Response of Macquarie Island springtails to diesel fuel contaminated soils under field-realistic exposure conditions

This data record describes work conducted by Thomas Mooney on Macquarie Island during the 2008/09 and 2009/10 field seasons.The experimental design of this work included sampling three sites located in uncontaminated areas, within the vicinity of the Macquarie Island research station. One transect (length: 50 m) was located per site; each transect spanned a soil carbon gradient, from sandy to peaty soil types. Each 50 m transect included 10 plots (plot size 1 m2). Seven pairs of soil cores were collected from each plot. Soil core dimensions were 70 mm diameter x 70 mm deep. Soil core pairs were spiked with Special Antarctic Blend (SAB) diesel; one unspiked control and six spiked concentrations per plot. After spiking, cores were incubated under field-realistic conditions for 15 days. After incubation, one core per pair was used for invertebrate extraction, the other was used for soil physicochemical analysis. Percentage cover of plant species and bare ground were surveyed for each plot.The data provided with this record include details of soil core fuel spike, springtail species counts, soil physicochemical properties and vegetation cover within plots. A sister data record, for mite taxa is provided in: Mooney, T., Wasley, J., Andrew, N.R., King, C.K. (2019, updated 2019) Response of Macquarie Island mites to diesel fuel contaminated soils under field-realistic exposure conditions Australian Antarctic Data Centre - doi:10.26179/5c89defcce167.This work formed part of TMs PhD research (Mooney 2013). PhD supervisors were Dr Catherine King (AAD) and Associate Professor Nigel Andrew (UNE). Funding was provided by AAS projects 2933 and 4100 (King) and 4036 (Snape) and an Australian Postgraduate Award to TM (University of New England, Australia).    Reference: Mooney T. (2013) Response of soil invertebrates to petroleum hydrocarbon contaminated soils at Macquarie Island, PhD Thesis, University of New England, Australia 147pp.

本数据集记录了Thomas Mooney于2008/2009和2009/2010野外考察季在麦夸里岛（Macquarie Island）开展的研究工作。
本研究的实验设计为：选取麦夸里岛研究站周边未受污染区域内的3个采样点，每个采样点设置1条长度为50米的样带（transect）；每条样带覆盖从沙质土壤到泥炭质土壤的土壤碳梯度。每条50米样带内设置10个1平方米的样方（plot）。
每个样方采集7组土壤芯样（soil core），芯样规格为直径70毫米、深度70毫米。对每组芯样，设置1个未添加污染物的对照样，其余6个分别施加南极专用混合（Special Antarctic Blend, SAB）柴油进行污染处理。
添加污染物后，将所有芯样在符合野外实际环境的条件下培养15天。培养结束后，每组芯样中的1个用于提取土壤无脊椎动物，另1个用于土壤理化性质分析。同时对每个样方的植物物种盖度及裸地覆盖率开展调查。
本数据集包含以下内容：土壤芯样的柴油污染添加详情、跳虫（springtail）物种计数数据、样方内土壤理化性质及植被盖度数据。
另有一份针对螨类（mite taxa）的配套数据集，相关文献信息如下：Mooney, T., Wasley, J., Andrew, N.R., King, C.K. (2019, 2019年更新) 《野外真实暴露条件下麦夸里岛螨类对柴油污染土壤的响应》，澳大利亚南极数据中心，doi:10.26179/5c89defcce167。
本研究为TM的博士研究课题（Mooney 2013）的组成部分。指导教师为Catherine King博士（澳大利亚南极分部，Australian Antarctic Division, AAD）与Nigel Andrew副教授（新英格兰大学，University of New England, UNE）。研究经费由澳大利亚南极项目（AAS）2933、4100（King负责）及4036（Snape负责），以及授予TM的澳大利亚研究生奖学金（Australian Postgraduate Award，新英格兰大学，澳大利亚）提供。
参考文献：Mooney T. (2013) 《麦夸里岛土壤无脊椎动物对石油烃污染土壤的响应》，博士学位论文，澳大利亚新英格兰大学，共147页。