Identification

Title

Chemical composition of Central Asian forage plants

Abstract

The database of chemical composition of Central Asian forage plants contains just under 1000 desert and steppe species with information such as Latin and Russian names and family and related records of chemical composition from various sources including percentages by weight of protein, ash, cellulose and fat. Where available, it also includes data on digestible protein content, metabolisable energy and Soviet Feed Units (SFU). Records also include information on the country, location, season or month and phenological phase at time of collection of each sample. As one of the original uses of the database was for modelling food and energy intake by the saiga antelope, it also includes information identifying saiga food plant species along with sources of this information. Data on the edibility of many species for livestock in different seasons are also available. See the detailed documentation available here for more information on the data types, definitions and sources. NB The database is in text format and must be imported e.g. into relational database software, as Unicode (UTF-8) in order to convert the Cyrillic characters in Russian names. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/6a5a9a2a-730b-49f7-9e42-2295040aee56

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/6a5a9a2a-730b-49f7-9e42-2295040aee56

name: Download the data

description: Download a copy of this data

function: download

https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/6a5a9a2a-730b-49f7-9e42-2295040aee56.zip

name: Supporting information

description: Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset

function: information

Unique resource identifier

code

https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/6a5a9a2a-730b-49f7-9e42-2295040aee56

codeSpace

doi:

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

biota

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Habitats and Biotopes

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2008-06-01

Keyword set

keyword value

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

creation

effective date

2006-01-01

Keyword set

keyword value

Central Asia

forage

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

45

East bounding longitude

90

North bounding latitude

56

South bounding latitude

35

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

End position

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2017-09-20

Frequency of update

notPlanned

Quality and validity

Lineage

The data come from a number of Soviet era sources listing thousands of records of plant chemical composition, and from an additional number of secondary or field sources compiled since 1991. All sources are listed in the database, which holds only a fraction of the total information available. See documentation for more details.

Conformity

Conformity report

specification

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-12-08

degree

explanation

Data format

name of format

Comma-separated values (CSV)

version of format

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

If you reuse this data, you should cite: Robinson, S. J. (2017). Chemical composition of Central Asian forage plants. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/6a5a9a2a-730b-49f7-9e42-2295040aee56

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

organisation name

Oxford University, visiting researcher

email address

enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Responsible party

organisation name

University of Oxford

email address

enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

responsible party role

author

Responsible party

organisation name

NERC Environmental Information Data Centre

email address

enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

responsible party role

publisher

Responsible party

organisation name

NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre

email address

enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

responsible party role

custodian

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

Environmental Information Data Centre

full postal address

Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg

Lancaster

LA1 4AP

UK

email address

info@eidc.ac.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2022-05-20T10:42:21

Metadata language