The data set contains a subset of the Worldwide Organic Soil Carbon and Nitrogen (Zinke et al. 1986) data set for southern Africa. The subset was created for the study area of the SAFARI 2000 Project in southern Africa (i.e., 5 degrees N to 35 degrees S and 5 degrees W to 60 degrees W. The point data are available in three formats: a comma-delimited ASCII file (*.csv), an ESRI shapefile, and an ESRI export file (*.e00).
The data were obtained from soil surveys by Zinke and soil survey literature. The main samples for laboratory analyses were collected at uniform soil increments and included bulk density determinations. Many samples reported in the literature did not have uniform soil increments or bulk density determinations. Only soil profiles that had been sampled either to a meter in depth or to actual depth were included in this data base from soil survey literature. In literature where bulk densities were absent, densities were estimated by regressions based on organic carbon content of the soil samples associated with the profile using 1800 soil profiles for which bulk densities were known.
More information can be found at: http://daac.ornl.gov/daacdata/safari2k/soils/Zinke_soil/comp/zinke_readme.pdf.
Cite this data set as follows:
Zinke, P. J., A. G. Stangenberger, W. M. Post, W. R. Emanuel, and J. S. Olson. 2002. SAFARI 2000 Organic Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Data (Zinke et al.). Data set. Available on-line [http://www.daac.ornl.gov] from Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, U.S.A. doi:10.3334/ORNLDAAC/638.
Post, W. M., W. R. Emanuel, P. J. Zinke, and A. G. Stangenberger. 1982. Soil carbon pools and world life zones. Nature 298:156-159.
Post, W. M., J. Pastor, P. J. Zinke, and A. G. Stangenberger. 1985. Global patterns of soil nitrogen storage. Nature 317:613-616.
Zinke, P. J., A. G. Stangenberger, W. M. Post, W. R. Emanuel, and J. S. Olson. 1986. Worldwide Organic Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Data. NDP-018 [http://cdiac.esd.ornl.gov/ndps/ndp018.html]. Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
Zinke, P. J., A. G. Stangenberger, W. M. Post, W. R. Emanuel, and J. S. Olson. 1984. Worldwide Organic Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Data. ORNL/TM-8857. Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
Information about the data format and the procedure used to create the southern African subset are in the following file: http://daac.ornl.gov/daacdata/safari2k/soils/Zinke_soil/comp/zinke_readme.pdf.
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