Growth, biomass allocation and tissue nutrient concentrations of subtropical and tropical tree seedlings in response to experimental manipulation of soil phosphorus pools
bibliographic citation: 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
description: 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.
provenance: ProvenanceStatement
  label: 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).
spatial: Location
temporal: PeriodOfTime
  start date: 2014-10-01
  end date: 2016-04-30
contact point: Burslem, D.
publisher: NERC Environmental Information Data Centre
is referenced by: ele.12939
subject: Environmental risk
subject: Soil
subject: phosphorus
subject: tree biomass
subject: mycorrhiza
was generated by: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects
type: Dataset
available: 2019-09-30
landing page: https://doi.org/10.5285/3ad644c9-e341-4a15-ab35-311076defc33
license: OGL-UK-3.0.ttl
rights: RightsStatement
  copyright notice: copyright Natural Environment Research Council
access rights: UNRS
theme: Environmental risk
theme: Soil
distribution:
  access URL: https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/3ad644c9-e341-4a15-ab35-311076defc33
  license: OGL-UK-3.0.ttl
  rights: RightsStatement
    copyright notice: copyright Natural Environment Research Council
  access rights: UNRS
  format: Comma-separated values (CSV)
creator: Burslem, D.
creator: Liu, X.
language: en

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family name: Burslem
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NERC Environmental Information Data Centre
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Liu, X.
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family name: Liu
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member: Sun Yat-Sen University

Johnson, D.
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family name: Johnson
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Taylor, A.
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member: The James Hutton Institute

Taylor, J.
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Helgason, T.
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family name: Helgason
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member: University of York

Chen, Y.
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given name: Y.
member: The University of Hong Kong

Liang, M.
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family name: Liang
given name: M.
member: Sun Yat-Sen University

ele.12939
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bibliographic citation: Liu, X., Burslem, D. F. R. P., Taylor, J. D., Taylor, A. F. S., Khoo, E., Majalap-Lee, N., ... Johnson, D. (2018). Partitioning of soil phosphorus among arbuscular and ectomycorrhizal trees in tropical and subtropical forests. Ecology Letters, 21(5), 713-723.

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phosphorus
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tree biomass
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mycorrhiza
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University of Aberdeen
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Sun Yat-Sen University
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University of Manchester
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The James Hutton Institute
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University of Salford
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University of York
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The University of Hong Kong
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