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Soil biogeochemical measurements from the Antarctic Specially Protected Area No. 131 (ASPA 131), McMurdo Dry Valleys Antarctica, December 2022
These data include soil biological properties (16S ASV community sequences, invertebrate community counts, ash-free dry mass, pigment concentrations), physical properties (location, gravimetric soil moisture, pH, electrical conductivity, remote detection of soil moisture change), chemical properties (dissolved inorganic nitrogen, extractable sulfate ions, extractable Cl ions) from soils collected within the Antarctic Specially Protected Area No. 131 (ASPA-131) surrounding Canada Stream in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica. Collection sites were associated with a warming event that occurred on March 22, 2022, and include the following remotely-sensed categories: V - validation sites representing arid soils with little soil moisture and minimal detectable change in liquid water, S - significant sites that had a significant increase in liquid water, and N - nonsignificant sites that had detectable moisture but did not experience a significant increase in liquid water. These data aid in our understanding of how landscape heterogeneity and hydroclimate variability influence soil biota communities sensitive to changes in liquid water availability in a polar desert.
North Temperate Lakes LTER: Patterns of Soil Phosphorus - Y Plot Analysis 2001
In natural soils, patterns of variance are generated by driving forces such as parent materials, climate, hydrology, relief, disturbance and biological activity. These drivers, operating at particular scales and interacting with other drivers across scales, create a complex pattern of soil variability. Human activity may change the natural patterns of variance by changing the scale at which the governing processes are operating or the governing processes that are dominant at a given scale. In the case of soils and phosphorus (P) concentrations, this may involve changing dominant forces from plant-soil interactions and parent material to fertilizer inputs. Here, we examine the hypothesis that human activity changes natural patterns of variance in soil P concentrations across several spatial scales. We measured soil P concentrations and variability at 3 distinct levels of analysis - among sites, within a field, and within a 10-m diameter plot - and across 4 management regimes - remnant prairie, lawns, cash grain farms, and dairies. Variance changed across scale in any one management regime and across management regimes at the same scale. Rescaling the pattern of P accumulation and variability has implications for managing P runoff from uplands. For sample sites on private property, specific site location information, such as GPS coordinates, is not included in these datasets. If you have a need for this information, please get in touch with the contact person listed above Number of sites: 30
North Temperate Lakes LTER: Patterns of Soil Phosphorus Across an Urbanizing Agricultural Landscape 2000 - 2001
Understanding the magnitude and location of soil phosphorus (P) accumulation in watersheds is a critical step toward managing runoff of this pollutant to aquatic ecosystems. Here, we examined the usefulness of urban-rural gradients (URGs), an emerging paradigm in urban ecology, for predicting soil P concentrations across a rapidly urbanizing agricultural watershed in southern Wisconsin. We compared several measures of an urban-rural gradient to predictors of soil P such as soil type, slope, topography, land use, land cover, and fertilizer and manure use. Most of the factors that were expected to drive differences in soil P concentrations were not found to be good predictors of soil P; while there were several significant relationships, most explained only a small proportion of the variation. There was a significant relationship between soil P concentration and each of the urban-rural gradients, but these relationships explained only a small amount of the variation in soil P concentrations. Soil P concentration, unlike some other ecosystem properties, is not well predicted by urban-rural gradients Additional Chemical Analyses: These additional analyses were done to provide comparisons to Bray-1 P. Specifically, we wanted to know whether, in Dane County, there was a consistent relationship between total P and Bray-1 P. For sample sites on private property, specific site location information, such as GPS coordinates, is not included in these datasets. If you have a need for this information, please get in touch with the contact person listed above Number of sites: 334; 20 of these sites with additional chem analyses
Soil nitrous oxide and carbon dioxide concentration data for Niwot Ridge and Loch Vale watershed, 1994.
