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This SOils DAta Harmonization (SoDaH) database is designed to bring together soil carbon data from diverse research networks into a harmonized dataset that can be used for synthesis activities and model development. The research network sources for SoDaH span different biomes and climates, encompass multiple ecosystem types, and have collected data across a range of spatial, temporal, and depth gradients. The rich data sets assembled in SoDaH consist of observations from monitoring efforts and long-term ecological experiments. The SoDaH database also incorporates related environmental covariate data pertaining to climate, vegetation, soil chemistry, and soil physical properties. The data are harmonized and aggregated using open-source code that enables a scripted, repeatable approach for soil data synthesis.
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SoDaH: the SOils DAta Harmonization database, an open-source synthesis of soil data from research networks, version 1.0
Abstract. Data collected from research networks presentopportunities to test theories and develop models about factors responsiblefor the long-term persistence and vulnerability of soil organic matter(SOM). Synthesizing datasets collected by different research networkspresents opportunities to expand the ecological gradients and scientificbreadth of information available for inquiry. Synthesizing these data ischallenging, especially considering the legacy of soil data that havealready been collected and an expansion of new network science initiatives.To facilitate this effort, here we present the SOils DAta Harmonizationdatabase (SoDaH; https://lter.github.io/som-website, last access: 22 December 2020), a flexible database designed to harmonize diverse SOM datasets frommultiple research networks. SoDaH is built on several network scienceefforts in the United States, but the tools built for SoDaH aim to providean open-access resource to facilitate synthesis of soil carbon data.Moreover, SoDaH allows for individual locations to contribute results fromexperimental manipulations, repeated measurements from long-term studies,and local- to regional-scale gradients across ecosystems or landscapes.Finally, we also provide data visualization and analysis tools that can beused to query and analyze the aggregated database. The SoDaH v1.0 dataset isarchived and availableat https://doi.org/10.6073/pasta/9733f6b6d2ffd12bf126dc36a763e0b4 (Wieder et al., 2020).
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- 10231429
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- Earth System Science Data
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- 13
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- 5
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- 1866-3516
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- 1843 to 1854
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- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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