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Depth-resolved sagebrush root metabolomics, rhizosphere microbial communities, and geochemistry at the East River Watershed

Creators: Li, LanglangORCID, Munoz, Nathalie, Velickovic, Dusan, Dong, WenmingORCID, Christensen, John, Bill, MarkusORCID, Bouskill, NicholasORCID, Williams, Kenneth, Gilbert, Benjamin
Year: 2026
DOI: 10.15485/3021477
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 net
Publisher: Watershed Function SFA
Tags: EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > SOILS, EARTH SCIENCE > SOLID EARTH > ROCKS/MINERALS/CRYSTALS, EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > PLANTS, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > SOILS > CALCIUM, EARTH SCIENCE > AGRICULTURE > SOILS > CARBON, EARTH SCIENCE > AGRICULTURE > SOILS > NITROGEN, EARTH SCIENCE > LAND SURFACE > SOILS > PHOSPHORUS, ESS-DIVE File Level Metadata Reporting Format, ESS-DIVE CSV File Formatting Guidelines Reporting Format, Alpine & Subalpine Ecology, Hydrology & Watersheds, Snow & Ice, Geology & Tectonics, Soil Science, Geochemistry & Isotopes, Weather & Atmospheric Science, Mining & Mineral Resources, Gunnison Basin, Research Programs

Description

This data set consists of results from soil nutrient profile, untargeted metabolomics, mass spec imaging, and amplicon sequencing. Data for soil nutrient profile includes common cations (Ca, Mg, Na, and K etc.) extracted from 3 digesting steps – ammonia acetate (for exchangeable cations), nitric acid (for acid dissolved fraction), and hydrofluoric acid/perchloric acid (HF/HClO4) for whole soil digestion. It also includes concentration of organic carbon, inorganic nitrogen (ammonia and nitrate) and phosphorus (Bray-1 P and nitric acid extract), and total nitrogen and phosphorus. Data for untargeted metabolomics includes metabolomic profile for root exudate/tissues and soil extracts from depths at surface soil to saprolite, that were measured using gas chromatography – mass spectrometry (GC-MS), and liquid chromatography – tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS). Data for mass spec imaging includes spatial distribution of metabolites that were detected and annotated with Fourier transformation ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometer (FTICR-MS). Data for amplicon sequencing includes the base paired 16S and ITS ribosomal RNA sequences from Miseq Illumina sequencing. All samples were collected from 2 sampling campaign October 2022 and June 2023. Collectively, these datasets enable a mechanistic evaluation of how nutrient acquisition, especially nitrogen and phosphorus, differs between shallow roots operating in soil and deep roots functioning within the fractured bedrock zone. All files are provided as comma-separated values (CSV) fies (.csv) and (GZIP) file (.gz). The compressed .gz FASTQ files can be read directly in R using the dada2 package as part of the amplicon sequence analysis workflow. 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. This research was performed on a project award 60563 (https://dx.doi.org/10.46936/expl.proj.2022.60563/60008727) from the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, a DOE Office of Science User Facility sponsored by the Biological and Environmental Research program under Contract No. DE-AC05-76RL01830.

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