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Loss-on-ignition method
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Description
Systematic excavation of 1-meter soil pits with depth-stratified sampling at 10 cm intervals for soil organic carbon, nitrogen, and dissolved organic carbon analysis. Includes soil profile description and photographic documentation.
Typical Equipment
- shovels
- D5600 Nikon camera
- vario MACRO cube Elemental analyzer
- 0.5 M K2SO4
- microplate reader
Output Measurements
- SOC concentration
- soil nitrogen
- DOC concentration
- C:N ratio
- soil profile description
Papers Using This Protocol (16)
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Soil signals of key mechanisms driving greater protection of organic carbon under aspen compared to spruce forests in a North American montane ecosystem
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Exploring the impact of climate change on soil carbon storage in montane meadows
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Interannual precipitation controls on soil CO2 fluxes in high elevation conifer and aspen forests
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Plant removal across an elevational gradient marginally reduces rates, substantially reduces variation in mineralization
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The Effect of Climate Change on Soil Organic Carbon over an Elevational Gradient
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Integrating natural gradients, experiments, and statistical modeling in a distributed network experiment: An example from the WaRM Network
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Modeling transient soil moisture limitations on microbial carbon respiration
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Impacts of the invasive species <i> Linaria vulgaris </i> on soil ecology and native plant biodiversity
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Microbial communities across a hillslope-riparian transect shaped by proximity to the stream, groundwater table, and weathered bedrock
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Convergent ecosystem responses to 23-year ambient and manipulated warming link advancing snowmelt and shrub encroachment to transient and long-term climate–soil carbon feedback
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Real and experimental ecosystem warming: interacting effects on snowmelt, plant community composition and carbon storage in a Rocky Mountain subalpine meadow
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Ecosystems impacts of climate change: snowmelt timing, species diversity, and plant productivity
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Defensive strategy to nectar robbing in <i></i>Ipomopsis aggregata:<i></i> floral nectar as a tolerance trait
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Integrating experimental and gradient methods in ecological climate change research
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The effects of plant succession and ant nest on soil organic matter and soil moisture
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