Identification

Title

Plant biomass, soil conditions and stable isotope concentrations in soil, roots and shoots from a microcosm experiment [NERC Soil Biodiversity Programme]

Abstract

Data collected include: plant (shoot and root) biomass, a range of soil conditions including mycorrhizal abundance, microbial biomass carbon & nitrogen, soil extractable ammonia, soil extractable nitrate, soil extractable phosphate, total nitrogen content of soil and the presence of selected mite and collembolan species, and measurements associated with stable isotopes (ratio of isotopes of nitrogen in soil, roots and shoots, total carbon content of roots and shoots, ratio of isotopes of carbon in roots, total nitrogen content of fumigated and non-fumigated acid traps, ratio of isotopes of nitrogen in fumigated and non-fumigated acid traps). These data were collected from a laboratory-based study that examined a range of soil properties to investigate the relationship between microarthropods and soil microbial properties and the short-term partitioning of a dual-labelled organic nitrogen source (glycine-2-13C-15N) between a grassland plant, Agrostis capillaris, and the soil microbial biomass, to determine how soil fauna and their diversity influence plant-microbial competition for organic N. The experiment was carried out at Lancaster University using soil from the NERC Soil Biodiversity site in Scotland. The work was part of the NERC Soil Biodiversity Thematic Programme, which was established in 1999 and was centred upon the intensive study of a large field experiment located at the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute (now the James Hutton Institute) farm at Sourhope in the Scottish Borders. During the programme, the site was monitored to assess changes in above-ground biomass production (productivity), species composition and relative abundance (diversity). Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/e3c79781-09af-4c4f-b6ad-b0bc323e203f

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/e3c79781-09af-4c4f-b6ad-b0bc323e203f.zip

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

function: information

https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/datastore/eidchub/e3c79781-09af-4c4f-b6ad-b0bc323e203f/P2133_MICROCOSM_N_PULSE.csv

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code

https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/e3c79781-09af-4c4f-b6ad-b0bc323e203f

codeSpace

doi:

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

environment

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Environmental Monitoring Facilities

originating controlled vocabulary

title

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2008-06-01

Keyword set

keyword value

soil fauna

microarthropods

stable isotope concentrations

roots

shoots

soil biodiversity

microbial biomass

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-2.242

East bounding longitude

-2.212

North bounding latitude

55.482

South bounding latitude

55.469

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

2002-03-04

End position

2002-04-30

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2018-10-10

Frequency of update

notPlanned

Quality and validity

Lineage

Data were collected as part of the NERC Soil Biodiversity Thematic Programme, which was established in 1999 and was centred upon the intensive study of a large field experiment located at the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute (MLURI) (now the James Hutton Institute) farm at Sourhope in the Scottish Borders (Grid reference: NT 8545 1963). These data were collected from an experimental microcosm facility using soil from the Sourhope site. Data were collected by students and staff from Lancaster University and the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, following defined protocols. Data from the programme were managed by the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology.

Conformity

Conformity report

specification

title

Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

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

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If you reuse this data, you should cite: Cole, L., Staddon, P.L., Sleep, D., Bardgett, R.D. (2018). Plant biomass, soil conditions and stable isotope concentrations in soil, roots and shoots from a microcosm experiment [NERC Soil Biodiversity Programme]. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/e3c79781-09af-4c4f-b6ad-b0bc323e203f

pointOfContact

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

email address

info@eidc.ac.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2021-06-25T18:35:08

Metadata language

eng