The Effects of Plant-Microbe-Environment Interactions on Mineral Weathering Patterns in a Granular Basalt

Data used in the Milici et al.  Geobiology article "The Effects of Plant-Microbe-Environment Interactions on Mineral Weathering in Granular Basalt". The data result from a greenhouse experiment in which 14 genotypes of Alfalfa (Medicago sativa) were grown in an unweathered granular basaltic tephra, exposed to an early successional soil microbial community, and replicated across three different soil moisture treatments. This experiment seeks to identify the roles of vascular plants and soil microbes on mineral weathering. Please see the article for full project description. 

General File Descriptions:

"AllPerformanceGeochem.csv" contains both the performance and geochemistry data associated with each plant grown in the experiment and is used for the majority of the analyses.

"FullCensusTimeSeries.csv" contains the growth and survival data for the plants across the entire 3 month duration of the experiment and is used only to calculate survival rate and growth rate.

"pottingsoilmass.csv" contains the data for alfalfa grown in potting soil and is used to compare how much the basalt limited plant growth relative to a potting soil control. 

These data are cleaned and formatted for analysis via the code in the github repository linked to this data repository.