A budget and spatial representation of Phosphorus in the central Arizona-Phoenix area

Phosphorus is a limited resource and a critical element in biogeochemistry. The raster datasets included here were created to show the spatial distribution of phosphorus stocks, accumulation, and throughput in the Central Arizona Phoenix Long Term Ecological Research study area. These rasters were created as the products of a phosphorus budget compiled within the CAP-LTER study area and are intended to be used by researchers studying biogeochemical cycles and sustainability. The raster of phosphorus stocks show the distribution of both abiotic and biotic phosphorus pools in the environment, which generally have long residence in the urban ecosystem. The accumulation and throughput raster show the likely areas where phosphorus will aggregate (inputs-outputs) over time and throughput shows areas with the highest inputs plus outputs of P. In addition to our final products we also include rasters used as variables to calculate the raw stocks, accumulation, and throughput rasters. For more information on how each layer was calculated please see: url="http://www.esajournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1890/11-0865.1" Ecological Applications, 22(2), 2012, pp. 705 to 721 Copyright 2012 by the Ecological Society of America Metson, G, R Hale, D Iwaniec, E Cook, J Corman, C Galletti, and D Childers, "Phosphorus in Phoenix: a budget and spatial representation of phosphorus in an urban ecosystem," Ecological Applications, 22(2), 2012, pp. 705 to 721 Phosphorus is a limited resource and a critical element in the biogeochemistry of ecosystems. These raster datasets were create. For more information on how each layer was calculated please see: "http://www.esajournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1890/11-0865.1" Ecological Applications, 22(2), 2012, pp. 705 to 721 Copyright 2012 by the Ecological Society of America. Metson, G, R Hale, D Iwaniec, E Cook, J Corman, C Galletti, and D Childers, "Phosphorus in Phoenix: a budget and spatial representation of phosphorus in an urban ecosystem," Ecological Applications, 22(2), 2012, pp. 705 to 721