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Child Item 3: Soil Properties of Lake-Margin Wetlands of the Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge

Dates

Publication Date
Start Date
2011
End Date
2012

Citation

Patil, V.P., and Waldrop, M.P., 2023, Soil and vegetation data from lake-margin wetlands in the Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9QF8RR5.

Summary

This is a child item of the USGS Data Release: https://doi.org/10.5066/P9QF8RR5 This dataset is a single comma-delimited text file (.csv). Data include the name of lakes where samples were obtained, soil pH, electrical conductivity (EC), water content (VWC), and bulk density (BD) of soil core samples within organic soil horizon in lake-margin wetland plant communities.

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Alaska Science Center
Originator :
Vijay P Patil, Mark P Waldrop
Metadata Contact :
Alaska Science Center
Publisher :
Alaska Science Center
Distributor :
USGS ScienceBase Team
SDC Data Owner :
Alaska Science Center
USGS Mission Area :
Ecosystems

Attached Files

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lakeMargins_soilProperties_yukonFlats.csv 28.89 KB text/csv
lakeMargins_soilProperties_yukonFlats_metadata.html 42.57 KB text/html

Purpose

To estimate changes in soil characteristics (pH, electrical conductivity, and volumetric water content) associated with multi-decadal lake drying and shifts in aboveground plant community structure.

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