WAT041 [1]
Description:
Root decomposition mass and nutrient data
File upload:

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
Number of records:
426