WAT041

Root decomposition mass and nutrient data

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Variables
DataCode
  • Label:
  • Definition: dataset code
  • Type: Nominal
  • Missing values: None specified
RecType
  • Label:
  • Definition: Record type
  • Type: Physical quantity
  • Unit: number
  • Maximum: Not specified
  • Minimum: Not specified
  • Precision: Not specified
  • Missing values: None specified
RecYear
  • Label:
  • Definition: Year of sample collection
  • Type: Physical quantity
  • Unit: year
  • Maximum: Not specified
  • Minimum: Not specified
  • Precision: Not specified
  • Missing values: None specified
RecMonth
  • Label:
  • Definition: Month of sample collection
  • Type: Physical quantity
  • Unit: dimensionless
  • Maximum: Not specified
  • Minimum: Not specified
  • Precision: Not specified
  • Missing values: None specified
RecDay
  • Label:
  • Definition: Day of sample collection
  • Type: Physical quantity
  • Unit: dimensionless
  • Maximum: Not specified
  • Minimum: Not specified
  • Precision: Not specified
  • Missing values: None specified
Plot
  • Label:
  • Definition: Plot designation in 2017, after irrigation lines were shifted
  • Type: Physical quantity
  • Unit: number
  • Maximum: Not specified
  • Minimum: Not specified
  • Precision: Not specified
  • Missing values: None specified
Current
  • Label:
  • Definition: Treatment in 2017, after irrigation lines were shifted
  • Type: Nominal
  • Missing values: None specified
Historic
  • Label:
  • Definition: Previous treatment (1991-2016)
  • Type: Nominal
  • Missing values: None specified
Position
  • Label:
  • Definition: Landscape position in the upland or lowland
  • Type: Nominal
  • Missing values: None specified
Replicate
  • Label:
  • Definition: Irrigation line: (A) started in 1991, (B) started in 1993
  • Type: Nominal
  • Missing values: None specified
Replicate_ed
  • Label:
  • Definition: Irrigation lines as in "Replicate", but divided into uplands and lowlands to yield spatial "blocks"
  • Type: Nominal
  • Missing values: None specified
timept
  • Label:
  • Definition: Timepoint of data collection (1-6)
  • Type: Physical quantity
  • Unit: number
  • Maximum: Not specified
  • Minimum: Not specified
  • Precision: Not specified
  • Missing values: None specified
daysburied
  • Label:
  • Definition: Number of days bags were buried
  • Type: Physical quantity
  • Unit: number
  • Maximum: Not specified
  • Minimum: Not specified
  • Precision: Not specified
  • Missing values: None specified
yearburied
  • Label:
  • Definition: Number of years bags were buried
  • Type: Physical quantity
  • Unit: number
  • Maximum: Not specified
  • Minimum: Not specified
  • Precision: Not specified
  • Missing values: None specified
ovendry_wt
  • Label:
  • Definition: Mass of remaining litter in grams
  • Type: Physical quantity
  • Unit: gram
  • Maximum: Not specified
  • Minimum: Not specified
  • Precision: Not specified
  • Missing values: None specified
ovendry_wt_adj
  • Label:
  • Definition: Mass of remaining litter in grams, adjusted for soil contamination using the equations in the main text and in Norris et al. 2001
  • Type: Physical quantity
  • Unit: gram
  • Maximum: Not specified
  • Minimum: Not specified
  • Precision: Not specified
  • Missing values: None specified
prop_bag_litter
  • Label:
  • Definition: Proportion of bag weight that is litter, not soil, calculated using the equations in the main text and in Norris et al. 2001
  • Type: Physical quantity
  • Unit: dimensionless
  • Maximum: Not specified
  • Minimum: Not specified
  • Precision: Not specified
  • Missing values: None specified
mass_remain
  • Label:
  • Definition: Proportion of litter remaining (using adjusted oven dry weight)
  • Type: Physical quantity
  • Unit: percent
  • Maximum: Not specified
  • Minimum: Not specified
  • Precision: Not specified
  • Missing values: None specified
carbon
  • Label:
  • Definition: Carbon concentration of remaining litter (%)
  • Type: Physical quantity
  • Unit: percent
  • Maximum: Not specified
  • Minimum: Not specified
  • Precision: Not specified
  • Missing values: None specified
nitrogen
  • Label:
  • Definition: Nitrogen concentration of litter (%)
  • Type: Physical quantity
  • Unit: percent
  • Maximum: Not specified
  • Minimum: Not specified
  • Precision: Not specified
  • Missing values: None specified
nitrogen_adj
  • Label:
  • Definition: Nitrogen concentration of litter (%), adjusted for soil contamination using the equations in the main text and in Norris et al. 2001
  • Type: Physical quantity
  • Unit: percent
  • Maximum: Not specified
  • Minimum: Not specified
  • Precision: Not specified
  • Missing values: None specified
cnratio
  • Label:
  • Definition: Carbon concentration / nitrogen concentration (adjusted)
  • Type: Physical quantity
  • Unit: dimensionless
  • Maximum: Not specified
  • Minimum: Not specified
  • Precision: Not specified
  • Missing values: None specified
N_mass_remain
  • Label:
  • Definition: Percent of N from original bags remaining, calculated using the N concentrations of initial litter and remaining litter
  • Type: Physical quantity
  • Unit: percent
  • Maximum: Not specified
  • Minimum: Not specified
  • Precision: Not specified
  • Missing values: None specified
comments
  • Label:
  • Definition: Notes about collected bags, especially if there was a visible layer of fungi on the litter.
  • Type: Nominal
  • Missing values: None specified
Data Source Details

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