Solid soil chemistry data of the LTER station Zöbelboden from the year 2014

The LTER site Zöbelboden was equipped with highly modern infrastructure to assess the effects of extreme climate events on the forest ecosystem. The instruments include eddy covariance measurements for CO2 and water vapor fluxes at a tower (900 m a.s.l), and soil respiration auto-chambers, as well as combined sap flow sensors with automated dendrometers in the main footprint area of the eddy tower. This is the so called intensive plot 2 (IP2), which is equipped by a number of different field measurement devices for long-term monitoring (lysimeters water sampling, soil moisture and temperature sensors, manual dendrometers, deposition, litter fall) and supplemented by other monitoring activities (tree inventory, needle and leaf chemistry, soil chemistry). An optical multi-parameter probe for dissolved nitrogen and carbon was installed in the measuring weir of the catchment runoff at 577 m a.s.l. There, weekly water quality, runoff, and meteorology is monitored since many years. The related metadata refer to the soil respiration measurements.The raw data (exclusive periods of serious malfunction of the device) can be viewed and downloaded via the link provided using the station name “ZOE_0677P07”, “ZOE_0687P01”, “ZOE_0674P03”, “ZOE_0675P09”, “ZOE_0683P03”, “ZOE_0685P03”. Quality-assured data are available and will be provided by the contact person upon request. See methods for a short description of the QA-method.

Solid soil chemistry data of the LTER station Zöbelboden from the year 2008

Solid soil chemistry data of the LTER station Zöbelboden from the year 1992

Soil organic carbon concentration data of the Gesäuse-Johnsbachtal site.

Solid soil chemistry data of the LTER station Zöbelboden from the year 2004

The aim of the master thesis was to identify the soil organic carbon content (kg/m²) as a function of land use and pedogenic parameters. Therefor soil particle size distribution, bulk density, pH, organic carbon and total nitrogen contents were measured. The dataset provides values about physical and chemical soil parameters as well as the soil organic carbon (SOC) content at different soil depths (0-10cm, 10-30cm and 0-30cm) under varying vegetation cover (grasslands and forest) and elevation at the Modelregion Stubai Valley, Austria (municipalities Neustift + Fulpmes). The samples were taken in Summer 2012 and the measurements were conducted in fall 2012. For the SOC calculations paramters from 53 sites from earlier projects were added. The dataset also contains shapefiles representing the samplings sites and the sampling point distribution. The dataset also contains sampling points from earlier and present projects where C/N, NO3, NH4, soil type and pH values were measured.

This dataset contains temporal series for the water and carbon dioxide exchanges in two arid ecosystems of southeastern Spain.

Since the mid-1990s a series of subalpine grassland sites have been established at the Kaserstattalm, Stubai Valley. They include hay meadows, pastures and abandoned grassland which have partley been reforested. The overarching aim of all studies is to assess effects of global changes on ecological processes and related functional relationships in mountain grasslands. Therefor basic shapefiles and maps were created. This dataset includes only shapefiles representing: historical land use map,soil maps (soil type, soil depth, and organic soil layer ) and vegetation cover.