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Fire Self-Limitation (FiSL) Experiment: Quantifying Wildfire Carbon Combustion Losses in boreal Deciduous and Mixed Forests in Interior Alaska and the Boreal Cordillera IV: Organic Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Content from Organic Soil Samples 2022
This dataset contains lab-quantified (and some field-measured) characteristics for post-fire residual organic soil samples collected in the field for plots in 8 fire scars in Interior Alaska and the Yukon. Data was collected in the summer of 2022. Fire scars sampled included Shovel Creek (2019), Aggie Creek (2015), Hess Creek (2019), Baker (2015), Munson Creek (2021), Isom Creek (2020), 2019MA014 (2019), and 2019BC005 (2019). Lab analyses were conducted in summer and fall of 2022 at UAF and NAU.
Fire Self-Limitation (FiSL) Experiment: Quantifying Wildfire Carbon Combustion Losses in boreal Deciduous and Mixed Forests in Interior Alaska and the Boreal Cordillera V: Organic Soil Depth 2022
This dataset contains field-measured characteristics for post-fire residual organic soil samples and for additional organic soil depths collected in the field for plots in 8 fire scars in Interior Alaska and the Yukon. Data was collected in the summer of 2022. Fire scars sampled included Shovel Creek (2019), Aggie Creek (2015), Hess Creek (2019), Baker (2015), Munson Creek (2021), Isom Creek (2020), 2019MA014 (2019), and 2019BC005 (2019).
Fire Self-Limitation (FiSL) Experiment: Quantifying Wildfire Carbon Combustion Losses in boreal Deciduous and Mixed Forests in Interior Alaska and the Boreal Cordillera VI: Mineral Soil Sample and pH Data 2022
This dataset contains field- and lab-measured characteristics for post-fire mineral soil samples collected in the field for plots in 8 fire scars in Interior Alaska and the Yukon. Data was collected in the summer of 2022. Fire scars sampled included Shovel Creek (2019), Aggie Creek (2015), Hess Creek (2019), Baker (2015), Munson Creek (2021), Isom Creek (2020), 2019MA014 (2019), and 2019BC005 (2019). Lab analyses were conducted in fall of 2022 at NAU.
Data: Boreal forest soil carbon fluxes one year after a wildfire: Effects of burn severity and management
<p>2018 Boreal forest fires in Sweden: Measurements of soil CO2 and CH4 fluxes, soil microclimate and nutrient content during the first growing season after a wildfire, from forest sites impacted by different fire severity (tree mortality) and post-fire management.</p> <p> </p> <p>Data used in: Boreal forest soil carbon fluxes one year after a wildfire: Effects of burn severity and management; Julia Kelly, Theresa S. Ibáñez, Cristina Santín, Stefan H. Doerr, Marie-Charlotte Nilsson, Thomas Holst, Anders Lindroth, Natascha Kljun; Global Change Biology, 27, 4181-4195, https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15721</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p>
Seasonal controls override forest harvesting effects on the composition of dissolved organic matter mobilized from boreal forest soil organic horizons
<p>Dataset comprised of nutrient fluxes (DOC, TDN, NH4, TDN and SRP), optical parameters related to DOM composition (SUVA, spectral slopes and slope ratio), pH, and other nutrient and elemental ratios for passive pan lysimeters installed across terrestrial sites in Pynn's Brook, Newfoundland.</p>
Short-term effects of biochar on soil CO2 efflux in boreal Scots pine forests
<p>This dataset includes all the data we collected at the first summer after biochar application in boreal forests. Our paper“ the effect of biochar on soil CO<sub>2</sub> efflux in boreal forests“ now is under review in Annals of Forest Science. Biochar prepared at two reaction temperatures was applied at three rates (including non-amended controls). During the first year after treatment, efflux increased with higher rates of biochar, but the reaction temperature had no effect. o explain char effects on efflux, soil moisture and temperature were also added to the model testing treatment effects. These environmental variables explained more of the variation in efflux and caused treatment to no longer have a significant effect. Based on this result, we concluded that soil temperature explains the effect of char on efflux.</p>
Short-term effects of biochar on soil CO2 efflux in boreal Scots pine forests
<p>This dataset includes all the data we collected at the first summer after biochar application in boreal forests. Our paper“ the effect of biochar on soil CO<sub>2</sub> efflux in boreal forests“ now is under review in Annals of Forest Science. Biochar prepared at two reaction temperatures was applied at three rates (including non-amended controls). During the first year after treatment, efflux increased with higher rates of biochar, but the reaction temperature had no effect. o explain char effects on efflux, soil moisture and temperature were also added to the model testing treatment effects. These environmental variables explained more of the variation in efflux and caused treatment to no longer have a significant effect. Based on this result, we concluded that soil temperature explains the effect of char on efflux.</p>
