Alpine Meadow Soil Properties Across Degradation Stages in Sanjiangyuan

Alpine meadow soils in the ecologically critical Sanjiangyuan region are analyzed across degradation stages. The dataset combines soil physicochemical properties, climatic variables, vegetation characteristics, microbial abundance, and trace element concentrations. Zihan Wu published this 52.0 KB Excel file on figshare in May 2026.

Use Cases

• Modeling relationships between soil degradation and trace element pools based on physicochemical and climatic variables.
• Investigating associations between soil microbial community structure and total/available trace element concentrations.
• Analyzing how vegetation characteristics correlate with soil nutrient and texture data across degradation stages.

Strengths

• Integrates multiple data domains: geographic, climatic, vegetation, soil texture, nutrients, trace elements, and microbial abundance.
• Explicitly focuses on alpine meadow degradation stages, enabling comparative analysis.
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for broad reuse.

Limitations

• The dataset is very small at 52.0 KB, indicating limited scope.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

figshare

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-15 06:45:07; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Sanjiangyuan region of the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau