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SoDaH: the SOils DAta Harmonization database, an open-source synthesis of soil data from research networks, version 1.0

Journal Article · · Earth System Science Data (Online)
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  1. Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States); National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder, CO (United States)
  2. Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR (United States); Idaho State Univ., Pocatello, ID (United States)
  3. Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ (United States)
  4. Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR (United States)
  5. Univ. of Kansas, Lawrence, KS (United States)
  6. Univ. of Georgia, Athens, GA (United States)
  7. Univ. of California, Merced, CA (United States)
  8. Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States)
  9. Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
  10. Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States)
  11. Univ. of New Hampshire, Durham, NH (United States)
  12. Stanford Univ., CA (United States); Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
  13. Boise State Univ., ID (United States)
  14. National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder, CO (United States); Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO (United States)
  15. Univ. of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN (United States)
  16. Syracuse Univ., NY (United States)
  17. Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA (United States)
  18. Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM (United States)
  19. Northern Arizona Univ., Flagstaff, AZ (United States)
  20. Stanford Univ., CA (United States)
  21. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
  22. Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (United States)
  23. Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ (United States)
  24. Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
  25. National Ecological Observatory Network, Boulder, CO (United States)
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Data collected from research networks present opportunities to test theories and develop models about factors responsible for the long-term persistence and vulnerability of soil organic matter (SOM). Synthesizing datasets collected by different research networks presents opportunities to expand the ecological gradients and scientific breadth of information available for inquiry. Synthesizing these data is challenging, especially considering the legacy of soil data that have already been collected and an expansion of new network science initiatives. To facilitate this effort, here we present the SOils DAta Harmonization database (SoDaH; https://lter.github.io/som-website, last access: 22 December 2020), a flexible database designed to harmonize diverse SOM datasets from multiple research networks. SoDaH is built on several network science efforts in the United States, but the tools built for SoDaH aim to provide an open-access resource to facilitate synthesis of soil carbon data. Moreover, SoDaH allows for individual locations to contribute results from experimental manipulations, repeated measurements from long-term studies, and local- to regional-scale gradients across ecosystems or landscapes. Finally, we also provide data visualization and analysis tools that can be used to query and analyze the aggregated database. The SoDaH v1.0 dataset is archived and available at https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/9733f6b6d2ffd12bf126dc36a763e0b4 (Wieder et al., 2020).

Research Organization:
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA); National Science Foundation (NSF)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC52-07NA27344
OSTI ID:
1804282
Report Number(s):
LLNL-JRNL--821943; 1034015
Journal Information:
Earth System Science Data (Online), Journal Name: Earth System Science Data (Online) Journal Issue: 5 Vol. 13; ISSN 1866-3516
Publisher:
Copernicus PublicationsCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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