Dataset associated with “Using isotope pool dilution to understand how organic carbon additions affect N2O consumption in diverse soils”

This dataset includes information about eight soils collected from Colorado, New Mexico, and Minnesota. All soils were collected from June – July 2019. Five soils were collected in Colorado (two in Rocky Mountain National Park, one from a cornfield near Greeley, CO, one from a grassland near Nunn CO, and one from a lawn at Colorado State University). One soil was collected in New Mexico, from the Sevilleta National Grassland. Two soils were collected from Minnesota (one from a coniferous forest near Ely, MN, and one from a cornfield near Elrosa, MN). We subsampled these soils to analyze their soil chemical and microbial genetic properties, and we also subsampled these soils to analyze their nitrous oxide (N2O) emission and isotopic composition. The purpose of these analyses was to determine how amending soils with organic carbon influenced their capacity to produce and consume N2O. All of these analyses occurred at Colorado State University, from July – September 2019.