2a817dbf-097f-45b4-85bd-745f4e78e656 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 2025-11-13T16:17:50 UK GEMINI 2.3 WGS 84 Soil state and environmental parameters across geo-linked sampling locations on grassland, UK (2016) 2019-09-11 publication 2018-11-15 creation https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/2a817dbf-097f-45b4-85bd-745f4e78e656 10.5285/2a817dbf-097f-45b4-85bd-745f4e78e656 doi: Griffiths, R.I., Puissant, J., Dos Santos Pereira, G., Goodall, T.I. (2019). Soil state and environmental parameters across geo-linked sampling locations on grassland, UK (2016). NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/2a817dbf-097f-45b4-85bd-745f4e78e656 Data are presented for soil state and environmental parameters of 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 by project staff experienced in soil core collection. Samples were subdivided for subsequent analysis of total Nitrogen, total Carbon, total organic Carbon, total Phosphorus, soil pH, soil moisture, loss on ignition, sand, silt, clay texture, Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) spectra and bulk density. 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/10.5285/2a817dbf-097f-45b4-85bd-745f4e78e656 NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian NERC Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher 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 Dos Santos Pereira, G. Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3740-0019 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 Goodall, T.I. Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk owner notPlanned Environmental Monitoring Facilities theme GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication grassland soil silt sand total organic carbon soil moisture land use GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3 2019-01-28 creation Soil loss on ignition U-GRASS Understanding and enhancing soil ecosystem services and resilience in UK grass and croplands Physical parameters Chemical parameters Paired total nitrogen total carbon total phosphorus soil pH LOI clay texture 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., Dos Santos Pereira, G., Goodall, T.I. (2019). Soil state and environmental parameters across geo-linked sampling locations on grassland, UK (2016). NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/2a817dbf-097f-45b4-85bd-745f4e78e656 textTable 1000 English utf8 environment 2015-06-15 2016-06-15 -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/2a817dbf-097f-45b4-85bd-745f4e78e656 Download the data Download a copy of this data download https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/2a817dbf-097f-45b4-85bd-745f4e78e656.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 and stored frozen at –20 degrees Celsius prior to subsequent processing for chemical, physical, molecular and functional characteristics. Analysis was carried out for total Nitrogen, total Carbon, total organic Carbon, total Phosphorus (CEH Lancaster), soil pH, Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) spectra, bulk density (CEH Wallingford) , soil moisture, loss on ignition (CEH Lancaster and Wallingford), sand, silt, clay texture (NRM Laboratories). Results were returned from the laboratories compiled into an Excel spreadsheet. The compiled data set was exported as a comma separated value file for deposition into the EIDC.