Soil Physico-Chemical Attributes from Samford Peri-Urban Site 2013

Encompassing soil physico-chemical data collected in 2013 at the Samford Peri-Urban site to provide contextual information for the Biomes of Australian Soil Environments (BASE) microbial diversity project. The data includes chemical and physical soil attributes analyzed from pasture and lawn environments.

Use Cases

• Analyze soil physico-chemical properties from the Samford site to correlate with microbial diversity data from the BASE project.
• Model relationships between soil chemistry and physical attributes within peri-urban pasture and lawn ecosystems.
• Use soil attribute data as environmental covariates for ecological studies of the Samford region.

Strengths

• Data is associated with the authoritative Biomes of Australian Soil Environments (BASE) project.
• Provides contextual soil data for a specific and documented location (Samford Peri-Urban site) and year (2013).
• Covers multiple soil attribute types, including chemical and physical properties.

Limitations

• The specific number of data rows, columns, and sample size is unknown.
• Data is from a single year (2013) and a single geographic site, limiting temporal and spatial analysis.
• The available file formats include HTML and PNG, which may be less convenient for direct analysis than structured data files.

Provenance

Source

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery

Collection Method

Soil collection and laboratory analysis of chemical and physical attributes.

Time Range

2013

Freshness

The metadata was last updated in March 2026, but the underlying data collection occurred in 2013.

Geography

Samford Peri-Urban site, Australia