Data Package Metadata View Summary

Compost Amendments up to One Inch Restore Dry Rangeland Soil Health and Plant Productivity in New Mexico, 2020-2022

General Information

Data Package:

Local Identifier:

edi.1572.1

Title:

Compost Amendments up to One Inch Restore Dry Rangeland Soil Health and Plant Productivity in New Mexico, 2020-2022

Alternate Identifier:

DOI PLACE HOLDER

Abstract:

Dry rangelands are important systems for coproducing food and other ecosystem services, but degradation of productivity, diversity, and water holding capacity may require active intervention to restore. Use of compost amendments on grasslands has been shown to improve many outcomes related to carbon, water, and nutrients unless excessive amounts are used, but practitioners lack guidance of optimal and cost-effective use to meet their management goals. We compared compost additions from 0-2.54 cm at two ranches in New Mexico and measured plant composition and biomass, soil characteristics such as bulk density, infiltration rate, aggregate stability, and total carbon content under baseline conditions and one- and two years after addition.

Publication Date:

2024-11-27

For more information:
Visit:	DOI PLACE HOLDER

Time Period

Begin:

2020-09-01

End:

2022-09-30

People and Organizations
Contact:	Stricker, Eva (Quivira Coalition, Director of the Carbon Ranch Initiative) [ email ]
Creator:	Stricker, Eva (Quivira Coalition, Director of the Carbon Ranch Initiative)
Associate:	Withers, Zach (Polks Folly Farm, Farmer, Data collection)
Associate:	Cornell, Emily (Sol Ranch, Rancher, Data collection)

Data Entities
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Description:	aboveground biomass in 0.2m^2 quadrats, inside and outside exclosures
Data Table Name:	Aggregate stability
Description:	six soil clots subjected to the dip test per plot.
Data Table Name:	Organic Carbon
Description:	0-10cm, from commercial lab (acid pre-treatment)
Data Table Name:	Treatments
Description:	Plot ID, site, depth of compost added (in), and date added
Data Table Name:	infil
Description:	Time of infiltration for 1 inch of water
Data Table Name:	Bulk density
Description:	Bulk density collected by extracting cores with rigid metal cylinders to 10cm depth
Data Table Name:	rootspolks
Description:	Belowground biomass from top 10cm in 5, 3/4" diameter cores scaled to m^2
Data Table Name:	Linint
Description:	Line intercept data at two levels (ground = at surface, herbaceous = >surface up to 50cm tall) at multiple distances along two transects (N and S) per plot

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Data Entities

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Definition:

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Site (Sol or Polk's)

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Keywords

By Thesaurus:
(No thesaurus)	grassland, forage, organic amendment
LTER Controlled Vocabulary	infiltration, soil carbon

Methods and Protocols

These methods, instrumentation and/or protocols apply to all data in this dataset:

Methods and protocols used in the collection of this data package

Description:

At each site, twelve 4.75 x 9.14 m plots were established on flat, relatively uniform fields (Figs. A1, A2). Three plots were randomly assigned to be control plots, and three plots each received 0.64 cm, 1.3 cm, or 2.5 cm of compost which corresponds to approximately 0, 3.2, 6.4, 12.8 kg m2, respectively, which spans added amounts in previous studies (Kutos et al. 2022). Baseline monitoring was completed just prior to compost addition in September 2020 at each site and annually thereafter.

In each plot, two 1 m2 quadrats for aboveground biomass clip plots were marked 1 m from the edge of the narrow axis of the plot to avoid edge effects. One of the quadrats was surrounded by 4 ft tall fencing to create an exclosure within each plot. Two 5 m long transects for vegetation functional group composition were marked 1 m from the plot edges and 1 m from the clip plots.

Soil cover by plant functional group was recorded along 50 points on each transect and categorized as living vegetation, litter (included fine and coarse herbaceous and woody debris and dung) and bare ground (included soil and rock).

