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Data for "Depth of nutrient uptake by deep-rooted plants is regulated by water availability"

Creators: Langlang Li, John Christensen, Markus BillORCID, Wenming DongORCID, Yuxin Wu, Curtis Beulter, Matthias SprengerORCID, Brian Gulick, Sharon Bone, Boris FaybishenkoORCID, John Sanders, Amanda Henderson, Nicholas BouskillORCID, Kenneth Williams, Benjamin Gilbert
Year: 2025
DOI: 10.15485/2998779
License: CC-BY 4.0
Location: The East River (ER) is a snow‐dominated, headwater basin of the Upper Colorado River Basin (UCRB) located in the western United States. The ER is the designated testbed of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and SLAC Accelerator Laboratory's Watershed Function Scientific Focus Area (WFSFA). This portion of the ER watershed contains the project-defined boundaries of East River, Washington Gulch, Slate River, and Coal Creek, as described in the location metadata. Through WFSFA, observational networks have been established to measure stream discharge and precipitation chemistry. The ER is considered representative of many snow‐dominated headwaters of the Rocky Mountains. The study domain encompasses nearly 85 square km, a 1.4‐km vertical drop in elevation (4,120 to 2,760 m) and pristine alpine, subalpine, montane, and riparian ecosystems. The ER contains high‐energy mountain streams to low‐energy meandering floodplains and is eroding primarily into the Cretaceous, carbon‐rich, marine shale of the Mancos Formation. This data package contains geographic metadata for specific observation points throughout the watershed. Additional metadata on specific locations within the watershed are provided in the following related data package: Varadharajan C. et al. (2025) doi:10.15485/1660962
Temporal extent: 2023-06-16 to 2025-06-04
Bounding box: 38.820°N to 39.033°N, -107.120°W to -106.880°W
Publisher: ESS_DIVE
Tags: EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > SOILS, EARTH SCIENCE > SOLID EARTH > ROCKS/MINERALS/CRYSTALS, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > PLANTS, EARTH SCIENCE > TERRESTRIAL HYDROSPHERE > SURFACE WATER, CATEGORICAL:GCMD EARTH SCIENCE > SOLID EARTH > GEOCHEMISTRY > GEOCHEMICAL PROPERTIES > ISOTOPES, VARIABLE:GCMD ESS-DIVE File Level Metadata Reporting Format, ESS-DIVE CSV File Formatting Guidelines Reporting Format, ESS-DIVE Sample ID and Metadata Reporting Format, ESS-DIVE Location Metadata Reporting Format, Alpine & Subalpine Ecology, Forest Ecology, Hydrology & Watersheds, Snow & Ice, Geology & Tectonics, Soil Science, Geochemistry & Isotopes, Weather & Atmospheric Science, Mining & Mineral Resources, Field Methods & Monitoring, Gunnison Basin, Research Programs

Description

The data set consists of strontium (Sr) isotope ratios (87Sr/86Sr), water isotopes, soil cation concentrations, soil water potential sensor data, and results of 87Sr/86Sr mixing model. The plant canopy size files include the dataset of canopy dimension of sagebrush, lupine, and sunflower. The soil and plant ICPMS (Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry) data file includes both of 87Sr/86Sr, and cation concentration dataset from soil exchangeable pool, apatite pool, silicate extract, atmospheric rain deposition, and plant leaf and stem tissues. The plant dendrochronology file includes the dendrochronogical ring width of several sagebrush, and dendrochemical sample data includes the 87Sr/86Sr for each separated growth ring. The modeling result gives the proportion of nutrient sources of each plants (based on their 87Sr/86Sr in leaf tissues and growth rings) from atmospheric deposition and mineral weathering. Soil water potential data includes continuous collection of soil water potential dataset at 2 depths (30 cm and 60 cm, from Nov 24 - Jun 25) of the sampling site. All the samples were collected from 2 sampling campaign June and July 2023, and rain water is a separate sampling from Aug - Sept 2023, at north-facing hillslope near pumphouse site. The data showed that the depth of cation nutrient acquisition is thus tightly coupled with, and likely determined by, water availability in soil, saprolite and bedrock. The enhanced uptake of cations and water from regions of mineral weathering could confer plant and ecosystem resilience during low water years and may impact the rate of bedrock weathering and watershed chemistry during drought. This dataset includes a file-level metadata (flmd.csv) file that lists each file contained in the dataset with associated metadata; a data dictionary (dd.csv) file that contains column/row headers used throughout the files along with a definition, units, and data type; a location metadata file (locations.csv); and a samples metadata file (samples.csv). All files are provided as comma-separated values (CSV) files (.csv). This work was supported by the Watershed Function Science Focus Area at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory funded by the US Department of Energy, Office of Science, Biological and Environmental Research under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231.

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