4e6a2e58-6916-4212-8b2e-e30942b0a05a 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 2025-11-13T16:17:49 UK GEMINI 2.3 OSGB 1936 / British National Grid Coastal Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability (CBESS) sediment particle size in mudflat and saltmarsh habitats 2015-12-31 publication 2013-08-01 creation https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/4e6a2e58-6916-4212-8b2e-e30942b0a05a 10.5285/4e6a2e58-6916-4212-8b2e-e30942b0a05a doi: Wood, C.L., Hawkins, S.J., Godbold, J.A., Solan, M. (2015). Coastal Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability (CBESS) sediment particle size in mudflat and saltmarsh habitats. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/4e6a2e58-6916-4212-8b2e-e30942b0a05a The dataset details particle size of sediments across six intertidal sites in the winter and summer of 2013. The data provide a quantitative measure of the sediment particle size fractions present within surface sediments (up to a depth of 2 cm). Three sites were located in Essex, South East England and the other 3 in Morecambe Bay, North West England. Each site consisted of a saltmarsh habitat and adjacent mudflat habitat. 22 sampling quadrats were placed in each habitat covering four spatial scales. three replicate samples of surface sediment were collected at each quadrat. They were then processed using laser particle size analysis. Values are expressed as different metrics of particle size and as specified size fractions as percentages of the total. 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/10.5285/4e6a2e58-6916-4212-8b2e-e30942b0a05a Solan, M. University of Southampton m.solan@soton.ac.uk pointOfContact Wood, C.L. University of Southampton c.l.wood@soton.ac.uk author Hawkins, S.J. University of Southampton S.J.Hawkins@soton.ac.uk author Godbold, J.A. University of Southampton J.A.Godbold@soton.ac.uk author Solan, M. University of Southampton m.solan@soton.ac.uk author NERC Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian University of Southampton EMAIL NOT PROVIDED owner notPlanned Dataset is complete. Habitats and Biotopes theme GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication season intertidal zone benthic ecosystem sediment salt marsh GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3 2019-01-28 creation Essex Morecambe Bay United Kingdom GeoNames 2006-01-01 creation BESS CBESS particle size mudflat spatial scale otherRestrictions no limitations otherRestrictions This resource is made available under the terms of the Open Government Licence otherRestrictions © University of Southampton otherRestrictions If you reuse this data, you should cite: Wood, C.L., Hawkins, S.J., Godbold, J.A., Solan, M. (2015). Coastal Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability (CBESS) sediment particle size in mudflat and saltmarsh habitats. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/4e6a2e58-6916-4212-8b2e-e30942b0a05a textTable English utf8 oceans 2013-01-01 2013-08-01 -3 1 51.5 54.25 Comma-separated values (CSV) NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/4e6a2e58-6916-4212-8b2e-e30942b0a05a Download the data Download a copy of this data download https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/4e6a2e58-6916-4212-8b2e-e30942b0a05a.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 The location of the sample sites was determined by randomly allocated quadrats. Twenty-two 1 x 1 m quadrats were randomly allocated to each mudflat and saltmarsh site using R (R Development Core Team, 2014) to specify 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). Mudflats: surface scrapes of sediment were taken. Saltmarsh: sediment was cut from 2cm below the surface. All samples were frozen at minus 20 degrees and then analysed using the Malvern Mastersizer protocol for particle size analysis, full details of which can be found here: http://www.geog.cam.ac.uk/facilities/laboratories/techniques/loi.html