Physical soil characteristics, microbial community composition, extracellular enzymatic activity, biologically based phosphorus (BBP) pools, and available phosphorus from two soil depths, four microhabitats, and four landforms at the Jornada Experimental Range, 2021.

This dataset contains physical soil characteristics, PLFA based
microbial community composition, extracellular enzymatic activity,
nitrate and ammonium activity, and phosphorus availability in
various phosphorus pools (Biologically Based Phosphorus, potassium
sulfate, Olsen-P). Soils were collected from two depths (0-2cm, 2-30
cm), four microhabitats (grass, shrub, biocrust, interspace), and
four landforms (alluvial flat, alluvial fan remnant, erosional
scarplet, fan piedmont – see coordinates) within the Jornada
Experimental Range in July 2021 to answer questions about how these
variables change across these spatial scales in drylands. This
project was a collaboration between researchers at New Mexico State
University and The University of Texas at El Paso as part of the
Drylands Critical Zone Thematic Cluster within the Critical Zone
Network. This dataset is complete.