Concentrations of carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide from snow-covered alpine soil surfaces were measured at Niwot Ridge. Six sites characterized by relatively shallow snowpacks were sampled in 1993. A total of 27 sites were sampled in 1994. Nine of the 1994 sites were located in the naturally shallow snowfield sampled in 1993, 9 sites were located in a formerly shallow snowpack site where snow depth was augmented by the construction of a 2.8-m high, 60-m long snowfence, and the 9 remaining sites were located in a naturally deep snowpack. Concentrations of N2O and CO2 at the soil surface were measured monthly from January until March, biweekly through April, and weekly until snowmelt was complete. Elevated levels of CO2 under the snowpack, suggesting microbial activity, were first observed under the shallow snowpacks in early March of 1993. N2O production under snow was first observed in April 1993, when soil temperatures had warmed above -3 degrees C. In 1994 shallow snowpack sites exhibited diminished and sporadic production of both CO2 and N2O, apparently due to the inconsistent snow cover compared to 1993. The snowfence sites exhibited elevated CO2 and N2O levels beginning in February 1994. Both CO2 and N2O fluxes from the snowfence site were similar to those measured under the naturally deep snowpack. These data suggest that the timing and depth of snow cover during the alpine winter control microbial activity by insulating soils from extreme air temperatures. To obtain a regional perspective on subnivean trace gas fluxes, both CO2 and N2O samples were determined at sites below treeline on Niwot Ridge and at Loch Vale in Rocky Mountain National Park.
Soil nitrous oxide and carbon dioxide flux data for Niwot Ridge and Loch Vale watershed, 1994.
Fluxes of carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide from snow-covered alpine soils were measured at Niwot Ridge. Six sites characterized by relatively shallow snowpacks were sampled in 1993. A total of 27 sites were sampled in 1994. Nine of the 1994 sites were located in the naturally shallow snowfield sampled in 1993, 9 sites were located in a formerly shallow snowpack site where snow depth was augmented by the construction of a 2.8-m high, 60-m long snowfence, and the 9 remaining sites were located in a naturally deep snowpack. Concentrations of N2O and CO2 at the soil surface were measured monthly from January until March, biweekly through April, and weekly until snowmelt was complete. Elevated levels of CO2 under the snowpack, suggesting microbial activity, were first observed under the shallow snowpacks in early March of 1993. N2O production under snow was first observed in April 1993, when soil temperatures had warmed above -3 degrees C. In 1994 shallow snowpack sites exhibited diminished and sporadic production of both CO2 and N2O, apparently due to the inconsistent snow cover compared to 1993. The snowfence sites exhibited increased CO2 and N2O fluxes beginning in February 1994. Both CO2 and N2O fluxes from the snowfence site were similar to those measured under the naturally deep snowpack. These data suggest that the timing and depth of snow cover during the alpine winter control microbial activity by insulating soils from extreme air temperatures. To obtain a regional perspective on subnivean trace gas fluxes, both CO2 and N2O samples were determined at sites below treeline on Niwot Ridge and at Loch Vale in Rocky Mountain National Park.
Shrub influence on soil moisture, nutrients, temperature and species composition, 2019 - 2020.
Shrubification, the expansion and densification of shrubs, is occurring in arctic and alpine zones across the globe (Myers-Smith et al., 2011). This alteration is primarily driven by warming temperatures (Elmendorf et al., 2012b, 2012a), and can have major consequences for the existing vegetation (Anthelme et al., 2007; Pajunen et al., 2011; Venn et al., 2014) and for nutrient pools (Sturm et al., 2005; DeMarco et al., 2014) due to the abiotic and biotic effects of shrubs. Shrubs accumulate snow which insulates the ground during the winter and provides more moisture later in the season (Liston et al., 2002). During the summer, shrubs provide shade and wind protection. Additionally, shrubs can increase the soil nitrogen (N) pool through their high input of plant material into the soil (DeMarco et al., 2014). These small-scale climatic and soil alterations have important consequences for plant community dynamics in the arctic and alpine. References: Anthelme, F., Villaret, J.-C., and Brun, J.-J., 2007: Shrub encroachment in the Alps gives rise to the convergence of sub-alpine communities on a regional scale. Journal of Vegetation Science, 18(3):355–362. DeMarco, J., Mack, M. C., and Bret-Harte, M. S., 2014: Effects of arctic shrub expansion on biophysical vs . biogeochemical drivers of litter decomposition. Ecological Society of America, 95(7):1861–1875. Elmendorf, S. C., Henry, G. H. R., Hollister, R. D., Björk, R. G., Bjorkman, A. D., Callaghan, T. V., Collier, L. S., Cooper, E. J., Cornelissen, J. H. C., Day, T. A., Fosaa, A. M., Gould, W. A., Grétarsdóttir, J., Harte, J., Hermanutz, L., Hik, D. S., Hofgaard, A., Jarrad, F., Jónsdóttir, I. S., Keuper, F., Klanderud, K., Klein, J. A., Koh, S., Kudo, G., Lang, S. I., Loewen, V., May, J. L., Mercado, J., Michelsen, A., Molau, U., Myers-Smith, I. H., Oberbauer, S. F., Pieper, S., Post, E., Rixen, C., Robinson, C. H., Schmidt, N. M., Shaver, G. R., Stenström, A., Tolvanen, A., Totland, Ø., Troxler, T., Wahren, C. H
GPS point locations of plots, subplots, itex subplots, transects and soil sensor in the black sand extended growing season experiment, 2018 - 2023.
