Vast, overlooked peat and organic soils in Brazil's Cerrado: carbon storage, dynamics, and stability

Data accompanying the paper "Vast, overlooked peat and organic soils in Brazil's Cerrado: carbon storage, dynamics, and stability."Authors: Larissa S Verona1,2, Amy E Zanne2, Susan Trumbore3, Paulo N. Bernardino²,4, Guilherme M Alencar4, Thalia Andreuccetti¹, David Herrera3,5,6, João C F Cardoso7, Demetrius Lira-Martins4, Guilherme G Mazzochini8, Natashi Pilon4, Rafael S Oliveira4 1. Programa de pós-graduação em Biologia Vegetal, Departamento de Biologia Vegetal,Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil; 2. Cary Institute of Ecosystems Studies, Millbrook, NY, US; 3. Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany 4. Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Departamento de Biologia Vegetal, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil; 5. Yale School of the Environment, Yale University, New Haven, US; 6. Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies, Yale University, New Haven, US; 7. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia, Conservação e Manejo da Fauna Silvestre, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil. 8. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil # SupportingTable1_CarbonStorageData:Data regarding herbaceous biomass, palm biomass, and soil carbon storage.## Tab: Biomass - HerbaceousDry height for herbaceous biomass in each plot, point, and site, for above and below-ground sampling. ## Tab: Tab: Biomass - PalmsPalm height and derived above and below-ground biomass according Goodman et al., 2013, in each point and site. ## Tab: Soil CarbonCarbon and Nitrogen %, dry bulk density, volume, length, and carbon density for each sample, point, transect and site. # SupportingTable2_ValidationPointsRandomForestLatitude, Longitude (WGS84), and Class for validation points used to train Random Forest models. # SupportingTable3_CarbonStabilityData## Tab: RadiocarbonF14, error for F14 measures, derived calendar age max, min, mean and errors, max probability for calendar age, and curve used to estimate calendar age for each sample, point, and site. ## Tab: FTIRHolecellulose and lignin percentages, carbon %, and flooding patterns for each sample, point, and site. # SupportingTable4_FluxesAndEnviromentalVariablesData## LocationSampling information description including temporal replication, spatial replication, point, site, month, position, latitude and longitude (WGS84) and flooding pattern. ## GasesGas measurements including flux, rate, coefficient of determination r,² and coefficient of variation for CH4 and CO2## Environmental VariableTotal and mean precipitation in lags of 0-6 months. # SupportingTable5_ConfusionMatricesPredicted and truth classes for validation points in 10 random forest models.