Identification

Title

Coastal Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability (CBESS) soil moisture content from three soil depths on salt marsh sites at Morecambe Bay and Essex

Abstract

The dataset comprises the field soil moisture content expressed as a percentage at three depth zones, (0 - 10 centimetre (cm), 10 - 20 cm and 20 - 30 cm), measured from bulk density soil samples taken within each 1 metre x 1 metre quadrat. Sampling was conducted at six salt marsh sites at four spatial scales: 1 metre (m) (the minimal sampling unit) nested within a hierarchy of increasing scales of 1-10 m, 10-100 m and 100-1000 m. Three of the sites were in Morecambe Bay, North West England and three of the sites were in Essex, South East England. The Morecambe Bay samples were taken during the winter and summer of 2013. The Essex samples were taken during the winter, early spring and summer of 2013. Samples were taken using a bulk density ring. Soil moisture content was determined by weighing the samples as fresh field mass and then again after being dried out at 105 degrees Celsius for 72 hours. This data was collected as part of Coastal Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability (CBESS): NE/J015644/1. The project was funded with support from the Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability (BESS) programme. BESS is a six-year programme (2011-2017) funded by the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) as part of the UK's Living with Environmental Change (LWEC) programme. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/125a899b-8f10-4803-a6cf-a2fb1739746f

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/125a899b-8f10-4803-a6cf-a2fb1739746f

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https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/125a899b-8f10-4803-a6cf-a2fb1739746f.zip

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Unique resource identifier

code

https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/125a899b-8f10-4803-a6cf-a2fb1739746f

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

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2008-06-01

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-3

East bounding longitude

1.005

North bounding latitude

54.25

South bounding latitude

51.687

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

2013-01-01

End position

2013-08-31

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2016-05-03

date type

creation

effective date

2016-04-22

Frequency of update

notPlanned

Quality and validity

Lineage

Field soil moisture was measured from bulk density samples taken at roughly 0-10 centimetre (cm), 10-20 cm and 20-30 cm depth zones with a 3.1 cm height, 7 cm diameter bulk density ring for each quadrat. Samples were weighed (in grams to two decimal places) at fresh field mass then again after 72 hours at 105 degrees Celsius to determine water content. Data were recorded onto field sheets. These data were transferred into an Excel spreadsheet and calculations carried out. Results were exported as comma separated value files for ingestion into the EIDC. The location of the sample sites was determined by randomly allocated quadrats. Each site consisted of a rectangular area of saltmarsh between 400 x 500 metre (m) to 1000 x 1000 m in size, dependent upon saltmarsh length (parallel to shore) and width (perpendicular to shore), including part of the low, mid and high marsh zones. Twenty two 1 x 1 m quadrats were randomly allocated to each site rectangle using R (R Development Core Team, 2014) to specify four different spatial scales (A = 1 quadrat only, B = 3 quadrats at 1 m to 10 m apart, C = 6 quadrats at 10 m to 100 m apart, D = 12 quadrats at 100 m to 1000 m or site maximum).

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

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

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: Ford, H., Garbutt, A., Skov, M. (2016). Coastal Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability (CBESS) soil moisture content from three soil depths on salt marsh sites at Morecambe Bay and Essex. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/125a899b-8f10-4803-a6cf-a2fb1739746f

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

organisation name

email address

hilary.ford@bangor.ac.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Responsible party

organisation name

email address

hilary.ford@bangor.ac.uk

web address

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9882-6972

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