RCS011 [1]
Description:
Belowground Biomass and Tissue Quality
File upload:
RCS011.csv [2]Variables:
DataCode
- Label:
- Definition: Dataset Code
- Type: Nominal
- Missing values: None specified
RecType
- Label:
- Definition: Record Type
- Type: Physical quantity
- Unit: dimensionless
- Maximum: Not specified
- Minimum: Not specified
- Precision: Not specified
- Missing values: None specified
Age
- Label:
- Definition: Restoration age (number of growing seasons) of the field
- Type: Code list
- Codes:
- 0 = 0 growing season
- 1 = 1 growing season
- 3 = 3 growing seasons
- 7 = 7 growing seasons
- 15 = 15 growing seasons
- 26 = 26 growing seasons
- 35 = 35 growing seasons
- nat = native (never-tilled) prairie
- Missing values: None specified
Plot
- Label:
- Definition: Plot number- Each field contained 4 plots
- Type: Physical quantity
- Unit: dimensionless
- Maximum: 4
- Minimum: 1
- Precision: Not specified
- Missing values: None specified
Biomass
- Label:
- Definition: Belowground plant biomass, i.e. roots and rhizomes (g/m2)
- Type: Physical quantity
- Unit: gramsPerSquareMeter
- Maximum: Not specified
- Minimum: Not specified
- Precision: 0.01
- Missing values: None specified
Quality
- Label:
- Definition: C:N ratio of belowground plant biomass
- Type: Physical quantity
- Unit: dimensionless
- Maximum: Not specified
- Minimum: Not specified
- Precision: 0.01
- Missing values:
- blank = Missing or Not Measured
MBC
- Label:
- Definition: Microbial biomass C (μg/g soil)
- Type: Physical quantity
- Unit: millimolesPerGram
- Maximum: Not specified
- Minimum: Not specified
- Precision: 0.01
- Missing values: None specified
Surrogate
- Label:
- Definition: Surrogate recovery for correcting PLFA concentrations (%)
- Type: Physical quantity
- Unit: percent
- Maximum: Not specified
- Minimum: Not specified
- Precision: 0.01
- Missing values: None specified
PLFA
- Label:
- Definition: Total PLFA biomass (nmol/g soil)
- Type: Physical quantity
- Unit: millimolesPerGram
- Maximum: Not specified
- Minimum: Not specified
- Precision: 0.01
- Missing values: None specified
AMF
- Label:
- Definition: Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi PLFA biomass (nmol/g soil)
- Type: Physical quantity
- Unit: millimolesPerGram
- Maximum: Not specified
- Minimum: Not specified
- Precision: 0.01
- Missing values: None specified
FB
- Label:
- Definition: PLFA fungi:bacteria biomass ratio
- Type: Physical quantity
- Unit: dimensionless
- Maximum: Not specified
- Minimum: Not specified
- Precision: 0.01
- Missing values: None specified
Comments
- Label:
- Definition: Comments for the data
- Type: Nominal
- Missing values: None specified
Number of records:
32
