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Far North Queensland, Soil Chemistry Data, 2019

The data set contains information on topsoil chemistry for 20, 10&nbsp;cm deep soil cores sampled along an elevation gradient (40-1550&nbsp;m a.s.l.) in Far North Queensland. Information on soil C:N, N:P and C:P ratios and soil pH and organic matter content are provided. Soil elemental composition such as calcium, potassium, phosphorus, sulphur, iron, manganese, boron, aluminum, copper, zinc, lead, chromium, and cadmium are also provided. In addition, the data set contains information on soil δ<sup>13</sup>C and δ<sup>15</sup>N isotope concentration.

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Identification info

Date (Creation)
2019-01-20
Date (Publication)
2023-04-27
Date (Revision)
2025-12-10
Edition
1

Identifier

Title
DataCite
Code
doi:10.25901/kzp0-bm17
Codespace
http://dx.doi.org

Publisher

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Building 1019, 80 Meiers Rd
Indooroopilly
QLD
4068
Australia
+61 7 3365 9097

Author

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network - Singh Ramesh, Arun (Ecology Research Data Analyst)
80 Meiers Road, Indooroopilly, Queensland, 4068, Australia
Indooroopilly
Queensland
4068
Australia

Co-author

James Cook University - Cheesman, Alexander ()
1 James Cook Drive, Bebegu Yumba campus, 4811, Douglas, Australia
Bebegu Yumba campus
Douglas
4811
Australia

Co-author

James Cook University - Cernusak, Lucas ()
1 James Cook Drive, Bebegu Yumba campus, 4811, Douglas, Australia
Bebegu Yumba campus
Douglas
4811
Australia
Website
https://www.tern.org.au/

Purpose
The soil chemistry data was generated as part of the author's PhD project that investigated trends in microclimate and soil chemistry along an elevation gradient in the Australian Wet Tropics World Heritage Area (AWT). This data set was used in conjunction with the FNQ microclimate information <a href="https://portal.tern.org.au/metadata/TERN/56be85d3-94fa-4e8b-b249-e4862fa3b5a6 ">Far North Queensland Microclimate Data</a> as part of the author's thesis. <br></br>
Credit
We at TERN acknowledge the Traditional Owners and Custodians throughout Australia, New Zealand and all nations. We honour their profound connections to land, water, biodiversity and culture and pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging.
Credit
The field work and analytical costs for this project was funded by The Skyrail Rainforest Foundation, The Wet Tropics Management Authority and the Ian Potter Foundation.
Status
Completed

Point of contact

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network - Singh Ramesh, Arun (Ecology Research Data Analyst)
80 Meiers Road, Indooroopilly, Queensland, 4068, Australia
80 Meiers Road
Indooroopilly
Queensland
4068
Australia
Topic category
  • Environment
  • Elevation

Extent

Description
The topsoil chemistry were studied from five tropical rainforest locations, Daintree Rainforest Observatory (one site), Daintree Discovery Centre (one site), Rex Range (one site), Mt Lewis National Park (16 sites) and Mt Bellenden Ker (one site).
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Temporal extent

Time period
2019-01-20 2019-09-11
Maintenance and update frequency
Not planned
GCMD Science Keywords
  • SOILS
  • SOIL CHEMISTRY
  • PHOSPHORUS
  • MICRONUTRIENTS/TRACE ELEMENTS
  • SOIL PH
  • ORGANIC MATTER
  • CARBON ISOTOPE
  • NITROGEN ISOTOPES
ANZSRC Fields of Research
  • Soil chemistry and soil carbon sequestration (excl. carbon sequestration science)
  • Terrestrial ecology
TERN Platform Vocabulary
  • Daintree Rainforest, Cape Tribulation
  • Rex Range site
  • Daintree Rainforest, Cow Bay
  • Mt Lewis National Park, 600-1
  • Mt Lewis National Park, 600-2
  • Mt Lewis National Park, 600-4
  • Mt Lewis National Park, 800-1
  • Mt Lewis National Park, 800-2
  • Mt Lewis National Park, 800-3
  • Mt Lewis National Park, 800-4
  • Mt Lewis National Park, 1000-1
  • Mt Lewis National Park, 1000-2
  • Mt Lewis National Park, 1000-3
  • Mt Lewis National Park, 1000-4
  • Mt Lewis National Park, 1200-1
  • Mt Lewis National Park, 1200-2
  • Mt Lewis National Park, 1200-3
  • Mt Lewis National Park, 1200-4
  • Mt Bellenden Ker, subsite understory
  • Mt Lewis National Park, 600-3
TERN Instrument Vocabulary
  • Costech ECS 4010 CHNSO Analyzer
  • Finnigan DELTAplus XP
  • Pocket ISFET pH Meter
TERN Parameter Vocabulary
  • soil calcium content
  • Milligram per Gram
  • soil potassium
  • Milligram per Gram
  • soil sulfur
  • Milligram per Gram
  • soil copper content
  • Milligram per Gram
  • soil lead content
  • Milligram per Gram
  • soil zinc content
  • Milligram per Gram
  • soil pH
  • Unitless
  • soil organic matter
  • Percent
  • soil delta-15N
  • Parts per Million
  • soil delta-13C
  • Parts per Million
  • soil iron content
  • Milligram per Gram
  • soil phosphorus content
  • Milligram per Gram
QUDT Units of Measure
  • Milligram per Gram
  • Milligram per Gram
  • Milligram per Gram
  • Milligram per Gram
  • Milligram per Gram
  • Milligram per Gram
  • Unitless
  • Percent
  • Parts per Million
  • Parts per Million
  • Milligram per Gram
  • Milligram per Gram
GCMD Horizontal Resolution Ranges
  • Point Resolution
GCMD Temporal Resolution Ranges
  • one off
Keywords (Discipline)
  • Soil nutrient composition
  • topsoil Chemistry
  • Wet tropical rainforest
  • Far North Queensland

