NGEE Arctic Plant Traits: Fine Roots, Kougarok Road Mile Marker 64, Seward Peninsula, Alaska, 2016
Abstract
Soil cores were collected from twelve vegetation biomass plots at the Kougarok hillslope in late July of 2016. The sampled plots were located across six ecotypes present at this site (n=2 replicates per ecotype). Soil cores were separated into depth intervals in the field and frozen for transport to Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Data package contains one *.csv and one *.pdf.Laboratory sample processing of these soils generated depth-specific data on soil properties as well as fine root biomass, length, %C, %N, delta13C, and delta15N. Only live fine roots were analyzed. Fine roots were not separated by species or plant functional type.The Next-Generation Ecosystem Experiments: Arctic (NGEE Arctic), a research effort to reduce uncertainty in Earth System Models by developing a predictive understanding of carbon-rich Arctic ecosystems and feedbacks to climate. NGEE Arctic was supported by the Department of Energy’s Office of Biological and Environmental Research.The NGEE Arctic project had two field research sites: 1) located within the Arctic polygonal tundra coastal region on the Barrow Environmental Observatory (BEO) and the North Slope near Utqiagvik (Barrow), Alaska and 2) multiple areas on the discontinuous permafrost region of the Seward Peninsula north of Nome, Alaska.Through observations, experiments, and synthesis with existing datasets,more »
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- ORNL
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- https://doi.org/10.5440/1735941; NGA240
- Research Org.:
- Next Generation Ecosystems Experiment - Arctic, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (US)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- U.S. DOE > Office of Science > Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
- Collaborations:
- ORNL
- Subject:
- 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > VEGETATION; EARTH SCIENCE > BIOSPHERE > VEGETATION > PLANT CHARACTERISTICS; EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > SOILS; EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > SOILS > CARBON; EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > SOILS > NITROGEN; fine roots
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1735941
- DOI:
- https://doi.org/10.5440/1735941
Citation Formats
Salmon, Verity, Iversen, Colleen, and Childs, Joanne. NGEE Arctic Plant Traits: Fine Roots, Kougarok Road Mile Marker 64, Seward Peninsula, Alaska, 2016. United States: N. p., 2021.
Web. doi:10.5440/1735941.
Salmon, Verity, Iversen, Colleen, & Childs, Joanne. NGEE Arctic Plant Traits: Fine Roots, Kougarok Road Mile Marker 64, Seward Peninsula, Alaska, 2016. United States. doi:https://doi.org/10.5440/1735941
Salmon, Verity, Iversen, Colleen, and Childs, Joanne. 2021.
"NGEE Arctic Plant Traits: Fine Roots, Kougarok Road Mile Marker 64, Seward Peninsula, Alaska, 2016". United States. doi:https://doi.org/10.5440/1735941. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1735941. Pub date:Thu Jan 07 04:00:00 UTC 2021
@article{osti_1735941,
title = {NGEE Arctic Plant Traits: Fine Roots, Kougarok Road Mile Marker 64, Seward Peninsula, Alaska, 2016},
author = {Salmon, Verity and Iversen, Colleen and Childs, Joanne},
abstractNote = {Soil cores were collected from twelve vegetation biomass plots at the Kougarok hillslope in late July of 2016. The sampled plots were located across six ecotypes present at this site (n=2 replicates per ecotype). Soil cores were separated into depth intervals in the field and frozen for transport to Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Data package contains one *.csv and one *.pdf.Laboratory sample processing of these soils generated depth-specific data on soil properties as well as fine root biomass, length, %C, %N, delta13C, and delta15N. Only live fine roots were analyzed. Fine roots were not separated by species or plant functional type.The Next-Generation Ecosystem Experiments: Arctic (NGEE Arctic), a research effort to reduce uncertainty in Earth System Models by developing a predictive understanding of carbon-rich Arctic ecosystems and feedbacks to climate. NGEE Arctic was supported by the Department of Energy’s Office of Biological and Environmental Research.The NGEE Arctic project had two field research sites: 1) located within the Arctic polygonal tundra coastal region on the Barrow Environmental Observatory (BEO) and the North Slope near Utqiagvik (Barrow), Alaska and 2) multiple areas on the discontinuous permafrost region of the Seward Peninsula north of Nome, Alaska.Through observations, experiments, and synthesis with existing datasets, NGEE Arctic provided an enhanced knowledge base for multi-scale modeling and contributed to improved process representation at global pan-Arctic scales within the Department of Energy’s Earth system Model (the Energy Exascale Earth System Model, or E3SM), and specifically within the E3SM Land Model component (ELM).},
doi = {10.5440/1735941},
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year = {Thu Jan 07 04:00:00 UTC 2021},
month = {Thu Jan 07 04:00:00 UTC 2021}
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