Aggregate mesquite litter mass-loss following soil-mixing and decomposition in a semi-arid grassland at the Jornada Basin LTER, 2010-2012

This package contains litter mass loss data from a litter decomposition experiment at the Jornada Basin LTER. To assess the role of soil-litter mixing (SLM) in aridland litter decomposition, litterbags were deployed in the Chihuahuan Desert and interrelationships between vegetation structure, SLM, and rates of decomposition were quantified. To assess the role of vegetation structure, litterbags were deployed in contrasting vegetation microsites, including grass, shrub, and bare ground microsites. This dataset contains the mass-loss data (including ash-corrections) from the experiment. This study is complete.