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Comer-Warner, S.A.; Romeijn, P.; Krause, S.; Gooddy, D.C.; Ullah, S.

Carbon dioxide and methane emissions from incubated streambed sediments from the rivers Tern and Lambourn, England (2015)

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https://doi.org/10.5285/3a0a5132-797c-4ed5-98b9-1c17eaa2f2b7
The dataset contains carbon dioxide and methane emissions, as well as resorufin production (as a proxy for microbial metabolic activity) and dissolved oxygen concentrations, resulting from laboratory incubation experiments of streambed sediments. The sediments were collected from the upper 10 centimetres of the streambed in the River Tern and the River Lambourn in September 2015, with three samples collected from each river. These samples were collected from three areas: silt-dominated sediment underneath vegetation (fine), sand-dominated sediment from unvegetated zones (medium) and gravel-dominated sediment from unvegetated zones (coarse). The sediment was used in laboratory incubation experiments to determine the effect of temperature, organic matter content, substrate type and geological origin on streambed microbial metabolic activity, and carbon dioxide and methane production.

The work was carried out as part of a Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) funded PhD (NERC award number 1602135). The work was also part funded through the Seventh Framework Programme (EU grant number 607150).
Publication date: 2018-05-04
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Format

Comma-separated values (CSV)

Spatial information

Study area
Spatial representation type
Tabular (text)
Spatial reference system
WGS 84

Temporal information

Temporal extent
2015-09-15    to    2015-12-03

Provenance & quality

Sediment was collected using a shovel before being sieved (0.8 cm for fine, and 1.6 cm for medium and coarse) and homogenised prior to storage. The sediment was stored airtight in the cold and dark. Sediment of varying organic matter content from two geological origins (chalk and sandstone) was incubated at five temperatures (5, 9, 15, 21 and 26°C). Resorufin production was measured using a GGUN-FL30 on-line fluorometer, dissolved oxygen was measured using a Pyro-science Firesting fixed needle-type probe, and carbon dioxide and methane concentrations were measured using an Agilent 7890A Gas Chromatograph - Flame Ionisation Detector. The carbon dioxide and methane concentrations were converted to production per hour by calculating the difference in concentration between zero and five hours and normalising the production by the length of the incubation period. The data was then converted to emissions per volume of dry sediment using the Bunsen coefficient and the volume of sediment in each jar, resulting in units of milligrams of carbon per square metre per hour. Greenhouse gas concentrations were corrected for any machine drift using results from a standard gas mixture ran periodically during gas analysis. The resorufin concentration was converted to production per hour by calculating the difference in concentration between zero and five hours and normalising the production by the length of the incubation period. The production was then normalised by the concentration of resazurin added to the jar, resulting in units of nanograms of resorufin per microgram of resazurin per hour. Data were entered into an Excel spreadsheet and exported as a comma separated value file (.csv) for ingestion into the EIDC.

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Cite this dataset as:
Comer-Warner, S.A.; Romeijn, P.; Krause, S.; Gooddy, D.C.; Ullah, S. (2018). Carbon dioxide and methane emissions from incubated streambed sediments from the rivers Tern and Lambourn, England (2015). NERC Environmental Information Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/3a0a5132-797c-4ed5-98b9-1c17eaa2f2b7

Supplemental information

Lemke, D., Schnegg, P. A., Schwientek, M., Osenbrück K. & Cirpka, O. A. On-line fluorometry of multiple reactive and conservative tracers in streams. Environ. Earth Sci. 69, 349-358 (2013)
Hoogsteen, M. J. J., Lantinga, E. A., Bakker, E. J., Groot, J. C. J. & Tittonell, P. A. Estimating soil organic carbon through loss on ignition: Effects of ignition conditions and structural water loss. Eur. J. Soil Sci. 66, 320-328 (2015).

Correspondence/contact details

Sophie Comer-Warner
University of Birmingham
Birmingham
UK
 sxc469@bham.ac.uk

Authors

Comer-Warner, S.A.
University of Birmingham
Romeijn, P.
University of Birmingham
Krause, S.
University of Birmingham
Gooddy, D.C.
British Geological Survey
Ullah, S.
University of Birmingham

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Custodian
NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
 info@eidc.ac.uk
Publisher
NERC Environmental Information Data Centre
 info@eidc.ac.uk

Additional metadata

Topic categories
climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
INSPIRE theme
Atmospheric Conditions
Keywords
carbon dioxide , chalk , geology , greenhouse gas , Greenhouse gas production , methane , Microbial metabolic activity , Resazurin , Resorufin , River Lambourn , River Tern , Sandstone , sediment , streambed , Substrate type
Funding
Natural Environment Research Council Award: NERC award number 1602135
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12 February 2024 17:52