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Data description paper
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06 Jan 2020
Data description paper |
| 06 Jan 2020
| 06 Jan 2020
An open-source database for the synthesis of soil radiocarbon data: International Soil Radiocarbon Database (ISRaD) version 1.0
US Geological Survey, Geosciences and Environmental Change Science
Center, Denver, CO, USA
Jeffrey Beem-Miller
Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany
Alison M. Hoyt
Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany
Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, Lawrence
Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
Grey Monroe
Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, Colorado State University, Fort
Collins, CO, USA
Carlos A. Sierra
Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany
Shane Stoner
Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany
Katherine Heckman
US Forest Service Northern Research Station, Houghton, MI, USA
Joseph C. Blankinship
Department of Environmental Science, University of
Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
Susan E. Crow
Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, USA
Gavin McNicol
Department of Earth System Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
Susan Trumbore
Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany
Paul A. Levine
Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
Olga Vindušková
Department of Earth System Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
Katherine Todd-Brown
Department of Environmental Engineering Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
Craig Rasmussen
Department of Environmental Science, University of
Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
Caitlin E. Hicks Pries
Department of Biological Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH,
USA
Christina Schädel
Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, Northern Arizona
University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA
Karis McFarlane
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, USA
Sebastian Doetterl
Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Christine Hatté
LSCE, UMR 8212 CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Université Paris-Saclay, 91191
Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Yujie He
Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
Claire Treat
Department of Environmental and Biological Sciences, University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland
Jennifer W. Harden
Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, USA
US Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA, USA
Margaret S. Torn
Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, Lawrence
Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
Cristian Estop-Aragonés
Department of Renewable Resources, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Asmeret Asefaw Berhe
Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of
California, Merced, CA, USA
Marco Keiluweit
Stockbridge School of Agriculture, University of
Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, USA
Ágatha Della Rosa Kuhnen
Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany
Erika Marin-Spiotta
Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison,
WI, USA
Alain F. Plante
Department of Earth and Environmental Science, University of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Aaron Thompson
Department of Crop and Soil Science, Odum School of Ecology,
University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA
Zheng Shi
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of
California, Irvine, CA, USA
Joshua P. Schimel
Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
Lydia J. S. Vaughn
Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, Lawrence
Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
Department of Integrative Biology, University of California,
Berkeley, CA, USA
Sophie F. von Fromm
Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany
Rota Wagai
National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Institute for
Agro-Environmental Sciences, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
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The International Soil Radiocarbon Database (ISRaD) is an an open-source archive of soil data focused on datasets including radiocarbon measurements. ISRaD includes data from bulk or
whole soils, distinct soil carbon pools isolated in the laboratory by a variety of soil fractionation methods, samples of soil gas or water collected interstitially from within an intact soil profile, CO2 gas isolated from laboratory soil incubations, and fluxes collected in situ from a soil surface.
The International Soil Radiocarbon Database (ISRaD) is an an open-source archive of soil data...
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