Respiration of soils from different land use plots on the Highfield experiment (Rothamsted) after addition of barley shoot powder and repeated dry:wet disturbances

The
dataset contains the results of an experimental and modelling study to
investigate the resilience of soils sampled from different land-uses to
repeated drying and rewetting disturbances. Soils were sampled from the arable,
grass, arable to grass reversion, grass to arable reversion and fallow plots of
the Highfield long term experiment at Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, UK. They
were then subjected to prescribed and controlled repeated drying and rewetting stresses.
Prior to disturbance and after 1, 2, 3, 4, 7 and 12 drying and rewetting cycles
barley shoot powder (5 mg) was added to the 0.5g soil samples and the
respiration response observed at 6 min resolution. This dataset contains the
raw respiration data from the soil samples as well as model parameters of a
model fitted to these respiration profiles in order to characterise their
response shape.
This
work was supported by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research
Council [grant numbers BB/J000671/1, BB/J000671/2]; and the UK Department of
Environment, Food and Rural Affairs). The Rothamsted Long-term Experiments
National Capability (LTE-NCG) is supported by the Biotechnology and Biological
Sciences Research Council; and the Lawes Agricultural Trust.