Dataset for evaluation element fluxes released by weathering and taken up by plants along the EarthShape climate and vegetation gradient

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With this data, we expand the data set characterizing the Critical Zone geochemistry along the Chilean Coastal Cordillera provided by Oeser et al. (2018). This data set completes the results of bulk geochemical analysis of bedrock and regolith with those of bulk analysis of major plants and those of the bio-available fraction in saprolite and soil (determined using a modified sequential extraction method on bulk regolith samples after Arunachalam et al., 1996; He et al., 1995; Tessier et al., 1979). For all those compartments of the Earth’s Critical Zone, we further present 87Sr/86Sr isotope ratios. A detailed graphical presentation and discussion of this data as well as method description is given in Oeser and von Blanckenburg (2020), Decoupling primary productivity from silicate weathering – how ecosystems regulate nutrient uptake along a climate and vegetation gradient. Using this data, we were thus, able to determine weathering rates and nutrient uptake along the “EarthShape” climate and vegetation gradient in the Chilean Coastal Cordillera and to identify the sources of mineral nutrients to plants. Ultimately, we were able to budget inventories, gains and losses of nutritive elements in and out of these ecosystems and to quantify nutrient recycling. We found that the weathering rate does not increase from north to south along the climate gradient. Instead, the increase in biomass growth rate is accommodated by faster nutrient recycling. The absence of an increase in weathering rate in spite of a five-fold increase in precipitation led us to hypothesize that the presence of plants even negatively impacts weathering through reducing the water flow, inducing secondary-mineral formation, and fostering a microbial community specializing on nutrient-recycling rather than nutrient-acquisition through weathering. All samples are assigned with International Geo Sample Numbers (IGSN), a globally unique and persistent Identifier for physical samples. The IGSNs are provided in the data tables and link to a comprehensive sample description in the internet. Tables included in this data publication: Table S1: Chemical composition of representative bedrock samples from Pan de Azúcar, Santa Gracia, La Campana, and Nahuelbuta. Table S2: Weathering indices CDF and τ along with radiogenic 87Sr/86Sr ratios of the 2 × 4 regolith profiles. Table S3: Concentration of the bio-available fraction, comprised of the water-soluble and the exchangeable fraction. Table S4: Concentration of the water-soluble and the exchangeable fraction, and the relative amount of the bio-available fraction (pooled water-soluble and exchangeable fraction) on bulk regolith. Table S5: Chemical composition of the study sites’ single plant organs along with their respective 87Sr/86Sr ratio.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5880/GFZ.3.3.2020.003
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Metadata Access http://doidb.wdc-terra.org/oaip/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:doidb.wdc-terra.org:6816
Provenance
Creator Oeser, Ralf Andreas ORCID logo; von Blanckenburg, Friedhelm (ORCID: 0000-0002-2964-717X)
Publisher GFZ Data Services
Contributor Schlegel, Jutta; Buhk, Josefine; Schuessler, Jan A.
Publication Year 2020
Funding Reference Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, 1803
Rights CC BY 4.0; http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Language English
Resource Type Dataset
Format application/octet-stream
Size 3 Files
Discipline Biospheric Sciences; Ecology; Geosciences; Natural Sciences
Spatial Coverage (-73.120W, -37.901S, -70.170E, -25.968N); EarthShape Study Area Chilean Coastal Cordillera; Parque Nacional Pan de Azúcar; Reserva Natural Santa Gracia; Parque Nacional La Campana; Parque Nacional Nahuelbuta