Interrelationships among methods of estimating microbial biomass across multiple soil orders and biomes: Supporting data

Buell, Zachary W; Dabbs, Jennifer; Steinweg, J. M.; Phillips, Jana R.; Kluber, Laurel A.; Yang, Zamin K.; Miller, R. M.; Gutknecht, Jessica L.M.; Schadt, Christopher W.; Mayes, Melanie A

doi:10.25581/ornlsfa.031/2274949

Title: Interrelationships among methods of estimating microbial biomass across multiple soil orders and biomes: Supporting data

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This dataset contains environmental and soil measurements from 18 different locations across the globe including the SPRUCE experiment site and multiple sampling depths, with 17 of these locations having samples processed between 2012-2013 and one location (SPRUCE) collected in 2021 and processed in 2022. Environmental measurements include: mean annual temperature, mean annual precipitation, and 30-day presampling temperature. Soil physicochemical measurements include: particle size analysis (PSA), pH, gravimetric moisture content (GMC), bulk soil carbon (C) and nitrogen (N), total organic C and N, C:N ratio, and dissolved organic carbon (DOC). Soil biological measurements include: microbial biomass carbon (MBC) measured through chloroform fumigation extraction (CFE), gene copy numbers (GCN) of bacteria, fungi, and archaea measured through quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR), DNA yield measured through Nanodrop spectrophotometry, and phospholipid fatty acids (PLFA) of bacteria and fungi measured through PLFA analysis. This data set contains one file in comma separate (*.csv) format.

Authors:

; Dabbs, Jennifer; Steinweg, J. M.;

; Kluber, Laurel A.; Yang, Zamin K.;

;

University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN (United States); Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Tetra Tech, Inc., Pasadena, CA (United States)
Roanoke College
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN (United States)

Publication Date:: Sun Dec 31 23:00:00 EST 2023

DOE Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725

Research Org.:: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER). Biological Systems Science (BSS)

Subject:: C:N ratio; Nanodrop spectrophotometry; PLFA; Particle size analysis; bulk soil carbon; bulk soil nitrogen; chloroform fumigation extraction; dissolved organic carbon (DOC); gene copy numbers; gravimetric moisture content; microbial biomass carbon; pH; qPCR; total organic C; total organic N

OSTI Identifier:: 2274949

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.25581/ornlsfa.031/2274949

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                    Buell, Zachary W, Dabbs, Jennifer, Steinweg, J. M., Phillips, Jana R., Kluber, Laurel A., Yang, Zamin K., Miller, R. M., Gutknecht, Jessica L.M., Schadt, Christopher W., and Mayes, Melanie A. Interrelationships among methods of estimating microbial biomass across multiple soil orders and biomes: Supporting data.  United States: N. p., 2023. 
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                    Buell, Zachary W, Dabbs, Jennifer, Steinweg, J. M., Phillips, Jana R., Kluber, Laurel A., Yang, Zamin K., Miller, R. M., Gutknecht, Jessica L.M., Schadt, Christopher W., & Mayes, Melanie A. Interrelationships among methods of estimating microbial biomass across multiple soil orders and biomes: Supporting data.  United States.  doi:https://doi.org/10.25581/ornlsfa.031/2274949

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                    Buell, Zachary W, Dabbs, Jennifer, Steinweg, J. M., Phillips, Jana R., Kluber, Laurel A., Yang, Zamin K., Miller, R. M., Gutknecht, Jessica L.M., Schadt, Christopher W., and Mayes, Melanie A. 2023.  
"Interrelationships among methods of estimating microbial biomass across multiple soil orders and biomes: Supporting data".  United States.  doi:https://doi.org/10.25581/ornlsfa.031/2274949.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/2274949. Pub date:Sun Dec 31 23:00:00 EST 2023

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  title        = {Interrelationships among methods of estimating microbial biomass across multiple soil orders and biomes: Supporting data},

  author       = {Buell, Zachary W and Dabbs, Jennifer and Steinweg, J. M. and Phillips, Jana R. and Kluber, Laurel A. and Yang, Zamin K. and Miller, R. M. and Gutknecht, Jessica L.M. and Schadt, Christopher W. and Mayes, Melanie A},

  abstractNote = {This dataset contains environmental and soil measurements from 18 different locations across the globe including the SPRUCE experiment site and multiple sampling depths, with 17 of these locations having samples processed between 2012-2013 and one location (SPRUCE) collected in 2021 and processed in 2022. Environmental measurements include: mean annual temperature, mean annual precipitation, and 30-day presampling temperature. Soil physicochemical measurements include: particle size analysis (PSA), pH, gravimetric moisture content (GMC), bulk soil carbon (C) and nitrogen (N), total organic C and N, C:N ratio, and dissolved organic carbon (DOC). Soil biological measurements include: microbial biomass carbon (MBC) measured through chloroform fumigation extraction (CFE), gene copy numbers (GCN) of bacteria, fungi, and archaea measured through quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR), DNA yield measured through Nanodrop spectrophotometry, and phospholipid fatty acids (PLFA) of bacteria and fungi measured through PLFA analysis. This data set contains one file in comma separate (*.csv) format.},

  doi          = {10.25581/ornlsfa.031/2274949},

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