Substrate utilisation profiles and moisture content data from soil sampled in an upland grassland experiment at Sourhope, Scotland [NERC Soil Biodiversity Programme]

• Published by: Environmental Information Data Centre
• Last updated: 06 July 2024
• Topic: Not added
• Licence: Other Licence ; View licence information

Summary

These data comprise substrate utilisation profiles (using the BIOLOG gram-negative method) and moisture content data from soil sampled in an upland grassland experiment at Sourhope, Scotland. BIOLOG-GN (gram-negative) substrate utilisation analyses were used to give an indication of the ability of a subset of the bacterial community to utilise various carbon sources. These data include both temporal and spatial diversity in different depths of semi-natural grassland soil cores collected at different sample dates. Samples were collected in July 1999, October 1999, April 2000 and August 2000. Data were collected as part of the NERC Soil Biodiversity Thematic 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 (Grid reference: NT 8545 1963). 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/c42b0e3b-69e4-4941-addf-20c2e0612c58

More from this publisher

All datasets from Environmental Information Data Centre

Related datasets

• Substrate utilisation profiles for saprotrophic fungi and moisture content data from soil sampled in an upland grassland experiment at Sourhope, Scotland, 2001 [NERC Soil Biodiversity Programme]
• Soil protozoa data from Sourhope field experiment site, Scotland [NERC Soil Biodiversity Programme]
• Botanical data from Sourhope field experiment site, Scotland, 1999-2002 [NERC Soil Biodiversity Programme]
• Earthworm data from Sourhope field experiment site, Scotland, 1999 and 2001 [NERC Soil Biodiversity Programme]

Search

Data links

Link to the data	Format	File added	Data preview
Download the data	N/A	06 July 2024	Not available
Supporting information	ZIP	06 July 2024	Not available

Additional information

View additional metadata

• Added to data.gov.uk: 2024-07-04
• Access contraints: © 2018 University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
• Harvest GUID: c42b0e3b-69e4-4941-addf-20c2e0612c58
• Extent: Latitude: 55.475° to 55.468°
• Extent: Longitude: -2.237° to -2.222°
• Dataset reference date: 2018-01-25 (publication)
• Dataset reference date: 2000-08-31 (creation)
• Frequency of update: notPlanned
• Responsible party: (pointOfContact, author, custodian, publisher); Macaulay Land Use Research Institute (author)
• ISO 19139 resource type: dataset
• Metadata language: eng
• Source Metadata: XML
• Source Metadata: HTML

Contact

Enquiries

Environmental Information Data Centre

Freedom of Information (FOI) requests

UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiry service Freedom of information requests for this dataset

Licence information

[]