Eight Mile Lake Research Watershed, Carbon in Permafrost Experimental Heating Research (CiPEHR): physical and chemical properties of soils, 2009-2013

• Main Authors: Plaza, Schuur, Edward A.G., Pegoraro, Elaine F., Bonanza Creek LTER
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Environmental Data Initiative 2017
• Subjects: alaska range; permafrost; Tundra; Alaska
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.6073/pasta/61660d073ee85ed6b0a47b684a919f0e; https://portal.edirepository.org/nis/mapbrowse?packageid=knb-lter-bnz.655.3

The Carbon in Permafrost Experimental Heating Research (CiPEHR) project addresses the following questions: 1) Does ecosystem warming cause a net release of C from the ecosystem to the atmosphere?, 2) Does the decomposition of old C, that comprises the bulk of the soil C pool, influence ecosystem C loss?, and 3) How do winter and summer warming alone, and in combination, affect ecosystem C exchange? We are answering these questions using a combination of field and laboratory experiments to measure ecosystem carbon balance and radiocarbon isotope ratios at a warming experiment located in an upland tundra field site near Healy, Alaska in the foothills of the Alaska Range. This data set includes measurements of moisture, bulk density, ash, carbon, and nitrogen concentrations, and carbon and nitrogen stable isotope composition (?13C and ?15N) at depth increments in soil cores collected in 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2013 from warming and control treatment plots.