As a result of climate change, the Rocky Mountain Front Range is experiencing warmer summers and earlier snowmelt. Due to the importance of snow for regulating soil temperature, growing season length, and available moisture in alpine ecosystems, even small shifts in the snow-free period could have large impacts. The focus of the Black Sand Extended Growing Season Length Experiment is to examine how terrain-related differences in climate exposure influence the way alpine habitats respond to climate change via earlier snowmelt. To simulate how climate exposure may affect plant communities, NWT LTER researchers established 5 experimental sites each containing a pair 10 x 40m rectangular plots. These sites include north and south facing aspects, subalpine and alpine tundra meadows in a range of hydrological conditions (e.g. dry meadows, moist meadows, wet meadows). We accelerated snowmelt in one plot of each block by adding chemically inert black sand, while keeping the second plot as an unmanipulated control; black sand was added to these plots after snow had naturally melted. This dataset includes geolocations of individual subplots and sensors within the experiment, measured in summer 2023.
SEV-LTER Mean - Variance Experiment Plains Grassland Soil Moisture and Temperature
We designed novel field experimental infrastructure to resolve the relative importance of changes in the climate mean and variance in regulating the structure and function of dryland populations, communities, and ecosystem processes. The Mean - Variance Experiment (MVE) adds three novel elements to prior designs that have manipulated interannual variance in climate in the field (Gherardi & Sala, 2013) by (i) determining interactive effects of mean and variance with a factorial design that crosses reduced mean with increased variance, (ii) studying multiple dryland biomes to compare their susceptibility to transition under interactive climate drivers, and (iii) adding stochasticity to our treatments to permit the antecedent effects that occur under natural climate variability. This new infrastructure enables direct experimental tests of the hypothesis that interactions between the mean and variance of precipitation will have larger ecological impacts than either the mean or variance in precipitation alone. A subset of plots have soil moisture and temperature sensors to evaluate treatment effectiveness by addressing, How do MVE manipulations alter the mean and variance in soil moisture and temperature? And How does micro-environmental variation among plots influence how treatments alter soil moisture profiles over three soil depths? This data package includes sensor data from the Mean x Variance experiment in the Plains grassland ecosystem at the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge, Socorro, NM, which is dominated by the grass species Bouteloua gracilis (blue grama).
SEV-LTER Mean x Variance Experiment Desert Grassland Soil Moisture and Temperature
We designed novel field experimental infrastructure to resolve the relative importance of changes in the climate mean and variance in regulating the structure and function of dryland populations, communities, and ecosystem processes. The Mean x Variance Experiment (MVE) adds three novel elements to prior designs (Gherardi & Sala 2013) that have manipulated interannual variance in climate in the field by (i) determining interactive effects of mean and variance with a factorial design that crosses a drier mean with increased (more) variance, (ii) studying multiple dryland ecosystem types to compare their susceptibility to transition under interactive climate drivers, and (iii) adding stochasticity to our treatments to permit the antecedent effects that occur under natural climate variability. This new infrastructure enables direct experimental tests of the hypothesis that interactions between the mean and variance of precipitation will have larger ecological impacts than either the mean or variance in precipitation alone. A subset of plots have soil moisture and temperature sensors to evaluate treatment effectiveness by addressing, How do MVE manipulations alter the mean and variance in soil moisture and temperature? And, how does micro-environmental variation among plots influence how much MVE treatments alter soil moisture profiles over three soil depths? This data package includes soil moisture and temperature sensor data from the Mean x Variance Climate experiment in the Desert grassland ecosystem at the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge, Socorro, NM.