Dataset for "Soil fluxes of carbonyl sulfide (COS), carbon monoxide, and carbon dioxide in a boreal forest in southern Finland"
<p>This is the dataset (ver. 2017.02.13) for the manuscript "Soil fluxes of carbonyl sulfide (COS), carbon monoxide, and carbon dioxide in a boreal forest in southern Finland" submitted to the journal <em>Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics</em>.</p>
Radiocarbon Isotopic Disequilibrium Shows Little Incorporation of New Carbon in Mineral Soils of a Boreal Forest Ecosystem
<p><span>Files for the manuscript “</span><span>Radiocarbon Isotopic Disequilibrium Shows Little Incorporation of New Carbon in Soils and Fast Cycling of a </span><span>Boreal</span><span> Forest Ecosystem”</span></p> <p> </p> <p>1. “Raw_Data” folder contains the files in .xlsx:</p> <p>- Lab_Atmospheric_Samples: D14C results from ambient air at the sampled heights.</p> <p>- Lab_Soil_Respiration: D14C results with date and integration time for the FFSR sampling<span> </span>campaign.</p> <p>- Lab_Solid_Samples:<span> </span>D14C and TOC results for soil, vegetation, roots, fungi and incubation samples.</p>
Microbial community composition of earthworm-invaded and earthworm-free soils of the Canadian boreal forest
<p>Earthworm invasion in North American forests has the potential to greatly impact soil microbiomes by altering soil physicochemical properties. We characterized and compared microbial communities of earthworm-invaded and non-invaded soils in previously described sites across three major soil types found in the Canadian boreal forest using phospholipid fatty acid (PLFA) analysis and metabarcoding of the 16S rRNA gene (bacteria and archaea) and ITS2 region (fungi).</p>
Microbial community composition of earthworm-invaded and earthworm-free soils of the Canadian boreal forest
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Spatial patterns of understory vegetation and soil in an Alaskan upland boreal forest fire chronosequence. Three sites located in Delta Junction Alaska. Soil sampled during summer 2007
In this study we used geostatistics to characterize the spatial heterogeneity of soil carbon and nitrogen pools, microbial respiration, microbial biomass, nitrogen mineralization, soil moisture, soil pH, depth of organic horizon and forest floor covers and understory vegetation abundances in three sites (1999, 1987 and 1920 wildfires) of a boreal forest chronosequence of Interior Alaska (near Delta Junction). Soil sampling and vegetation measurements occured during summer 2007.
Far northeastern Siberia boreal forest data: Mean soil temperature within experimental burn plots
This dataset includes soil temperature (10-cm depth) during July-Sept 2013 within experimental burn plots in far northeastern Cherskii. Data have not been published.
Far northeastern Siberia boreal forest data: Soil horizon and thaw depths across a larch forest density gradient
This dataset includes soil horizon and thaw depths within four larch stands near Cherskii, Siberia. Data have not been published.
Soil nitrogen cycling in a boreal hardwood forest in relation to the phenolic compound bearing species Ledum palustre
Ledum palustre (Labrador tea) is a late successional evergreen shrub widely distributed in boreal ecosystems that readily leaches high concentrations of soluble phenolic compounds into water. We selected this species in order to study whether leaf leachates could be responsible for the effects of plant canopy on N cycling under natural conditions. Organic matter content, soil respiration and net N mineralization were measured in organic and mineral soil horizons and gross N mineralization was also measured in mineral soils sampled underneath L. palustre in a hardwood forest dominated by Populus tremuloides and Betula neoalaskana. Soils were amended with L. palustre litter leachates and incubated in the laboratory. Because mineral soil is also influenced by the overlying organic horizon we also characterized some simple indices of the organic horizon carbon quality (lignin, cellulose and condensed tannins) to look for differences in likely decomposability. Our objectives were i) to determine whether L. palustre presence and L. palustre leachates addition changed soil N availability, and ii) to determine the specific N cycling processes that were affected, including changes in mineralization, nitrification or immobilization. We wanted to know whether L. palustre leachates could be a mechanism through which plant presence would impact N cycling.