Aboveground biomass was collected in the exclosure and open quadrats. We used a 1 m2 grid divided into 100 cm2 squares and randomly selected without replacement ten squares to clip to ground level each year. Biomass was placed in paper bags, dried at 60C for 3d, and oxidized material was removed to capture material that was likely to have been alive in the previous 12 months. Material was weighed to 0.1 g. Belowground biomass in the top 10 cm was collected in the same squares in the 1 m2 grid as the aboveground biomass with 0.9 cm diameter soil core. Soils were sieved to 2 mm and roots were picked out from all fractions with forceps, soaked and washed, then dried for 60C for 3d and weighed to 0.001 g.

Bulk density was collected from 0-10 cm using a rigid metal cylinder (diameter 5.7 cm) hammered into the soil then excavated and placed in a plastic bag for transport to the lab to dry at 60C for 3d. Aggregate stability was measured on 6 haphazardly-collected surface samples using methods from Herrick et al. (2001). This method would not capture soils that could not be collected on the sieve (aka, category 0), but was consistent across all treatments. Infiltration rate was measured with a single ring infiltrometer (15.24 cm diameter) pounded into the soil in a randomly selected interspace (without perennial plants inside) to 10 cm depth. 444 mL of water was added and the time for all soil to infiltrate until soil surface was recorded. A second 444 mL was added and the time for the water to infiltrate was recorded, up to 30 min. Soil from the aggregated belowground biomass sample outside the exclosure was used to determine organic carbon by combustion method (Ward Labs, IA).

People and Organizations

Publishers:

Organization:

Environmental Data Initiative

Email Address:

info@edirepository.org

Web Address:

https://edirepository.org

Id:

https://ror.org/0330j0z60

Creators:

Individual:

Dr Eva Stricker

Organization:

Quivira Coalition

Position:

Director of the Carbon Ranch Initiative

Email Address:

eva@quiviracoalition.org

Web Address:

http://quiviracoalition.org

Id:

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9742-3434

Contacts:

Individual:

Dr Eva Stricker

Organization:

Quivira Coalition

Position:

Director of the Carbon Ranch Initiative

Email Address:

eva@quiviracoalition.org

Web Address:

http://quiviracoalition.org

Id:

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9742-3434

Associated Parties:

Individual:

Zach Withers

Organization:

Polks Folly Farm

Position:

Farmer

Email Address:

info@polksfolly.com

Role:

Data collection

Individual:

Emily Cornell

Organization:

Sol Ranch

Position:

Rancher

Email Address:

solranchnm@gmail.com

Role:

Data collection

Metadata Providers:

Individual:

Dr Eva Stricker

Organization:

Quivira Coalition

Position:

Director of the Carbon Ranch Initiative

Email Address:

eva@quiviracoalition.org

Web Address:

http://quiviracoalition.org

Id:

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9742-3434

Temporal, Geographic and Taxonomic Coverage

Temporal, Geographic and/or Taxonomic information that applies to all data in this dataset:

Time Period

Begin:

2020-09-01

End:

2022-09-30

Geographic Region:

Description:

Bernalillo county operation

Bounding Coordinates:

Northern:	35.168917	Southern:	35.168882
Western:	-106.33443	Eastern:	-106.321578

Geographic Region:

Description:

Mora County operation

Bounding Coordinates:

Northern:	35.928149	Southern:	35.922102
Western:	-104.616495	Eastern:	-104.609092

Project

Parent Project Information:

Title:

Polks Folly WSARE

Personnel:

Individual:

Dr Eva Stricker

Organization:

Quivira Coalition

Position:

Director of the Carbon Ranch Initiative

Email Address:

eva@quiviracoalition.org

Web Address:

http://quiviracoalition.org

Id:

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9742-3434

Role:

Principal Investigator

Individual:

Zach Withers

Organization:

Polks Folly Farm

Position:

Farmer

Email Address:

info@polksfolly.com

Role:

Data collection

Individual:	Emily Cornell
Organization:	Sol Ranch
Position:	Rancher
Role:	Data collection

Additional Award Information:

Funder:	National Institute of Food and Agriculture
Title:	G355-20-W7900

Additional Award Information:

Funder:	Western Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education
Number:	2021-67019-34249
Title:	FW20-363

Maintenance

Maintenance:

Description:	Data was entered and independently checked for accuracy against datasheets.
Frequency:	notPlanned

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