Nitrogen addition alters plant competition directly more than indirectly through soil microbes.
Eutrophication, the excessive addition of nutrients to ecosystems, is a pervasive component of global environmental change that can alter community dynamics. Although nitrogen addition experiments have widely documented important declines in plant diversity and shifts in plant species composition, the underlying causes of these outcomes are widely debated. Nitrogen inputs may directly affect plant competition for light or soil water or may influence plant species indirectly by altering the composition of soil microbes. In a 28-year field nitrogen addition experiment, we tested whether nitrogen-induced changes to soil microbes could indirectly alter the outcome of competition between codominant foundation plant species. In the field, long-term addition of inorganic nitrogen slowed the competitive take-over of blue grama grass (Bouteloua gracilis) by black grama grass (B. eriopoda) and thereby stabilized the ecotone between two grassland ecosystems in central New Mexico, USA.
Erosion Rates, Soil Core Descriptions and Organic Matter on the Virginia Coast
These data include stratigraphic, organic matter, and organic carbon analyses of sediment cores, as well as values used to calculate the time-averaged carbon erosion rate for the central 10 islands of the Virginia Barrier Island chain.
Crab Burrows, Soil Nutrients, and Spartina alterniflora : organic content in Brownsville, VA 1992
The effect of Crab Burrows on Soil Nutrients and Spartina alterniflora by Winli Lin This study investigated the effects of fiddler crab (Uca pugnax) burrows on soil nutrients and the marsh grass Spartina alterniflora. Tall-form Spartina alterniflora (1-2m tall) typically dominates the marsh area that is flooded daily by tides. The short-form S. alterniflora(<0.5m tall) generally occupies the higher tidal heights (Bertness 1985). These short-form S. alterniflora are charterized by reduced soil drainage (Mendelssohn and Senecs 1980; Howes et al. 1981; Mendelssohn et al. 1981) and increased soil sulfide levels (King et al. 1982). From comparing control areas devoid of burrrows to those with burrows added, an increase in above-ground Spartina alterniflora production has been observed along with an increase of soil drainage rates and redox potential levels (Bertness 1985). Others have looked at how nutrient availability (Mendelssohn 1979) and sulfide accumulation (King et al. 1982; Howarth and Giblin 1983) may be the primary limiting factors controlling the production and success of S. alterniflora. While soil water movement has been shown to influence the soil parameters, (i.e., sulfide concentration and redox potential) that directly affect cordgrass production (King et al. 1982; Koch et al. 1990), little has been studied on how biotic modifications, such as crab burrows, mediate these physical factors. The Uca pugnax, are burrowing deposit-feeders that excavate and maintain semi-permanent burrows in the marsh surface. They have been found to not only oxygenate marsh soils (Howes et al 1981) and modify sediment meiofaunal abundance, they could also provide a suitable environment for continued burrowing and, as a byproduct, increase the marsh grass production and maintain the tall-form S. alterniflora. Uca pugnax, the mud fiddler crab, is the dominant form of crab seen in Brownsville, VA. Their burrows are primarily restricted to areas of tall-form S. alterniflora, due
Soil Moisture at Three Different Dune Elevations on the Hog Island, Northampton County, VA 2023
In summer 2023, soils were collected from swale grasslands (embryonic, Intermediate [swale 1] and Inland [swale 2]) on southern Hog Island. They were kept in plastic bags to quantify soil moisture content, which was determined by weighing cores to obtain water mass before and after drying at 105 deg_C for 72 hours. For details, see: Woods, N.N., Zinnert, J.C. Shrub encroachment of coastal ecosystems depends on dune elevation. Plant Ecol 225, 1047-1057 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11258-024-01453-2
CO2 NEE and ER + air and soil meteorological and climate parameters in Alpine grasslands, Gran Paradiso National Park, 2017-2019
