Static chamber gas fluxes and carbon and nitrogen isotope content of age-dated sediment cores from a Phragmites wetland in Sage Lot Pond, Massachusetts, 2013-2015

Coastal wetlands are major global carbon sinks, however, they are heterogeneous and dynamic ecosystems. To characterize spatial and temporal variability in a New England salt marsh, static chamber measurements of greenhouse gas (GHG) fluxes were compared among major plant-defined zones (high marsh dominated by Distichlis spicata and a zone of invasive Phragmites australis) during 2013 and 2014 growing seasons. Two sediment cores were collected in 2015 from the Phragmites zone to support previously reported core collections from the high marsh sites (Gonneea and others 2018). Collected cores were up to 70 cm in length with dry bulk density ranges from 0.04 to 0.33 grams per cubic centimeter and carbon content 22.4%...

Categories: Data; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: 137-cesium, 210-lead, Cape Cod (606914), Commonwealth of Massachusetts (606926), Constant Rate of Supply (CRS) model, All tags... Ecology, Masphee (615624), Sage Lot Pond (616458), United States of America, accretion rate, age model, biota, carbon, carbon burial, carbon isotope analysis, coastal processes, ecological processes, ecological restoration, elevation, environment, geoscientificInformation, inlandWaters, invasive species, location, nitrogen, oceans, piston coring, plot sampling, radiometric dating, salt marshes, sea-level change, sedimentation, soil chemistry, wetland ecosystems, wetland functions, wetland soils, wetlands, Fewer tags