Date (Publication)

2014-11-26

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CEH:EIDC: / 1409915800452

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https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/cc264d08-ba89-42f0-a7cf-9c9477e1e2bd

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doi: / 10.5285/cc264d08-ba89-42f0-a7cf-9c9477e1e2bd

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Whitaker, J., Ostle, N., McNamara, N., Nottingham, A.T., Stott, A.W., Bardgett, R.D., Salinas, N., Ccahuana, A.J.Q., Meir, P. (2014). Measurements of respiration and microbial assimilation of carbon substrates and priming of soil organic matter mineralisation in tropical lowland and montane forest soils. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/cc264d08-ba89-42f0-a7cf-9c9477e1e2bd

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GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3

• soil
• forest
• respiration
• decomposition
• organic matter

GeoNames

• Peru

Keywords

• Soil
• Andes
• soil organic matter
• microbial community composition
• priming
• montane cloud forest
• ecosystem function
• bacterial
• fungal
• tropical lowland
• montane

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If you reuse this data, you should cite: Whitaker, J., Ostle, N., McNamara, N., Nottingham, A.T., Stott, A.W., Bardgett, R.D., Salinas, N., Ccahuana, A.J.Q., Meir, P. (2014). Measurements of respiration and microbial assimilation of carbon substrates and priming of soil organic matter mineralisation in tropical lowland and montane forest soils. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/cc264d08-ba89-42f0-a7cf-9c9477e1e2bd

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Begin date

2012-01-01

Unique resource identifier

WGS 84

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Soils were sampled in January 2012 from ten sites along a tropical elevation gradient located on the east flank of the Peruvian Andes, with site elevations ranging from 210 to 3400 metres (m) above sea-level (asl). All sites have continuous forest cover ranging from lowland Amazonian rainforest to upper montane cloud forest; the tree-line is situated at approximately 3500 m asl. Annual temperature decreases with increasing elevation along this transect, from 26-8 degrees Centigrade (oC). Annual precipitation ranges from 1700 to 3200 millemetres per year (mm yr-1). Soil water content has been reported to have no clear relationship with elevation, partly due to limited evapotranspiration and fog deposition within the cloud immersion zone (1500-3400 m asl). At each site, the organic layer was sampled from 5 sub-plots within established 1 hectare (ha) plots with the organic layer removed from a 40 x 40 centimetre (cm) area in each sub-plot. Soils were sealed in plastic bags, immediately transported to the laboratory, and stored at 4 oC for 6 weeks until used for experimentation and analysis.

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Date stamp

2025-11-13T16:16:01

Metadata standard name

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Metadata standard version

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