<p>The dataset “fluxes_meteoclimate_nivolet_V0” is a .csv file reporting CO<sub>2</sub> Net Ecosystem Exchange (NEE) and Ecosystem Respiration (ER) measured at Nivolet Plain, Gran Paradiso National Park, Italy, in a high-altitude Alpine grassland environment (about 2700 m.a.s.l.) using the flux chamber method, during the 2017, 2018 and 2019 vegetative seasons (July-September), approximately twice a month. NEE is measured with a transparent flux chamber, while ER with a shaded chamber. Data represent the average values and the corresponding standard deviations obtained from four sites at different altitudes and geological substrate of the soil. Each average value is obtained as a mean over a set of more than 20 point-measures for each site and each sampling date. Flux data are complemented by measurements of soil temperature and volumetric water content, air temperature and moisture, and solar radiance. The four sites are characterized by soils developed over carbonates (carb) (45.500212N-7.152213E), glacial deposits (glac) (45.490167N-7.139916E), gneiss rocks (gnei) (45.490256N-7.149253E) and alluvial deposits (allu) (45.492656 N-7.146092 E).</p> <p>Other relevant shortcuts used in the .csv table: Std = Standard deviation; VWC% = Volumetric Water Content %. Meteorological and climate variables recorded during the measurement of NEE and during the measurement of ER bring the suffix NEE and ER respectively (es. Pressure_NEE (hPa) = atmospheric pressure recorded during the measurement of Net Ecosystem Exchange).</p>
Dataset of Soil hydraulic properties of Valle Telesina (Italy)
<p>The dataset contain a .xls file with the hydraulic properties georeferenced of 47 soil profiles of the "Valle Telesina (Italy) site, according to the parametrization of the van Genuthen-Mualem model (van Genuchten, 1980). Moreover a zipped folder with the shape files for the same area is provided.</p> <p>Following there is the description of the methods applied for the soil hydraulic characterization:</p> <p>Undisturbed soil samples were collected from the horizons using cylindrical steel samplers (8.5 cm diameter and 12.0 cm high). In the laboratory, the samples were saturated by slowly wetting from the bottom in order to remove all the air entrapped in the soil. The maximum water content,θ<sub>0</sub>, was gravimetrically determined and the saturated hydraulic conductivity, ks, was measured by a falling-head permeameter. Then, the Wind method was applied to simultaneously determine the water retention and hydraulic conductivity functions by subjecting the soil samples to an evaporation process. After sealing the bottom surface to prevent drainage, during the evaporation process - at appropriate pre-set time intervals - the weight of the whole sample and the pressure head at three different depths were measured. An iterative procedure was applied for estimating the water retention curve from these measurements. Then, the instantaneous profile method was applied to determine the unsaturated hydraulic conductivity. θr, θs, α and n parameters were derived by fitting the soil water retention data; under the restriction m=l−l/n, τ and k<sub>0</sub> parameters were derived by fitting the hydraulic conductivity data. Details of the tests and overall calculation procedures are described in Basile et al. (2012). The parameters obtained in the laboratory were then scaled to better reproduce the field behaviour by following the procedure suggested by Basile et al. (2003; 2006). Finally, for the few soils having considerable stone content, a correction of θs and k<sub>0</sub>, to take into account the stoniness, was applied (Coppola et al., 2013).</p> <p>References:</p> <p>Van Genuchten, M. T. (1980). A closed-form equation for predicting the hydraulic conductivity of unsaturated soils. Soil Science Society of America Journal, 44(5), 892–898.</p> <p>Basile, A., Buttafuoco, G., Mele, G., & Tedeschi, A. (2012). Complementary techniques to assess physical properties of a fine soil irrigated with saline water. Environmental Earth Sciences,66(7), 1797–1807.</p> <p>Basile, A., Ciollaro, G., & Coppola, A.(2003). Hysteresis in soil water characteristics as a key to interpreting comparisons of laboratory and field measuredhydraulic properties.Water Resources Research, 39(12).</p> <p>Basile, A., Coppola, A., De Mascellis, R., & Randazzo, L. (2006). Scaling approach to deduce field unsaturated hydraulic properties and behavior from laboratory measurements on small cores. Vadose Zone Journal,5(3), 1005–1016.</p> <p>Coppola, A., Dragonetti, G., Comegna, A., Lamaddalena, N., Caushi, B., Haikal, M., & Basile, A. (2013). Measuring and modeling water content in stony soils. Soil and Tillage Research,128, 9–22.</p>
Data for "Soil CO2 efflux errors are lognormally distributed - Implications and guidance."
