Identification

Title

Growth, biomass allocation and tissue nutrient concentrations of subtropical and tropical tree seedlings in response to experimental manipulation of soil phosphorus pools

Abstract

This dataset reports metrics of plant growth, including height, total biomass and the biomass of component plant parts, and percentage root colonisation by mycorrhizas, for tree seedlings of eight tropical and seven subtropical growing in pots of soil that had been amended by addition of various sources of phosphorus (inorganic phosphate, adenosine monophosphate, phytic, or a mixture of all three) plus an unfertilized control treatment with no P additions. The aim of the experiment was to test the hypothesis that seedlings of species that associate with different types of root-inhabiting mycorrhizal fungi would respond differently to the range of P sources applied in the experiment. The experiments were conducted as part of a NERC Discovery Science project with the title Explaining niche separation in tropical forests: feedbacks from root-fungal symbioses and soil phosphorus partitioning led by Professor David Burslem (University of Aberdeen) reference NE/M004848/1. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/3ad644c9-e341-4a15-ab35-311076defc33

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/3ad644c9-e341-4a15-ab35-311076defc33

description: Download a copy of this data

function: download

https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/3ad644c9-e341-4a15-ab35-311076defc33.zip

description: Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset

function: information

Unique resource identifier

code

https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/3ad644c9-e341-4a15-ab35-311076defc33

codeSpace

doi:

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

biota

Keywords

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

111.53

East bounding longitude

117.57

North bounding latitude

23.27

South bounding latitude

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

2014-10-01

End position

2016-04-30

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2019-09-30

date type

creation

effective date

2018-09-12

Frequency of update

Quality and validity

Lineage

The experiments were conducted by Xubing Liu with input from all authors. Data quality checks were conducted by all authors. The data-set provides raw data on growth metrics for each seedling, plus identifying codes for the two sites where the experiment was conducted, reflecting the tropical and subtropical origin of the seedlings, as well as experimental block, P treatment, botanical names for the tree species, and mycorrhizal type. Full details of materials and methods are provided in the paper reporting the results of the study (doi: 10.1111/ele.12939).

Conformity

Conformity report

specification

title

Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-12-08

degree

explanation

Data format

name of format

Comma-separated values (CSV)

version of format

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

If you reuse this data, you should cite: Burslem, D., Liu, X., Johnson, D., Taylor, A., Taylor, J., Helgason, T., Chen, Y., Liang, M. (2019). Growth, biomass allocation and tissue nutrient concentrations of subtropical and tropical tree seedlings in response to experimental manipulation of soil phosphorus pools. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/3ad644c9-e341-4a15-ab35-311076defc33

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

organisation name

email address

d.burslem@abdn.ac.uk

web address

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6033-0990

description: ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers.

function: information

responsible party role

author

Responsible party

organisation name

email address

liuxubing@mail.sysu.edu.cn

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

full postal address

Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg

Lancaster

LA1 4AP

email address

info@eidc.ac.uk

web address

https://eidc.ac.uk/

description: The Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC) is the UK's national data centre for terrestrial and freshwater sciences.

function: information

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2025-03-24T16:03:56

Metadata language

eng