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Hawaii Volcanoes National Park plant-soil feedbacks and fire data, 2019

Dates

Publication Date
Start Date
2019-06-01
End Date
2019-10-01

Citation

Warneke, C., Yelenik, S.G., and Brudvig, L., 2022, Hawaii Volcanoes National Park plant-soil feedbacks and fire data, 2019: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9W511KC.

Summary

This data release includes metadata and tabular data that documents growth and root nodulation of Acacia koa and Sophora chrysophylla in different soil types. Soils contained innoculum from conspecific versus heterospecific plants and were taken from areas that had burned in the 2018 Keauhou fire versus areas that had not burned . All plants were grown and data were taken in 2019 in a shadehouse structure in Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park.

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Stephanie G Yelenik, US Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station
Process Contact :
Stephanie G Yelenik, US Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station
Originator :
Christopher R Warneke, Stephanie G Yelenik, Lars Brudvig
Metadata Contact :
U.S. Geological Survey - PIERC
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase
SDC Data Owner :
Pacific Island Ecosystems Research Center
USGS Mission Area :
Ecosystems

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Hawaii Volcanoes National Park plant-soil feedbacks and fire data, 2019.xml
Original FGDC Metadata
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psf_data_for_release.csv 43.31 KB text/csv
IMG_5501_AcaciaKoa_RootNodules.JPEG
“Root nodules of the Hawaiian tree, Acacia koa. Photo: S. Yelenik.” 		thumbnail 674.98 KB image/jpeg

Purpose

Although plant-soil feedbacks (interactions between plants and soils, often mediated by soil microbes, abbreviated as PSFs) are widely known to influence patterns of plant diversity at local and landscape scales, these interactions are rarely examined in the context of fire. By changing microbial community composition, fire may alter the microbes available to colonize the roots of plants and thus seedling growth post-fire. This has potential to change the strength and/or direction of PSFs, depending on how such changes in microbial community composition occur and the plant species with which the microbes interact. We examined how a recent fire altered PSFs of two leguminous, nitrogen-fixing tree species in Hawaiʻi. These species form mutualisms with microbial rhizobia that aid in the production of nitrogen and, potentially, in the growth of the plant.
Root nodules of the Hawaiian tree, Acacia koa. Photo: S. Yelenik.
Root nodules of the Hawaiian tree, Acacia koa. Photo: S. Yelenik.

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DOI https://www.sciencebase.gov/vocab/category/item/identifier doi:10.5066/P9W511KC

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