Resource constraints

Use limitation
The Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license allows others to copy, distribute, display, and create derivative works provided that they credit the original source and any other nominated parties. Details are provided at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
File name
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File description
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File type
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Linkage
https://w3id.org/tern/static/cc-by/88x31.png

Title
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence
Alternate title
CC-BY
Edition
4.0
Website
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Access constraints
License
Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
TERN services are provided on an "as-is" and "as available" basis. Users use any TERN services at their discretion and risk. They will be solely responsible for any damage or loss whatsoever that results from such use including use of any data obtained through TERN and any analysis performed using the TERN infrastructure. <br />Web links to and from external, third party websites should not be construed as implying any relationships with and/or endorsement of the external site or its content by TERN. <br /><br />Please advise any work or publications that use this data via the online form at https://www.tern.org.au/research-publications/#reporting
Other constraints
Please cite this dataset as {Author} ({PublicationYear}). {Title}. {Version, as appropriate}. Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network. Dataset. {Identifier}.
Other constraints
<br>The data is currently being used in a manuscript for submission to the <i>Agriculture and Forest Meteorology</i> journal. In the meantime, the authors recommend that those interested in using the data contact the authors to discuss the possibility of co-authorship. </br>

Resource constraints

Classification
Unclassified

Distribution Information

Distribution format
  • NetCDF

Distributor

Distributor

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Building 1019, 80 Meiers Rd
Indooroopilly
QLD
4068
Australia
OnLine resource
FarNorthQueensland_SoilChemistry_DataDictionary

Distribution Information

Distribution format
  • NetCDF

Distributor

Distributor

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Building 1019, 80 Meiers Rd
Indooroopilly
QLD
4068
Australia
OnLine resource
FarNorthQueensland_SoilChemistryDataASR_etal_2019

Distribution Information

Distribution format

Distributor

Distributor

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Building 1019, 80 Meiers Rd, Indooroopilly, QLD, Australia, 4068
Indooroopilly
QLD
4068
Australia
OnLine resource
ro-crate-metadata.json

Resource lineage

Statement
Soil Sampling survey: Soil nutrients and isotope composition were measured in composite soil samples collected from the study sites (n=20) where microclimate is being monitored in the AWT. At each site, the authors collected five soil cores using an auger (~10&nbsp;cm deep) after removing leaf litter consisting of recognizable leaf fragments. Samples were bulked and homogenized for each site prior to analysis. Soil pH in H<sub>2</sub>O and in 0.01&nbsp;M CaCl<sub>2</sub> were measured on fresh soil using an ISFET pH pen (Model 24006 DeltaTrak). Samples were then oven-dried at ca 105&#8451; for up to 72&nbsp;h and powdered using a Benchtop Ring Mill.<br></br> Soil analysis: Total soil elemental analysis was conducted using microwave-assisted acid digestion of the oven dried samples, followed by ionization detection using the Inductively Coupled Plasma-Atomic Emission Spectrometer (ICP-AES) at the Advanced Analytical Centre, JCU - Townsville. Soil carbon (%C) and nitrogen (%N) were measured using a Costech elemental analyser (EA) (Milan, Italy) fitted with a zero-blank auto-sampler at the Advanced Analytical Centre, JCU - Cairns. This was used to calculate the C:N ratio. The stable carbon and nitrogen isotope ratio (expressed as δ<sup>13</sup>C and δ<sup>15</sup>N) of the samples was measured using acThermoFinnigan Deltaplus XL isotope ratio mass spectrometer (ThermoFinnigan GmbH, Bremen, FRG), linked to the EA via a ConFlo III interface. Stable isotope results are reported as per mil (‰) deviations from the AIR reference standard scale for δ<sup>15</sup>N. Soil organic matter content (OMC) was calculated via loss of mass on ignition (360&#8451; for 2&nbsp;h).
Hierarchy level
Dataset

Reference System Information

Reference system identifier
EPSG/EPSG:4326

Reference system type
Geodetic Geographic 2D

Metadata

Metadata identifier
urn:uuid/e87f7d0b-4666-4f1c-8a8d-17f35cd0f089

Title
TERN GeoNetwork UUID

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Point of contact

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Building 1019, 80 Meiers Rd
Indooroopilly
QLD
4068
Australia
+61 7 3365 9097

Type of resource

Resource scope
Dataset
Metadata linkage
https://geonetwork.tern.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/e87f7d0b-4666-4f1c-8a8d-17f35cd0f089

Point-of-truth metadata URL

Date info (Creation)
2023-04-13T00:00:00.000000+00:00
Date info (Revision)
2025-12-10T09:55:11.678457+00:00

Metadata standard

Title
ISO 19115-1:2014/AMD 1:2018 Geographic information - Metadata - Fundamentals
Edition
1

Metadata standard

Title
ISO/TS 19115-3:2016
Edition
1.0

Metadata standard

Title
ISO/TS 19157-2:2016
Edition
1.0
Title
Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) Metadata Profile of ISO 19115-3:2016 and ISO 19157-2:2016
Date (published)
2021
Edition
1.0

Identifier

Code
10.5281/zenodo.5652221
Website
https://github.com/ternaustralia/TERN-ISO19115/releases/tag/v1.0

 
 

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Keywords

ANZSRC Fields of Research
Soil chemistry and soil carbon sequestration (excl. carbon sequestration science) Terrestrial ecology
GCMD Science Keywords
CARBON ISOTOPE MICRONUTRIENTS/TRACE ELEMENTS NITROGEN ISOTOPES ORGANIC MATTER PHOSPHORUS SOIL CHEMISTRY SOIL PH SOILS

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