Identification

Title

Wood decomposition data from an experiment in Malaysian Borneo, 2015-2018

Abstract

This dataset measures the decomposition of experimental wood blocks, Pinus radiata, over a period of one year in lowland, old growth, tropical rainforest. Wood blocks are placed on the ground or suspended above the ground in mesh bags that either allow or prevent entry of macro-invertebrates. The decomposition of ground placed wood blocks is measured during a period of drought and non-drought. Dry weight of wood blocks is measured at the start and end of the year and proportional weight loss is calculated. Accompanying decomposition data is a data set measuring temperature and relative humidity at 5 m vertical intervals from the ground to the canopy. This data is a contribution from the UK NERC-funded Biodiversity And Land-use Impacts on Tropical Ecosystem Function (BALI) consortium (http://bali.hmtf.info). Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/01034680-e640-44a2-aab6-2044b4672a95

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/01034680-e640-44a2-aab6-2044b4672a95

name: Download the data

description: Download a copy of this data

function: download

https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/01034680-e640-44a2-aab6-2044b4672a95.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/01034680-e640-44a2-aab6-2044b4672a95

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

originating controlled vocabulary

title

Wikidata

reference date

date type

creation

effective date

2012-10-29

Keyword set

keyword value

tropical rainforest

decomposition

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

116.016

East bounding longitude

117.016

North bounding latitude

4.705

South bounding latitude

4.159

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

2015-01-04

End position

2017-12-31

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2018-12-18

Frequency of update

Quality and validity

Lineage

Twelve 50 m x 50 m experimental plots were located in lowland, tropical rainforest in Maliau Basin Conservation Area (MBCA), this included: four control plots, four ant suppression plots and four termite suppression plots. In ant suppression plots ground-dwelling ants were suppressed and in termite suppression plots ground-dwelling termites were suppressed. All plots were established in October 2014 and suppression of ants and termites was maintained until October 2017. From 2015 to 2016 an El-Niño Southern Oscillation event caused drought in this study area. Wood blocks were placed on the ground and suspended at different heights above ground across all 12 experimental plots from 2016 to 2017 and left for between 349 and 365 days. Wood blocks were also placed on the ground across all control plots and termite suppression plots during a period of drought (from 2015 to 2016) and left for 365 days. All wood blocks were placed in mesh bags that either excluded macro-invertebrates or allowed macro-invertebrates access to the wood block. For wood blocks placed from 2016 to 2017, a visual score of between 0 and 4 was assigned to each wood block to describe fungal damage and termite damage. All wood blocks were dried and proportional weight loss calculated using the same method. Temperature and humidity data was measured over a period of 5 days in each control plot during 2016.

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

© Natural Environment Research Council

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

© University of Liverpool

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

If you reuse this data, you should cite: Law, S.J. , Ashton, L. , Griffiths, H. , Eggleton, P., Parr, C. (2018). Wood decomposition data from an experiment in Malaysian Borneo, 2015-2018. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/01034680-e640-44a2-aab6-2044b4672a95

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

organisation name

University of Liverpool

email address

Stephanie.Law@liverpool.ac.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Responsible party

organisation name

University of Liverpool

email address

Stephanie.Law@liverpool.ac.uk

responsible party role

author

Responsible party

organisation name

The University of Hong Kong

email address

lashton@hku.hk

responsible party role

author

Responsible party

organisation name

University of Liverpool

email address

Hannah.Griffiths@liverpool.ac.uk

responsible party role

author

Responsible party

organisation name

Natural History Museum

email address

p.eggleton@nhm.ac.uk

responsible party role

author

Responsible party

organisation name

University of Liverpool

email address

Kate.Parr@liverpool.ac.uk

responsible party role

author

Responsible party

organisation name

NERC Environmental Information Data Centre

email address

info@eidc.ac.uk

responsible party role

publisher

Responsible party

organisation name

Environmental Information Data Centre

email address

info@eidc.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

2020-08-04T09:33:12

Metadata language

eng