A Compilation of Global Soil Microbial Biomass Carbon, Nitrogen, and Phosphorus Data.
This data set provides the concentrations of soil microbial biomass carbon (C), nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P), soil organic carbon, total nitrogen, and total phosphorus at biome and global scales. The data were compiled from a comprehensive survey of publications from the late 1970s to 2012 and include 3,422 data points from 315 papers. These data are from soil samples collected primarily at 0-15 cm depth with some from 0-30 cm. In addition, data were compiled for soil microbial biomass concentrations from soil profile samples to depths of 100 cm.
To view complete documentation and access the data, visit the data set Web page at http://daac.ornl.gov/cgi-bin/dsviewer.pl?ds_id=1264
Data Acknowledgements
- Data authors: X. Xu, P.E. Thornton, and W.M. Post
- Data center: ORNL DAAC (http://daac.ornl.gov)
- Sponsor: NASA EOSDIS (http://earthdata.nasa.gov)
- Data Set DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1264
