Standardised counts of bacteria, fungi and micro eukaryotes abundances across geo-linked sampling locations on grassland, UK (2016)

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

Date (Publication): 2019-09-11

Date (Creation): 2018-10-30

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/11bc98b8-5f2b-4a25-804c-16010052cdb7

Citation identifier: doi: / 10.5285/11bc98b8-5f2b-4a25-804c-16010052cdb7

Other citation details: 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

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology	Goodall, T.	enquiries@ceh.ac.uk	Point of contact
Centre for Ecology & Hydrology	Griffiths, R.I.	enquiries@ceh.ac.uk	Author
Centre for Ecology & Hydrology	Puissant, J.	enquiries@ceh.ac.uk	Author
Centre for Ecology & Hydrology	Goodall, T.I.	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

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Biodiversity
Soil
internal transcribed spacer
Soil
16S
ITS
18S
paired
ribosomal
bacteria
micro eukaryotes
DNA sequencing

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Other constraints: © UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

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Other constraints: 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

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Distance: 11000 urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001

Language: English

Character set: UTF8

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Biota

Begin date: 2015-06-15

End date: 2018-10-30

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

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NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre		info@eidc.ac.uk	Distributor

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	https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/11bc98b8-5f2b-4a25-804c-16010052cdb7.zip	Supporting information

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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

Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

Statement: 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.

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Date stamp: 2025-11-13T16:15:02

Metadata standard name: UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version: 2.3

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NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre		info@eidc.ac.uk	Point of contact

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