<p>Soil CO2 flux data at site ES-LMa of four automatic chambers in the control-openLand-subplot for the period from 2015-11-10 to 2016-11-10.</p> <p>These data were used for the publication:</p> <p>Wutzler, et al. (2020) "Soil CO2 efflux errors are lognormally distributed - Implications and guidance." Geoscientific Instrumentation, Methods, and Data Systems</p> <p>Variables, units and description are found in the ReadmeDataDescription.csv file</p> <p> </p>
SM2RAIN test dataset with ASCAT and SMAP satellite soil moisture (plus ERA5 evapotranspiration)
<p>Are you looking for a research contest?</p> <p>Here [SM_RAIN_EVAP_1009points.nc] you can find a 5-year dataset at 1009 points in Italy, the United States, India and Australia of co-located in space and time:</p> <ol> <li>satellite soil moisture (from ASCAT, Wagner et al., 2013, doi:10.1127/0941-2948/2013/0399)</li> <li>evapotranspiration (from ERA5 reanalysis by ECMWF: https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/cdsapp#!/dataset/reanalysis-era5-single-levels?tab=overview)</li> <li>ground-based rainfall.</li> </ol> <p>and a ~3-year dataset at the same points including soil moisture from SMAP (April-2015 --> December 2017) [SM_SMAP_ASCAT_ETERA5_Pobs_1009opints.nc]</p> <p>The dataset can be used for testing multiple approaches for rainfall estimation from soil moisture, as done in <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=%23SM2RAIN">#SM2RAIN</a> algorithm (<a href="http://hydrology.irpi.cnr.it/research/sm2rain/">http://hydrology.irpi.cnr.it/research/sm2rain/</a>).</p> <p>The global dataset we have developed is available here: <a href="https://zenodo.org/record/3635932">https://zenodo.org/record/3635932</a></p> <p>The NetCDF file contains all the data, and the figures (PNG files) represent an example of the results we have obtained in the paper and of the new dataset including SMAP.</p> <p><strong>Reference</strong><br> Brocca, L., Filippucci, P., Hahn, S., Ciabatta, L., Massari, C., Camici, S., Schüller, L., Bojkov, B., Wagner, W. (2019). SM2RAIN-ASCAT (2007-2018): global daily satellite rainfall from ASCAT soil moisture. <em>Earth System Science Data</em>, 11, 1583–1601, doi:10.5194/essd-11-1583-2019. <a href="https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-11-1583-2019">https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-11-1583-2019</a>.</p> <p>For clarifications and support contact me at <a href="mailto:luca.brocca@irpi.cnr.it?subject=SM2RAIN%20test%20dataset">luca.brocca@irpi.cnr.it</a> </p>
iSDAsoil: soil clay content (USDA system) for Africa predicted at 30 m resolution at 0-20 and 20-50 cm depths
<p>iSDAsoil dataset soil clay content (USDA system) in % predicted at 30 m resolution for 0–20 and 20–50 cm depth intervals. Data has been projected in WGS84 coordinate system and compiled as <a href="https://gdal.org/drivers/raster/cog.html">COG</a>. Predictions have been generated using multi-scale Ensemble Machine Learning with 250 m (MODIS, PROBA-V, climatic variables and similar) and 30 m (DTM derivatives, Landsat, Sentinel-2 and similar) resolution covariates. For model training we use a pan-African compilations of soil samples and profiles (<a href="https://www.isda-africa.com/national-soil-services/">iSDA points</a>, <a href="https://www.isric.org/projects/africa-soil-profiles-database-afsp">AfSPDB</a>, <a href="https://landpotential.org/data-portal/">LandPKS</a>, and other national and regional soil datasets). Cite as:</p> <p>Hengl, T., Miller, M.A.E., Križan, J. <em>et al.</em> African soil properties and nutrients mapped at 30 m spatial resolution using two-scale ensemble machine learning. <em>Sci Rep</em> <strong>11, </strong>6130 (2021). <a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-85639-y">https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-85639-y</a></p> <p>To open the maps in QGIS and/or directly compute with them, please use the <a href="https://gitlab.com/openlandmap/africa-soil-and-agronomy-data-cube"><strong>Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFF version</strong></a>.