11bc98b8-5f2b-4a25-804c-16010052cdb7 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 2025-11-13T16:15:02 UK GEMINI 2.3 WGS 84 Standardised counts of bacteria, fungi and micro eukaryotes abundances across geo-linked sampling locations on grassland, UK (2016) 2019-09-11 publication 2018-10-30 creation https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/11bc98b8-5f2b-4a25-804c-16010052cdb7 10.5285/11bc98b8-5f2b-4a25-804c-16010052cdb7 doi: Griffiths, R.I., Puissant, J., Goodall, T.I. (2019). Standardised counts of bacteria, fungi and micro eukaryotes abundances across geo-linked sampling locations on grassland, UK (2016). NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/11bc98b8-5f2b-4a25-804c-16010052cdb7 The data consist of standardised counts of taxon abundances (bacteria, fungi and micro eukaryotes) from soil samples collected from paired intensive and extensive grassland systems, including low and high pH parent soils, from 32 sites across the United Kingdom. The samples were collected during winter and spring 2015-2016 from sites across the UK. DNA were extracted and taxonomic marker genes assessed using high-throughput DNA sequencing techniques to yield information about the genetic diversity and abundance of the microorganisms therein. The data were collected to help understand soil functional change in a variety of management and climatic scenarios as part of NERC U-GRASS (Understanding and enhancing soil ecosystem services and resilience in UK grass and croplands) award (NERC Reference NE/M017125/1) part of the NERC Soil Security Programme. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/11bc98b8-5f2b-4a25-804c-16010052cdb7 Goodall, T. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk pointOfContact Griffiths, R.I. Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3341-4547 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 Puissant, J. Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Goodall, T.I. Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk owner NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian NERC Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher notPlanned Soil Environmental Monitoring Facilities theme GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication fungus genetic diversity soil GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3 2019-01-28 creation Biodiversity Soil internal transcribed spacer Soil 16S ITS 18S paired ribosomal bacteria micro eukaryotes DNA sequencing otherRestrictions no limitations otherRestrictions This resource is available under the terms of the Open Government Licence otherRestrictions © UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology otherRestrictions If you reuse this data, you should cite: Griffiths, R.I., Puissant, J., Goodall, T.I. (2019). Standardised counts of bacteria, fungi and micro eukaryotes abundances across geo-linked sampling locations on grassland, UK (2016). NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/11bc98b8-5f2b-4a25-804c-16010052cdb7 textTable 11000 English utf8 biota 2015-06-15 2018-10-30 -4.828 0.797 50.437 56.249 Comma-separated values (CSV) NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/11bc98b8-5f2b-4a25-804c-16010052cdb7 Download the data Download a copy of this data download https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/11bc98b8-5f2b-4a25-804c-16010052cdb7.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 Soil samples were collected from 32 grassland sites across the United Kingdom. Total soil DNA was extracted from field moist soil. Extracted DNA was subject to taxonomic amplicon sequencing and bioinformatics processing at the facilities of the Molecular Ecology Group, Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Wallingford. The compiled data set was exported as a comma separated value file for deposition into the EIDC.