Soil state and environmental parameters across geo-linked sampling locations on grassland, UK (2016)

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

Date (Publication): 2019-09-11

Date (Creation): 2018-11-15

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/2a817dbf-097f-45b4-85bd-745f4e78e656

Citation identifier: doi: / 10.5285/2a817dbf-097f-45b4-85bd-745f4e78e656

Other citation details: 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

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NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre		info@eidc.ac.uk	Custodian
NERC Environmental Information Data Centre		info@eidc.ac.uk	Publisher
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	Dos Santos Pereira, G.	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

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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

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Other constraints: 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

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Begin date: 2015-06-15

End date: 2016-06-15

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

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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 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.

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