Identification

Title

Measurements of microarthropod community structure and diversity from an upland grassland experimental site [NERC Soil Biodiversity Programme]

Abstract

Data comprises patterns of diversity in a below-ground community of microarthropods (mites and collembola), measured during a nutrient (calcium and nitrogen) manipulation experiment, located at the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Soil Biodiversity Site in Sourhope, Scotland, UK. Data collected include abundance of microarthropods, and also microbial biomass carbon, soil respiration, wet pH using de-ionised water, soil loss on ignition, dry root biomass, total carbon and nitrogen content of soil and roots and soil moisture content. The data were collected as a component of the NERC Soil Biodiversity Programme, established in 1999 and centred upon the intensive study of a large field experiment located at the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute (now the James Hutton Institute)'s farm at Sourhope in the Scottish Borders. During this time, the site was monitored to assess changes in aboveground biomass production (productivity), species composition and relative abundance (diversity). Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/fe2ba292-08b0-428c-8e27-8c851a4a8bbc

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/fe2ba292-08b0-428c-8e27-8c851a4a8bbc.zip

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

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https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/datastore/eidchub/fe2ba292-08b0-428c-8e27-8c851a4a8bbc/

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Unique resource identifier

code

https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/fe2ba292-08b0-428c-8e27-8c851a4a8bbc

codeSpace

doi:

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

environment

biota

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

Scottish borders

Sourhope

Mites

Collembola

Microarthropods

microbial biomass carbon

soil respiration

soil pH

soil moisture

carbon

nitrogen

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-2.241

East bounding longitude

-2.218

North bounding latitude

55.48

South bounding latitude

55.471

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

1999-11-01

End position

2000-08-31

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2018-10-15

date type

creation

effective date

2000-12-01

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)'s farm at Sourhope in the Scottish Borders. Soil samples were collected by students and staff at the experimental site in 1999 and 2000 before being processed according to standard protocols. Data were then transferred to the programme data manager at 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

Â© The James Hutton Institute

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

If you reuse this data, you should cite: Cole, L., Bardgett, R.D., Buckland, S.M. (2018). Measurements of microarthropod community structure and diversity from an upland grassland experimental site [NERC Soil Biodiversity Programme]. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/fe2ba292-08b0-428c-8e27-8c851a4a8bbc

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

email address

info@eidc.ac.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2020-03-13T14:27:45

Metadata language

eng