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    "tag": 15307,
    "title": "Static chamber gas fluxes and carbon and nitrogen isotope content of age-dated sediment cores from a Phragmites wetland in Sage Lot Pond, Massachusetts, 2013-2015",
    "pubdate": "20220526",
    "sername": null,
    "series_name": null,
    "issue": "DOI:10.5066\/P9JM751N",
    "publish": null,
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    "onlink": "https:\/\/cmgds.marine.usgs.gov\/catalog\/whcmsc\/SB_data_release\/DR_P9JM751N\/metadata_SLP_GHGFlux_Core_2015.faq.html",
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    "descript": "Coastal wetlands are major global carbon sinks; however, quantification of carbon flux can be difficult in these heterogeneous and dynamic ecosystems. To characterize spatial and temporal variability in a New England salt marsh, static chamber measurements of greenhouse gas (GHG) fluxes were compared among major plant-defined zones (high marsh dominated by Distichlis spicata and a zone of invasive Phragmites australis) during 2013 and 2014 growing seasons. Two sediment cores were collected in 2015 from the Phragmites zone to support previously reported core collections from the high marsh sites (Gonneea and others 2018). Collected cores were up to 70 cm in length with dry bulk density ranges from 0.04 to 0.33 grams per cubic centimeter and carbon content 22.4 to 46.6 percent. Gamma counting results for excess lead-210 were used to construct Constant Rate of Supply (CRS) age models to age-date individual depth intervals in the cores. Additionally, gamma counting results for other radionuclides, particularly cesium-137 gave further insight to evaluate how vertical accretion and carbon burial rates have changed during the past century.   Gonneea, M.E., O'Keefe Suttles, J.A., and Kroeger, K.D., 2018, Collection, analysis, and age-dating of sediment cores from salt marshes on the south shore of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, from 2013 through 2014: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5066\/F7H41QPP.",
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        {
            "name": "O'Keefe Suttles, Jennifer A.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Eagle, Meagan J.",
            "role": "Author"
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        {
            "name": "Martin, Rose M.",
            "role": "Author"
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        {
            "name": "Moseman-Valtierra, Serena",
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        {
            "name": "Kroeger, Kevin D.",
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            "code": "1420",
            "name": "carbon",
            "scope": "Nonmetal element with symbol C and atomic number 6 <http:\/\/periodic.lanl.gov\/6.shtml>"
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            "name": "carbon isotope analysis",
            "scope": "Experimental determination of the proportion of a given stable carbon isotope (C12 or C13) in a sample."
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            "name": "coastal processes",
            "scope": "Processes unique to coastal areas including longshore transport, beach erosion, storm surge, shoreline change, delta formation, barrier island migration, beach stabilization by vegetation"
        },
        {
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            "scope": "Dynamic biogeochemical interactions that occur among and between biotic and abiotic components of the biosphere."
        },
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        },
        {
            "thcode": 2,
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            "name": "sea-level change",
            "scope": "Variation in the relative vertical position of land and ocean waters. Caused globally by changes in the distribution of ice masses and the shape of the oceans, and locally by the rate of uplift or subsidence of the land surface.  Includes both global (eustatic) and local (relative) sea-level variations."
        },
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        },
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            "scope": "Ecosystems whose soil is saturated for long periods seasonally or continuously, including marshes, swamps, and ephemeral ponds.  More detailed terms for wetlands can be selected from the FGDC Wetland Classification <http:\/\/fgdc.gov\/standards\/status\/sub3_4.html>."
        },
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        },
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        },
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            "scope": "Information pertaining to earth sciences, for example geophysical features and processes, geology, minerals, sciences dealing with the composition, structure and origin of the earth's rocks, risks of earthquakes, volcanic activity, landslides, gravity information, soils, permafrost, hydrogeology, groundwater, erosion"
        },
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            "thcode": 15,
            "code": "012",
            "name": "inlandWaters",
            "scope": "Inland water features, drainage systems and characteristics, for example rivers and glaciers, salt lakes, water utilization plans, dams, currents, floods and flood hazards, water quality, hydrographic charts, watersheds, wetlands, hydrography"
        },
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        },
        {
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            "description": "Browse graphic is a photograph of a Phragmites sediment core, collected from Sage Lot Pond, after splitting in the laboratory."
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