</p> <p>Layer description:</p> <ul> <li>sol_clay_tot_psa_m_30m_*..*cm_2001..2017_v0.13_wgs84.tif = predicted soil clay content mean value,</li> <li>sol_clay_tot_psa_md_30m_*..*cm_2001..2017_v0.13_wgs84.tif = predicted soil clay content (prediction) errors,</li> </ul> <p>Model errors were derived using bootstrapping: md is derived as standard deviation of individual learners from 5-fold cross-validation (using spatial blocking). The model 5-fold cross-validation (<a href="https://mlr.mlr-org.com/reference/makeStackedLearner.html">mlr::makeStackedLearner</a>) for this variable indicates:</p> <pre><code>Variable: clay_tot_psa R-square: 0.746 Fitted values sd: 16.5 RMSE: 9.63 Random forest model: Call: stats::lm(formula = f, data = d) Residuals: Min 1Q Median 3Q Max -75.803 -4.512 -0.178 3.748 82.146 Coefficients: Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|) (Intercept) 4.494652 8.914671 0.504 0.61413 regr.ranger 1.076957 0.003611 298.210 < 2e-16 *** regr.xgboost -0.012617 0.004678 -2.697 0.00699 ** regr.cubist 0.030730 0.003930 7.820 5.32e-15 *** regr.nnet -0.238376 0.365390 -0.652 0.51415 regr.cvglmnet -0.044547 0.004379 -10.174 < 2e-16 *** --- Signif. codes: 0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1 Residual standard error: 9.629 on 122269 degrees of freedom Multiple R-squared: 0.7458, Adjusted R-squared: 0.7458 F-statistic: 7.175e+04 on 5 and 122269 DF, p-value: < 2.2e-16</code></pre> <p>To submit an issue or request support please visit <a href="https://isda-africa.com/isdasoil"><strong>https://isda-africa.com/isdasoil</strong></a></p>
iSDAsoil: soil extractable Iron for Africa predicted at 30 m resolution at 0-20 and 20-50 cm depths
<p>iSDAsoil dataset soil extractable Iron (Fe) log-transformed predicted at 30 m resolution for 0–20 and 20–50 cm depth intervals. Data has been projected in WGS84 coordinate system and compiled as <a href="https://gdal.org/drivers/raster/cog.html">COG</a>. Predictions have been generated using multi-scale Ensemble Machine Learning with 250 m (MODIS, PROBA-V, climatic variables and similar) and 30 m (DTM derivatives, Landsat, Sentinel-2 and similar) resolution covariates. For model training we use a pan-African compilations of soil samples and profiles (<a href="https://www.isda-africa.com/national-soil-services/">iSDA points</a>, <a href="https://www.isric.org/projects/africa-soil-profiles-database-afsp">AfSPDB</a>, and other national and regional soil datasets). Cite as:</p> <p>Hengl, T., Miller, M.A.E., Križan, J. <em>et al.</em> African soil properties and nutrients mapped at 30 m spatial resolution using two-scale ensemble machine learning. <em>Sci Rep</em> <strong>11, </strong>6130 (2021). <a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-85639-y">https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-85639-y</a></p> <p>To open the maps in QGIS and/or directly compute with them, please use the <a href="https://gitlab.com/openlandmap/africa-soil-and-agronomy-data-cube"><strong>Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFF version</strong></a>.</p> <p>Layer description:</p> <ul> <li>sol_log.fe_mehlich3_m_30m_*..*cm_2001..2017_v0.13_wgs84.tif = predicted soil extractable Iron mean value,</li> <li>sol_log.fe_mehlich3_md_30m_*..*cm_2001..2017_v0.13_wgs84.tif = predicted soil extractable Iron model (prediction) errors,</li> </ul> <p>Model errors were derived using bootstrapping: md is derived as standard deviation of individual learners from 5-fold cross-validation (using spatial blocking). The model 5-fold cross-validation (<a href="https://mlr.mlr-org.com/reference/makeStackedLearner.html">mlr::makeStackedLearner</a>) for this variable indicates:</p> <pre><code>Variable: log.fe_mehlich3 R-square: 0.817 Fitted values sd: 0.497 RMSE: 0.235 Random forest model: Call: stats::lm(formula = f, data = d) Residuals: Min 1Q Median 3Q Max -4.0165 -0.1312 -0.0082 0.1238 2.5077 Coefficients: Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|) (Intercept) 3.913522 1.869721 