Links between boreal forest management, soil fungal communities and belowground carbon sequestration
<p>Forest management has a potential to alter belowground carbon storage. However, the underlying mechanisms, and the relative importance of carbon input and decomposition in regulation of soil carbon dynamics are poorly understood.</p> <p>We examined whether interactive effects of forest fertilization and thinning on carbon stocks in the topsoil of boreal forests were linked to changes in fungal community composition, biomass, and enzyme activities, in a long-term fertilization and thinning experiment distributed across 29 Pinus sylvestris forests along a 1300 km latitudinal transect in Sweden.</p> <p>Nitrogen fertilization increased fungal biomass, particularly towards the north and mainly by promoting root associated Ascomycetes, but the response was moderated by thinning. Fungal biomass correlated positively with carbon stocks in the organic topsoil. However, ectomycorrhizal Cortinarius species were reduced in abundance by fertilization and correlated negatively with carbon stocks.</p> <p>Plausibly, increased soil carbon stocks after fertilization are linked to increased input of carbon in the form of root-associated mycelium combined with loss of ectomycorrhizal decomposers within the genus Cortinarius. These fungal responses to fertilization may mediate a natural climate solution by promoting carbon sequestration in the organic topsoil, but the effect of fertilization may also be undesired from a biodiversity perspective.</p>
Ericaceous dwarf shrubs contribute a significant but drought-sensitive fraction of soil respiration in a boreal pine forest
<p><span>Boreal forests often have a dense understory of ericaceous dwarf shrubs with ecological adaptations that contrast those of the canopy-forming trees. It is therefore important to quantify contributions by understory shrubs to ecosystem processes and disentangle shrub- and tree-driven responses, and their interactions, to climatic factors. </span><span>We quantified soil respiration driven by the pine canopy and the ericaceous shrub understory over three years, using a factorial pine root-exclusion and shrub-removal experiment in a mature <em>Pinus sylvestris</em> forest. Soil temperature and moisture-related responses of respiration attributed to autotrophic (shrubs, pine roots) and heterotrophs were compared. Additionally, we assessed effects of interactions between these functional groups on soil nitrogen availability and respiration. </span><span>Understory shrubs accounted for </span><span>22 ± 10% of total autotrophic respiration, reflecting the ericaceous proportion of fine root production in the ecosystem. Heterotrophic respiration constituted about half of total soil respiration. Shrub-driven respiration was more susceptible to drought than heterotrophic- and pine-driven autotrophic respiration. While the respiration attributed to canopy and understory remained additive, indicating no competitive release, </span><span>the plant guilds competed for inorganic N. </span><span>Ericaceous understory shrubs accounted for a small, yet significant, share of total growing season soil respiration. Overlooking understory respiration may lead to erroneous partitioning and modelling of soil respiration mediated by functional guilds with contrasting responses to soil temperature and moisture. A higher share of activity of both heterotrophs and pine roots, under drought conditions, could have important implications for soil organic matter accumulation and decomposition as the climate changes.</span></p>
High-level nitrogen additions accelerate soil respiration reduction over time in a boreal forest
<p>Increased nitrogen (N) inputs are widely recognized to reduce soil respiration (Rs), but how N deposition affects the temporal dynamics of Rs remains unclear. Using a decade-long fertilization experiment in a boreal larch forest (Larix gmelini) in northeast China, we found that the effects of N additions on Rs showed a temporal shift from a positive effect in the short-term (increased by 8% on average in the first year) to a negative effect over the longer term (decreased by 21% on average in the eleventh year). The rates of decrease in Rs for the higher N-levels were almost twice as high as those of the low N-level. Our results suggest that the reduction in Rs in response to increased N input is accelerated by high-level N additions, and experimental high N applications are likely to overestimate the contribution of N deposition to soil carbon sequestration in boreal forest.</p>
Data for "Mineral soils are an important intermediate storage pool of black carbon in boreal forests"
<p>This data is used in the publication "Mineral soils are an important intermediate storage pool of black carbon in boreal forests".</p> <p>The column plot_id uniquely represents each sample plot in the study and matches the columns of the same name in the complementary dataset "<a href="https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5078669">Dataset for 'Climatic Variation Drives Loss and Restructuring of Carbon and Nitrogen in Boreal Forest Wildfire'</a>". Odd numbers are burnt plots, while the burnt plot_id plus 1 is its paired control.</p> <p>Columns are labeled with the name of sampled soil layer and entries are their associated BC:W values. BC:W is unitless (formed by dividing grams black carbon by grams sample weight). Empty spots mean there was no material at the plot to collect.</p>
Data for: Can heavy metal pollution induce soil bacterial community resistance to antibiotics in boreal forests?
<p>The emergence of microbial antibiotic resistance is a central threat to global health, food security, and development. It has been shown that heavy metal pollution can give rise to microbial resistance to antibiotics, but how wide-spread this phenomenon is remains an open question that urgently needs filling to enable appropriate environmental risk assessments. Here, we determined whether long-term differences in heavy metal pollution in boreal forests had affected soil microbial communities such that they had increased microbial resistance to antibiotics. First, we assessed variation in metal concentrations in samples collected across a distance trajectory from the pollution source, and also the microbial rates and levels of bacterial community resistance to the heavy metal Cu and the antibiotics tetracycline and vancomycin in those samples. Second, we tested if the exposure to Cu or tetracycline could increase bacterial community resistance to Cu and to antibiotics in soils with high versus low background levels of metal contamination. Metal pollution had affected microbial community structures and suppressed decomposer functioning. Importantly, bacterial community Cu resistance increased with higher metal concentrations, which coincided with an induced bacterial community resistance to tetracycline, but not to vancomycin. Laboratory experiments revealed that bacterial community Cu resistance could be further induced in both the low and high end of the pollution gradient, but also that these short-term inductions of community metal tolerance did not coincide with enhanced antibiotic resistance. This yielded a surprising negative correlation between long-term and short-term effects by metals on microbial metal and antibiotic resistances. One mechanism that could provide protection against both metal cations and tetracycline is the small multidrug resistance (SMR) family, which is an energy demanding physiological mechanism that may take time to confer protection. This may explain the different microbial responses to long-term gradients and metal addition experiments. Policy implications. We show that metal pollution in boreal forests will promote antibiotic resistance in soil bacterial communities, revealing an overlooked reservoir of antibiotic resistance. We recommend that environmental risk assessments for any activity giving rise to increased soil metal concentrations need to also consider the induction of microbial antibiotic resistance.</p>
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