Moscow FSL - Microbial Processes - Priest River LTSP Description

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Site/Soil Description:

Located on a bench adjoining the Priest River.
Receives about 83.8 cm of ppt annually.
Mean annual temperature is 6.6°C.
Habitat type was classified as Tsuga heterophylla/Clintonia uniflora.
Soil was classified as Ochreptic Fragixeralf - Mission series. Silt loam surface 28-38 cm thick, is silty clay loam derived from lacustrine sediments. Soil is underlain with 60-100 cm of gravelly to very gravelly sands and sandy loams deposited by alluvial processes.

Undisturbed:

Substrate	OM (Mg ha⁻¹)	C (Mg ha⁻¹)	N (kg ha⁻¹)
Forest floor	079	46	884
Soil wood	70	29	103
Mineral (0-10 cm)	115	39	3110
Mineral (10-30 cm)	68	20	556

Habitat type: Abies grandis/Clintonia uniflora complex with a silt loam, medial, frigid Orchreptic Fragixeralf soil
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