ECU-BGC-ME_2017

Biogeochemistry/Microbial Ecology Class Project Completed Spring 2017 at East Carolina University

This repository contains open-source code, data, & text files for

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We address the following questions

• Aim): How does pyrogenic organic carbon (i.e., biochar) and soil microbes influence plant productivity and soil carbon and nitrogen content?

Repo Contents

• analyses:: An R Markdown file that includes R script written by Ariane Peralta containing functions used in analysis of plant, soil, and microbial respiration data.

• bin:

  • summarySE.R: An R script written by Micah Allen et al.
  • R_rainclouds.R: An R script written by Micah Allen et al. References: Allen M, Poggiali D, Whitaker K et al. Raincloud plots: a multi-platform tool for robust data visualization [version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review]. Wellcome Open Res 2019, 4:63 (https://doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.15191.1) Allen M, Poggiali D, Whitaker K, Marshall TR, Kievit R. (2018) RainCloudPlots tutorials and codebase (Version v1.0). Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1402959

• data:: Files associated with plant, soil, and microbial data sets.

• figures:: Figures (of plants, soils, microbial respiration) generated according to R script located in R Markdown file.

Contributors

Dr. Ariane Peralta: Co-Principal Investigator, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, East Carolina University.

Dr. Sid Mitra: Co-Principal Investigator, Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, East Carolina University.