2.093 0.036344 * regr.ranger 0.856893 0.007912 108.306 < 2e-16 *** regr.xgboost 0.027856 0.007738 3.600 0.000318 *** regr.cubist 0.146095 0.007230 20.207 < 2e-16 *** regr.nnet -0.879348 0.402810 -2.183 0.029037 * regr.cvglmnet 0.005610 0.004470 1.255 0.209415 --- Signif. codes: 0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1 Residual standard error: 0.2349 on 57526 degrees of freedom Multiple R-squared: 0.8173, Adjusted R-squared: 0.8173 F-statistic: 5.148e+04 on 5 and 57526 DF, p-value: < 2.2e-16</code></pre> <p>To back-transform values (y) to ppm use the following formula:</p> <pre><code>ppm = expm1( y / 10 )</code></pre> <p>To submit an issue or request support please visit <a href="https://isda-africa.com/isdasoil"><strong>https://isda-africa.com/isdasoil</strong></a></p>
iSDAsoil: soil extractable Calcium for Africa predicted at 30 m resolution at 0-20 and 20-50 cm depths
<p>iSDAsoil dataset soil extractable Calcium log-transformed predicted at 30 m resolution for 0–20 and 20–50 cm depth intervals. Data has been projected in WGS84 coordinate system and compiled as <a href="https://gdal.org/drivers/raster/cog.html">COG</a>. Predictions have been generated using multi-scale Ensemble Machine Learning with 250 m (MODIS, PROBA-V, climatic variables and similar) and 30 m (DTM derivatives, Landsat, Sentinel-2 and similar) resolution covariates. For model training we use a pan-African compilations of soil samples and profiles (<a href="https://www.isda-africa.com/national-soil-services/">iSDA points</a>, <a href="https://www.isric.org/projects/africa-soil-profiles-database-afsp">AfSPDB</a>, and other national and regional soil datasets). Cite as:</p> <p>Hengl, T., Miller, M.A.E., Križan, J. <em>et al.</em> African soil properties and nutrients mapped at 30 m spatial resolution using two-scale ensemble machine learning. <em>Sci Rep</em> <strong>11, </strong>6130 (2021). <a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-85639-y">https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-85639-y</a></p> <p>To open the maps in QGIS and/or directly compute with them, please use the <a href="https://gitlab.com/openlandmap/africa-soil-and-agronomy-data-cube"><strong>Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFF version</strong></a>.</p> <p>Layer description:</p> <ul> <li>sol_log.ca_mehlich3_m_30m_*..*cm_2001..2017_v0.13_wgs84.tif = predicted soil extractable Calcium mean value,</li> <li>sol_log.ca_mehlich3_md_30m_*..*cm_2001..2017_v0.13_wgs84.tif = predicted soil extractable Calcium model (prediction) errors,</li> </ul> <p>Model errors were derived using bootstrapping: md is derived as standard deviation of individual learners from 5-fold cross-validation (using spatial blocking). The model 5-fold cross-validation (<a href="https://mlr.mlr-org.com/reference/makeStackedLearner.html">mlr::makeStackedLearner</a>) for this variable indicates:</p> <pre><code>Variable: log.ca_mehlich3 R-square: 0.84 Fitted values sd: 1.24 RMSE: 0.543 Random forest model: Call: stats::lm(formula = f, data = d) Residuals: Min 1Q Median 3Q Max -6.0376 -0.2577 0.0076 0.2756 5.3825 Coefficients: Estimate Std. Error t value Pr(>|t|) (Intercept) 5.737959 3.850998 1.490 0.136 regr.ranger 1.054018 0.003175 331.978 < 2e-16 *** regr.xgboost -0.030930 0.003939 -7.853 4.1e-15 *** regr.cubist 0.061829 0.003561 17.364 < 2e-16 *** regr.nnet -0.855297 0.561006 -1.525 0.127 regr.cvglmnet -0.065040 0.003225 -20.166 < 2e-16 *** --- Signif. codes: 0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1 Residual standard error: 0.5428 on 144593 degrees of freedom Multiple R-squared: 0.8403, Adjusted R-squared: 0.8402 F-statistic: 1.521e+05 on 5 and 144593 DF, p-value: < 2.2e-16 </code></pre> <p>To back-transform values (y) to ppm use the following formula:</p> <pre><code>ppm = expm1( y / 10 )</code></pre> <p>To submit an issue or request support please visit <a href="https://isda-africa.com/isdasoil"><strong>https://isda-africa.com/isdasoil</strong></a></p>
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