Stream biofilm response to nutrient enrichment in urbanizing streams: nutrient diffusing substrate bioassay

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Elizabeth Ogata Michelle Baker

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iUTAH Data Manager Elizabeth Ogata

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Jul 10, 2016 at 2:43 a.m.

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Abstract

This resource contains the results of an experiment to test the effects of nutrients on stream biofilms at montane and urban sites in the Logan River, Red Butte Creek, and Middle Provo River watersheds located in northern Utah. We tested the effects of individual nitrogen and phosphorus additions and combined nitrogen and phosphorus additions at a series of concentrations on biofilm biomass using nutrient diffusing substrates (NDS). The Word document "methods_NDS" describes the methods used to construct the NDS and treatments included in our experiment.

At the end of the deployment period, biofilms grown on NDS were frozen. We measured chlorophyll a on half of the replicates and measured ash-free dry mass on the other half. The CSV file “biomass_nutrients_NDS” contains summary statistics (mean, standard deviation, count) of chlorophyll a concentrations and ash-free dry mass of biofilms on each nutrient treatment at our study sites. The Word document “methods_NDS” describes the analytical methods used to measure chlorophyll and ash-free dry mass.

We collected water column samples at each site for total and dissolved nutrient analyses. The CSV file “biomass_nutrients_NDS” contains total nitrogen, total phosphorus, ammonium, nitrate, and soluble reactive phosphorus concentrations at each site. The Word document “methods_NDS” describes the analytical methods used to measure nutrient concentrations.

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WGS 84 EPSG:4326

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Decimal degrees

North Latitude

41.9615°

East Longitude

-110.8809°

South Latitude

40.4010°

West Longitude

-111.9795°

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Start Date:	07/11/2014
End Date:	11/28/2014

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Name	Value
Observed variables in "biomass_nutrients_NDS" CSV file	chlorophyll a concentration (chl; mg/m2), ash-free dry mass (g/m2),total nitrogen (TN; mg N/L), total phosphorus (TP; mg P/L), ammonium (NH4-N; mg NH4-N/L), nitrate (NO3-N; mg NO3-N+NO2-N/L), soluble reactive phosphorus (SRP; mg SRP-P/L)

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This resource was created using funding from the following sources:

Agency Name	Award Title	Award Number
National Science Foundation	iUTAH-innovative Urban Transitions and Aridregion Hydro-sustainability	1208732

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Ogata, E., M. Baker (2018). Stream biofilm response to nutrient enrichment in urbanizing streams: nutrient diffusing substrate bioassay, HydroShare, http://www.hydroshare.org/resource/6612b5beff044810b83d56c4db451a85

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