Carbon and nitrogen content in soils and vegetation from calcareous grassland, heathland and woodland sites in Dorset, 2017-2018

• Published by: Environmental Information Data Centre
• Last updated: 29 June 2024
• Topic: Not added
• Licence: Other Licence ; View licence information

Summary

This dataset contains carbon and nitrogen data from soils and vegetation from 13 calcareous grassland, 13 heathland and 12 woodland sites within Dorset, UK. The sites were selected to represent a range of habitat types across a condition gradient as measured by levels of degradation from the original habitat. The original habitats were identified as being calcareous grassland, heathland or woodland from a survey conducted in the 1930s. Within each site, 15cm deep soil cores were taken and analysed for total nitrogen, total carbon and bulk density. Within the same area for each site, vegetation samples were taken from five 50cm quadrats and separated into herbacous or shrub layers before analysis for total carbon, total nitrogen and dry weight. Heathland and calcareous grassland sites were visited in summer 2017 and woodland sites were visited in summer 2018. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/ea43c2d1-88f5-4692-a09d-0ef4d96e0f35

More from this publisher

All datasets from Environmental Information Data Centre

Related datasets

• Botanical data for calcareous grassland, heathland and woodland sites in Dorset, UK, 2017-2018
• Pollinator data from calcareous grassland, heathland and woodland sites in Dorset, UK, 2017-2018
• Carbon and nitrogen stocks in soil organic matter fractions along grassland-to-forest conversion chronosequences across Scotland in 2018
• Total carbon and nitrogen stocks across a land use gradient on Salisbury Plain in June 2014

Search

Data links

Link to the data	Format	File added	Data preview
Supporting information	ZIP	29 June 2024	Not available
Download the data	N/A	29 June 2024	Not available

Additional information

View additional metadata

• Added to data.gov.uk: 2024-03-15
• Access contraints: If you reuse this data, you should cite: McCracken, M.E., Bullock, J.M., Ridding, L.E., Hulmes, L., Hulmes, S., Newton, A.C., Watson, S.C.L., Pereira, G.M., Hunt, A., Keenan, P. (2021). Carbon and nitrogen content in soils and vegetation from calcareous grassland, heathland and woodland sites in Dorset, 2017-2018. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/ea43c2d1-88f5-4692-a09d-0ef4d96e0f35
• Harvest GUID: ea43c2d1-88f5-4692-a09d-0ef4d96e0f35
• Extent: Latitude: 51.08° to 50.521°
• Extent: Longitude: -2.961° to -1.681°
• Dataset reference date: 2021-02-24 (publication)
• Responsible party: (pointOfContact, publisher, custodian, author, owner); University of Bournemouth (author); University of Portsmouth (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

[]