uid=BNZ,o=lter,dc=ecoinformatics,dc=org all public read knb-lter-bnz.26.10 Isla Myers-Smith

405 CW Biological Sciences Building, Dept. Biological Sciences University of Alberta, , AB, T6G 2E9 Edmonton Aberta T6G 2E9 Canada

(780) 492-1295 myerssmi@ualberta.ca http://www.ualberta.ca/~myerssmi/home.html Bonanza Creek LTER Data Manager

Boreal Ecology Cooperative Research Unit University of Alaska Fairbanks P.O. Box 756780 Fairbanks AK 99775 USA

907-474-6364 907-474-6251 jpdowning@alaska.edu http://www.lter.uaf.edu F.S. Stuart Chapin Professor of Ecology

Department of Biology and Wildlife; Institute of Arctic Biology: University of Alaska Fairbanks 193 Arctic Health P.O. Box 757000 Fairbanks AK 99775 United States

(907) 474-7922 (907) 474-6967 Associated investigator Jennifer W. Harden USGS, Adjunct Professor of Soil Science, University of Alaska Fairbanks

U.S. Geological Survey 345 Middlefield Road, MS 962 Menlo Park CA 94025 United States

(650) 329-4949 (650) 329-4920 Associated investigator A. David McGuire Assistant Professor of Landscape Ecology

Alaska Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit University of Alaska Fairbanks Irving I Building Fairbanks AK 99775 United States

(907) 474-6242 (907) 474-7872 Associated investigator 2005-11-24 This data set contains biomass measurements for a destructively harvested transect 30 m to the east of the permanent transect from the center of the BBC collapse scar (0m) into the surrounding fire scar (30m) of the Survey Line Fire (burned in June-July 2001). Biomass samples were collected on DOY 231 2004. Two 61 cm x 61 cm plots were harvested on the east and west side of every point along the transect (0, 6, 12, 18, 24, and 30 m). We sorted these above-ground biomass samples into plant type (Sphagnum spp., other mosses, Marchantia spp., Eriophorum vaginatum, Carex spp., Grasses, Betula spp., Salix spp., Potentilla palustris, Ledum groenlandicum, Vaccinium uliginosum, Vaccinium vitis-idaea, Chamaedaphne calyculata, other vascular plants, dead mosses, dead Carex spp., dead Graminoid, dead Potentilla palustris, dead Salix spp., and other litter). Photosynthetic green tissues were separated from the above-ground biomass samples. Samples were dried at 60°C to measure the dry mass. Samples were also analyzed for %C and %N. We oven-dried at 50 - 65°C and ground all samples before analysis. We analyzed samples for %C and %N using a Carlo Erba EA1108 CHNS analyzer (CE Instruments, Milan, Italy) and a COSTECH ECS 4010 CHNS-O analyzer (Costech Analytical Technologies Inc., Valencia, CA, USA). Sample standard errors were ± 0.01% for nitrogen, ± 0.45% for carbon. For the biomass transect samples, we analyzed for %C and %N when the samples were more than 10% of the plot biomass allowing for representative sampling of carbon and nitrogen from the dominant plant types. This data set was collected to monitor the change in biomass across the transect to relate this to disturbance, topography, soils, soil moisture and measured fluxes of CO2 and CH4 emissions. biomass vascular plants mosses nutrients nitrogen carbon carbon cycling ecosystems gradient Biogeochemistry

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Bonanza Creek LTER Data Manager

Boreal Ecology Cooperative Research Unit University of Alaska Fairbanks P.O. Box 756780 Fairbanks AK 99775 USA

907-474-6364 907-474-6251 jpdowning@alaska.edu http://www.lter.uaf.edu Bonanza Creek LTER

Boreal Ecology Cooperative Research Unit University of Alaska Fairbanks P.O. Box 756780 Fairbanks AK 99775 USA

907-474-6364 907-474-6251 Bonanza Creek LTER

Two 61 cm x 61 cm plots were harvested on the east and west side of every point along the transect (0, 6, 12, 18, 24, and 30 m).

Field methods: Biomass samples were collected on DOY 231 2004. Lab methods: We sorted these above-ground biomass samples into plant type (Sphagnum spp., other mosses, Marchantia spp., Eriophorum vaginatum, Carex spp., Grasses, Betula spp., Salix spp., Potentilla palustris, Ledum groenlandicum, Vaccinium uliginosum, Vaccinium vitis-idaea, Chamaedaphne calyculata, other vascular plants, dead mosses, dead Carex spp., dead Graminoid, dead Potentilla palustris, dead Salix spp., and other litter). Photosynthetic green tissues were separated from the above-ground biomass samples. Samples were dried at 60°C to measure the dry mass. Samples were also analyzed for %C and %N. We oven-dried at 50 - 65°C and ground all samples before analysis. We analyzed samples for %C and %N using a Carlo Erba EA1108 CHNS analyzer (CE Instruments, Milan, Italy) and a COSTECH ECS 4010 CHNS-O analyzer (Costech Analytical Technologies Inc., Valencia, CA, USA). Sample standard errors were ± 0.01% for nitrogen, ± 0.45% for carbon. For the biomass transect samples, we analyzed for %C and %N when the samples were more than 10% of the plot biomass allowing for representative sampling of carbon and nitrogen from the dominant plant types.

238_2066_biomass_data.txt This data set was collected to monitor the change in biomass across the transect to relate this to disturbance, topography, soils, soil moisture and measured fluxes of CO2 and CH4 emissions. 238_2066_biomass_data.txt 1 \n \n column \t http://metacat.lternet.edu/das/dataAccessServlet?docid=knb-lter-bnz..&urlTail=/ascii/files/238_2066_biomass_data.txt Plant Type Plant Type Plant types of plant samples string Plant types of plant samples Distance Distance Distance along the transect (0-30m) m integer meter real Side of Transect Side of Transect Side of the transect (East or West) string Side of the transect (East or West) Biomass (g/m2) Biomass (g/m2) Biomass of plant samples (in g per m2) integer gramsPerSquareMeter real Sample ID Sample ID Sample name used string Sample name used % Nitrogen % Nitrogen Nitrogen Percent nitrogen in the plant sample integer percent real %Carbon %Carbon Carbon Percent carbon in the plant sample integer percent real