186fdb05-cc14-4315-be30-fec28048b310 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 2025-11-13T16:15:13 UK GEMINI 2.3 OSGB 1936 / British National Grid Coastal Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability (CBESS) greenhouse gas fluxes in saltmarsh and mudflat habitats 2015-12-31 publication 2013-08-31 creation https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/186fdb05-cc14-4315-be30-fec28048b310 10.5285/186fdb05-cc14-4315-be30-fec28048b310 doi: Golléty, C., Davidson, I., Paterson, D.M. (2015). Coastal Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability (CBESS) greenhouse gas fluxes in saltmarsh and mudflat habitats. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/186fdb05-cc14-4315-be30-fec28048b310 The dataset details greenhouse gas fluxes as carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O) across six intertidal sites in the winter and summer of 2013. Three of the sites were in Morecambe Bay, North West England and three of the sites were in Essex, South East England, each of these sites consisted of a saltmarsh area and adjacent mudflat area, twenty two sampling quadrats were placed on each area. Light and dark incubations were performed using a benthic chamber on seven of the twenty two quadrats of each site. This data was collected as part of Coastal Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability (CBESS): NE/J015644/1. The project was funded with support from the Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability (BESS) programme. BESS is a six-year programme (2011-2017) funded by the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) as part of the UK's Living with Environmental Change (LWEC) programme. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/186fdb05-cc14-4315-be30-fec28048b310 Golléty, C. Centre Universitaire de Formation et de Recherche de Mayotte claire.gollety@univ-mayotte.fr pointOfContact Golléty, C. Centre Universitaire de Formation et de Recherche de Mayotte claire.gollety@univ-mayotte.fr author Davidson, I. University of St Andrews id1@st-andrews.ac.uk author Paterson, D.M. University of St Andrews d.paterson@st-andrews.ac.uk author NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian NERC Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher University Of St Andrews EMAIL NOT PROVIDED owner notPlanned Dataset is complete. Environmental Monitoring Facilities theme GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication salt marsh GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3 2019-01-28 creation Morecambe Bay Essex Morecambe Bay GeoNames 2006-01-01 creation North West England BESS CBESS greenhouse gas fluxes community metabolism mudflat benthic chambers otherRestrictions no limitations otherRestrictions © University Of St Andrews otherRestrictions This resource is made available under the terms of the Open Government Licence otherRestrictions If you reuse this data, you should cite: Golléty, C., Davidson, I., Paterson, D.M. (2015). Coastal Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability (CBESS) greenhouse gas fluxes in saltmarsh and mudflat habitats. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/186fdb05-cc14-4315-be30-fec28048b310 textTable English utf8 oceans 2013-01-01 2013-08-31 -3 1.009 51.684 54.25 Comma-separated values (CSV) NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/186fdb05-cc14-4315-be30-fec28048b310 Download the data Download a copy of this dataset download https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/186fdb05-cc14-4315-be30-fec28048b310.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 Each site consisted of a polygon of roughly 400 x 500 m to 1000 x 1000 m in size, dependent upon site length (parallel to shore) and width (perpendicular to shore). Twenty two 1 x 1 m quadrats were randomly placed within each site polygon using R (R Development Core Team, 2014) to specify placement at four different spatial scales (A = 1 quadrat only, B = 3 quadrats at 1 m to 10 m apart, C = 6 quadrats at 10 m to 100 m apart, D = 12 quadrats at 100 m to 1000 m or site maximum). Only the quadrat from scale A, two quadrats from scale B and four quadrats from scale C were sampled for greenhouse gas fluxes. Light and dark incubations were performed using a benthic chamber connected to an infrared gas analyser. This allowed direct measurements of CO2. CH4 and N2O fluxes were measured from gas samples collected at five time points during the dark incubation and stored in glass Exetainer bottles for later processing. The samples were analysed using a gas chromatograph.