Nitrogen and carbon concentrations and stable isotope ratios: Data from a N tracer study in short-form and .

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United States Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, Narragansett, RI, United States.

Published: December 2018

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  • The text presents four datasets related to primary production and nitrogen uptake in salt marsh grasses from a stable isotope tracer study conducted in Rhode Island.
  • These datasets include plant mass and height measurements, weekly stem height tracking, detailed data on plant compartments and sediment, and microbial removal estimates from denitrification enzyme assays.
  • All datasets and their analysis source code are compiled in the NitrogenUptake2016 R package, accessible through the Comprehensive R Archive Network.

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We present four datasets that provide information on primary production, nitrogen (N) uptake and allocation in two salt marsh grasses, short-form and . These four datasets were generated during a month-long stable isotope (N) tracer study described in the companion manuscript (Hill et al., 2018). They include an allometry dataset containing mass and height data for individual plants harvested from Colt State Park, Bristol, Rhode Island and used to nondestructively estimate plant masses. A second dataset contains weekly stem height measurements collected over the course of the N tracer study. Also included are high resolution data from 49 vegetated compartments (leaves, stems, fine/coarse roots, rhizomes) and bulk sediment depth intervals, reporting the mass, carbon and N concentrations, and stable isotope ratios measured following the harvest of cores over time. Additionally, we provide a complementary dataset with estimates of microbial removal from potential and ambient denitrification enzyme assays. These data, along with source code used in their analysis, are compiled in the NitrogenUptake2016 R package available from the Comprehensive R Archive Network.

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