1cebca07-dd82-4ba2-823b-274868abda42 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 2025-11-13T16:27:09 UK GEMINI 2.3 OSGB 1936 / British National Grid Bacterial community structure and soil process data from a sewage sludge amended upland grassland soil experiment, 2000 [NERC Soil Biodiversity Programme] 2018-08-20 publication https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/1cebca07-dd82-4ba2-823b-274868abda42 10.5285/1cebca07-dd82-4ba2-823b-274868abda42 doi: Gray, N.D., Hastings, R.C., Sheppard, S.K., Loughnane, P., Lloyd, D., McCarthy, A.J., Head, I.M. (2018). Bacterial community structure and soil process data from a sewage sludge amended upland grassland soil experiment, 2000 [NERC Soil Biodiversity Programme]. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/1cebca07-dd82-4ba2-823b-274868abda42 This set of data comprises temporal temperature gradient electrophoresis (TTGE) and soil process measurements, used to analyse the effects of perturbations (sludge and/or lime application) on the structure, community development and activity of bacteria that catalyse fundamental processes in upland soils. These were collected to address the following questions: Do soil improvement treatments select for particular components of bacterial populations and hence drive community development? If so, at what functional and phylogenetic level is this selection expressed? Can any changes in community structure be related to changes in the function of the community or is biogeochemical function independent of community structure and controlled by other mechanisms? The work was part of the NERC Soil Biodiversity Thematic Programme, which was established in 1999 and was centred upon the intensive study of a large field experiment located at the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute (now the James Hutton Institute) farm at Sourhope in the Scottish Borders. During the experiment, the site was monitored to assess changes in above-ground biomass production (productivity), species composition and relative abundance (diversity). Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/1cebca07-dd82-4ba2-823b-274868abda42 Gray, N.D. Newcastle University enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Hastings, R.C. University of Liverpool enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Sheppard, S.K. Cardiff University enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Loughnane, P. University of Liverpool enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Lloyd, D. Cardiff University enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author McCarthy, A.J. University of Liverpool enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Head, I.M. Newcastle University enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author NERC Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher Sier, A. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk pointOfContact NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian notPlanned Soil theme GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication soil methane ammonia GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3 2019-01-28 creation TTGE Sourhope Scottish borders Soil pH Soil moisture Soil ammonia Total organic carbon Total Kjeldahl nitrogen Soil respiration rate Soil ammonia oxidation potential Soil de-nitrification potential Soil methane production Soil methane oxidisation potential otherRestrictions no limitations otherRestrictions This resource is made available under the terms of the Open Government Licence otherRestrictions © University of Wales otherRestrictions © University of Liverpool otherRestrictions © University of Newcastle otherRestrictions If you reuse this data, you should cite: Gray, N.D., Hastings, R.C., Sheppard, S.K., Loughnane, P., Lloyd, D., McCarthy, A.J., Head, I.M. (2018). Bacterial community structure and soil process data from a sewage sludge amended upland grassland soil experiment, 2000 [NERC Soil Biodiversity Programme]. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/1cebca07-dd82-4ba2-823b-274868abda42 textTable English utf8 environment 1999-05-02 2000-11-24 -2.244 -2.205 55.464 55.481 Comma-separated values (CSV) NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/1cebca07-dd82-4ba2-823b-274868abda42.zip Supporting information Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset information https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/datastore/eidchub/1cebca07-dd82-4ba2-823b-274868abda42 Download the data Download a copy of this data fileAccess 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 Data were collected as part of the NERC Soil Biodiversity Thematic Programme, which was established in 1999 and was centred upon the intensive study of a large field experiment located at the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute (MLURI) (now the James Hutton Institute) farm at Sourhope in the Scottish Borders (Grid reference: NT 8545 1963). Data were collected by students and staff, following defined protocols, as recounted in supporting information. Data from the programme were managed by the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology.