Publication Date:
2024-06-12
Description:
In the Arctic, little information is available, especially in terms of N availability and composition (i.e., nitrate, ammonium, and dissolved organic nitrogen) from small, flowing waters. This data set aims to quantify N concentrations across small Arctic streams and explore the link between terrestrial vegetation and stream water N concentration. The data set is the result of a literature study where data on N water chemistry was collected and combined from peer-reviewed, published articles and data sets selected by specific criteria. 20 articles met the selected criteria along with four datasets from databases resulting in a total of 2381 observations on N water chemistry from Arctic flowing waters from 1996 to 2021. Bioclimate subzones, NDVI and phytomass describe vegetation. Data on dissolved organic nitrogen (DON) was scarce: only 161 of the 2381 observations contained DON data. We found that nitrate (NO3-), ammonium (NH4+) and DON ranged undetectable to 1155, 547 and 1587 µg N/l, respectively. We found that sparsely vegetated areas had higher stream water N-concentrations, while barren areas and higher vegetated areas had lower stream water N-concentrations.
Keywords:
Ammonium; Ammonium/Nitrate ratio; Arctic; Arctic_streams; Area/locality; Biomass, aboveground; Category; Country; Date; Description; Identification; LATITUDE; Literature based; LONGITUDE; Month; Name; Nitrate; Nitrogen; Nitrogen, inorganic, dissolved; Nitrogen, inorganic, dissolved/Nitrogen, organic, dissolved ratio; Nitrogen, organic, dissolved; Nitrogen, total dissolved; Normalized Difference Vegetation Index; Organic carbon, soil; Precipitation, annual mean; Reference/source; streams; Subzone; Temperature, air, annual mean; Temperature, air, maximum; Temperature, air, minimum; Temperature, annual mean; Uniform resource locator/link to reference; Water sample; WS; Year of publication; Year of sampling
Type:
Dataset
Format:
text/tab-separated-values, 65302 data points
