NEON Prototype data: Soil Microbes, Soil Biogeochem., and Plant Structure and Chem., D01 HARV, 2012

A key component of the NEON Science Designs is co-located sampling of a variety of types of ecological data. This prototype dataset contains a number of these ecological data types, collected in July and August of 2012 at site HARV in domain D01 by the Terrestrial Observation System (TOS) before the development of the final standardized protocols. This effort informed numerous data products, including Soil physical properties (Distributed periodic) (DP1.10086), Soil chemical properties (Distributed periodic) (DP1.10078), Soil stable isotopes (Distributed periodic) (NEON.DP1.10100), Soil microbe metagenome sequences (DP1.10107), Plant foliar physical and chemical properties (DP1.10026), Plant foliar stable isotopes (DP1.10053), Digital hemispheric photos of plot vegetation (DP1.10017), and Woody plant vegetation structure (DP1.10098). This prototype field campaign also informed logistics and methods necessary for collocated collection of remote-sensing and ground-based datasets.