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Title:
Soil profile morphology and chemistry, Allegheny National Forest, PA, 1997-2017
Author(s):
Bailey, Scott W.; Long, Robert P.; Horsley, Stephen B.
Publication Year:
2022
How to Cite:
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Bailey, Scott W.; Long, Robert P.; Horsley, Stephen B. 2022. Soil profile morphology and chemistry, Allegheny National Forest, PA, 1997-2017. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2021-0022
Abstract:
These data are associated with a 50-year study of soil change on the Allegheny National Forest in northwestern Pennsylvania that began in 1967. In 1997 and 2017, we relocated and sampled 4 of the sites originally sampled in 1967. At each site and each year, four test pits were dug by backhoe. Soil profiles were described and sampled by genetic horizon. In addition, 10 forest floor pin blocks were sampled at each site in 1997, 1998, 1999, and 16 at each site in 2017. Samples were subject to a number of chemical analyses. This data publication consists of three files that include (1) soil horizon samples from 32 backhoe-dug pits, 16 sampled in 1997 and 16 sampled in 2017 where each genetic soil horizon is described using standard soil morphology procedures and analyzed with typical soil analytical methods for pH, extractable cations, and total carbon and nitrogen; (2) quantitative pinblock samples for thickness of forest floor (Oi, Oe, Oa, and A) horizons; and (3) quantitative pinblock samples for mass of forest floor (Oi, Oe, Oa and A) horizons and chemistry (same parameters as the pit samples) for Oa and A horizons only.

Keywords:
biota; environment; geoscientificInformation; Forest & Plant Health; Air, soil, water pollution (environmental injury); Climate change; Carbon; Environment and People; Impact of people on environment; Ecology, Ecosystems, & Environment; Landscape ecology; Soil; Inventory, Monitoring, & Analysis; Monitoring; forest soil; soil monitoring; soil acidification; soil carbon; calcium; magnesium; aluminum; pH; Pennsylvania; Warren County; Allegheny National Forest
Related publications:
  • Bailey, Scott W.; Horsley, Stephen B.; Long, Robert P. 2005. Thirty years of change in forest soils of the Allegheny Plateau, Pennsylvania. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 69(3): 681-690. https://doi.org/10.2136/sssaj2004.0057
  • Bailey, Scott W.; Long, Robert P.; Horsley, Stephen B. 2021. Forest soil cation dynamics and increases in carbon on the Allegheny Plateau, PA, USA following a period of strongly declining acid deposition. Soil Systems. 5(1): 16. https://doi.org/10.3390/soilsystems5010016
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