cc264d08-ba89-42f0-a7cf-9c9477e1e2bd English ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1) dataset dataset NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg Lancaster LA1 4AP UK info@eidc.ac.uk https://eidc.ac.uk/ EIDC website The Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC) is the UK's national data centre for terrestrial and freshwater sciences. information pointOfContact 2025-11-13T16:16:01 UK GEMINI 2.3 WGS 84 Measurements of respiration and microbial assimilation of carbon substrates and priming of soil organic matter mineralisation in tropical lowland and montane forest soils 2014-11-26 publication 1409915800452 CEH:EIDC: https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/cc264d08-ba89-42f0-a7cf-9c9477e1e2bd 10.5285/cc264d08-ba89-42f0-a7cf-9c9477e1e2bd doi: 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 This dataset includes measurements of microbial community composition by phospholipid fatty acid (PLFA) analysis, soil respiration (Carbon dioxide (CO2)), soil physico-chemical properties and 13C enrichment in CO2 samples and microbial Phospholipid Fatty Acids (PLFAs). Data were produced for an investigation of the effects of carbon (C) substrate addition on soil carbon cycling processes in ten tropical soils from the Peruvian Andes. Soils were amended with 13C labelled substrates (xylose, glycine, vanillin and hemicellulose) and incubated under controlled conditions for seven days. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/cc264d08-ba89-42f0-a7cf-9c9477e1e2bd Whitaker, J. Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Ostle, N. Lancaster University enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author McNamara, N. Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5143-5819 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Nottingham, A.T. University of Edinburgh enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Stott, A.W. Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Bardgett, R.D. University of Manchester enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Salinas, N. Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Ccahuana, A.J.Q. Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Meir, P. University of Edinburgh enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian NERC Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher Whitaker, J. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk pointOfContact UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk owner notPlanned soil forest respiration decomposition organic matter GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3 2019-01-28 creation Peru GeoNames 2006-01-01 creation Soil Andes soil organic matter microbial community composition priming montane cloud forest ecosystem function bacterial fungal tropical lowland montane otherRestrictions no limitations otherRestrictions This resource is made available under the terms of the Open Government Licence otherRestrictions © UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology otherRestrictions 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 textTable English utf8 environment 2012-01-01 -81.33 -68.68 -18.35 -0.012 Comma-separated values (CSV) NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/cc264d08-ba89-42f0-a7cf-9c9477e1e2bd Download the data Download a copy of this data download https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/cc264d08-ba89-42f0-a7cf-9c9477e1e2bd.zip Supporting information Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset information dataset dataset Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services 2010-12-08 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.