PEC01 Elemental chemistry of plant tissue collected for the Konza LTER aboveground plant biomass on Konza Prairie core watersheds

Dataset contains elemental chemistry (N, C, Al, As, B, Ba, Be, Ca, Cd, Co, Cr, Cu, Fe, K, Li, Mg, Mn, Mo, Na, Ni, P, Pb, S, Si, Ti, V, and Zn) of dried and ground, end-of-season, above-ground live tissue from grasses, forbs, and woody plants collected on Tully soils in the watersheds 001d, 004b, and 020b. N and C are provided as percentages; all other elements are provided as parts per million (ppm). Within plant growth type (grasses, forbs, and woody) and year, elemental concentrations were measured on one pooled (2g) sample containing four (0.5g) subsamples of ground and dried plant tissue (subsamples included from recent years were named TA2, TB2, TC2, and TD2; subsamples included from older years were named: TA2, TA4, TB2, TB4). For more information on plant sampling see the description of the Konza LTER PAB01 aboveground plant biomass dataset (Blair & Nippert). Elemental chemistry was analyzed using combustion analysis for percent N and using hot plate digestion and inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectroscopy (ICP-AES) for concentrations of metals (ppm) at the Cornell Nutrient Analysis Laboratory (https://cnal.cals.cornell.edu/).