SGS-LTER Earthwatch Project - Nitrogen and Carbon in Native, Abandoned and Cultivated Fields in eastern Colorado, USA 1991

This data package was produced by researchers
working on the Shortgrass Steppe Long Term
Ecological Research (SGS-LTER) Project,
administered at Colorado State University.
Long-term datasets and background information
(proposals, reports, photographs, etc.) on the
SGS-LTER project are contained in a comprehensive
project collection within the Digital Collections
of Colorado
(http://digitool.library.colostate.edu/R/?func=collections&collection_id=3429).
The data table and associated metadata document,
which is generated in Ecological Metadata
Language, may be available through other
repositories serving the ecological research
community and represent components of the larger
SGS-LTER project collection. Our objective in this study was to evaluate
effects of land use on in situ net N
mineralization in shortgrass steppe by comparing
native and abandoned fields and cultivated fields,
and by comparing soil under and between plants
within native and abandoned fields. We also
compared mineralization patterns between in situ
and laboratory incubations to evaluate the role of
environmental restrictions in determining N supply
across management treatments and
microsites. Additional information and referenced materials can be found:
http://hdl.handle.net/10217/82140