01034680-e640-44a2-aab6-2044b4672a95 English ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1) dataset dataset NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg Lancaster LA1 4AP UK info@eidc.ac.uk https://eidc.ac.uk/ EIDC website The Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC) is the UK's national data centre for terrestrial and freshwater sciences. information pointOfContact 2025-11-13T16:24:19 UK GEMINI 2.3 WGS 84 Wood decomposition data from an experiment in Malaysian Borneo, 2015-2018 2018-12-18 publication https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/01034680-e640-44a2-aab6-2044b4672a95 10.5285/01034680-e640-44a2-aab6-2044b4672a95 doi: 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 10.5285/01034680-e640-44a2-aab6-2044b4672a95 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 Law, S. University of Liverpool Stephanie.Law@liverpool.ac.uk pointOfContact Law, S.J. University of Liverpool Stephanie.Law@liverpool.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8362-4702 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Ashton, L. The University of Hong Kong lashton@hku.hk https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6471-0827 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Griffiths, H. University of Liverpool Hannah.Griffiths@liverpool.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4800-8031 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Eggleton, P. Natural History Museum p.eggleton@nhm.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1420-7518 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Parr, C. University of Liverpool Kate.Parr@liverpool.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1627-763X ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author NERC Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian tropical rain forest decomposition GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3 2019-01-28 creation otherRestrictions no limitations otherRestrictions This resource is made available under the terms of the Open Government Licence otherRestrictions © Natural Environment Research Council otherRestrictions © University of Liverpool otherRestrictions 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 textTable 100 English utf8 biota 2015-01-04 2017-12-31 116.016 117.016 4.159 4.705 Comma-separated values (CSV) NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/01034680-e640-44a2-aab6-2044b4672a95 Download the data Download a copy of this data download https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/01034680-e640-44a2-aab6-2044b4672a95.zip Supporting information Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset information dataset dataset 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 2010-12-08 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.