60952512-b682-4bd6-a609-365f64944fda 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 2025-11-13T16:20:10 UK GEMINI 2.3 WGS 84 Stand-scale multiproxy palaeoecological data from Cambusurich Wood, Scotland 2024-10-16 publication 2024-10-16 creation https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/60952512-b682-4bd6-a609-365f64944fda 10.5285/60952512-b682-4bd6-a609-365f64944fda doi: Everard, A.M., Schofield, J.E., Mighall, T., Timpany, S., Plunkett, G. (2024). Stand-scale multiproxy palaeoecological data from Cambusurich Wood, Scotland. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/60952512-b682-4bd6-a609-365f64944fda This dataset contains information about multiple palaeoecological proxies – pollen, non-pollen palynomorphs, spores, microcharcoal, plant macrofossils and macrocharcoal – generated from stand-scale (forest hollow-based) analyses of Cambusurich Wood Site of Special Scientific Interest, Scotland (Ordnance Survey grid reference: NN 62741 34679). The site’s chronology and loss-on-ignition (LOI) analyses are also provided. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/60952512-b682-4bd6-a609-365f64944fda Everard, A.M. School of Geosciences, University of Aberdeen annabel.everard35@gmail.com https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8948-2007 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 pointOfContact Everard, A.M. School of Geosciences, University of Aberdeen annabel.everard35@gmail.com https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8948-2007 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 Schofield, J.E. School of Geosciences, University of Aberdeen j.e.schofield@abdn.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1379-0753 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 Mighall, T. School of Geosciences, University of Aberdeen t.mighall@abdn.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8365-7694 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 Timpany, S. Archaeology Institute, University of Highlands and Islands Scott.Timpany@uhi.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3845-023X 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 Plunkett, G. School of Natural and Built Environment, Queen’s University Belfast g.plunkett@qub.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1014-3454 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 University of Aberdeen EMAIL NOT PROVIDED owner NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher Geology theme GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication Environmental survey paleoecology woodland and forest palaeoecology stand-scale pollen plant microfossils non-pollen palynomorphs otherRestrictions no limitations otherRestrictions This resource is available under the terms of the Open Government Licence otherRestrictions If you reuse this data, you should cite: Everard, A.M., Schofield, J.E., Mighall, T., Timpany, S., Plunkett, G. (2024). Stand-scale multiproxy palaeoecological data from Cambusurich Wood, Scotland. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/60952512-b682-4bd6-a609-365f64944fda textTable English utf8 climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere -8.648 -0.728 54.634 60.861 Comma-separated values (CSV) NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/60952512-b682-4bd6-a609-365f64944fda Download the data Download a copy of this data download https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/60952512-b682-4bd6-a609-365f64944fda.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 This data was generated as part of a study of the long-term dynamics in ancient temperate woodland of high conservation value. The palaeoecological proxies were analysed from two sets of duplicate parallel peat cores extracted from a closed-canopy forest hollow using a large Russian corer until the base of the peat sequence. Macrofossil analyses was performed on one set of cores and the other proxies were analysed on the second set. Pollen analyses was performed at 2 cm intervals using standard techniques (as described in Moore et al., 1991) with dense-media separation following Nakagawa et al. (1998). Pollen nomenclature follows Bennett (1995-2007) with Corylus-type used to refer to indistinguishable grains of Corylus avellana and Myrica gale. Non-pollen palynomorphs (NPPs) and microcharcoal was identified and counted on pollen slides. NPP nomenclature follows Miola (2012). Macrofossil analyses was performed on 2 cm thick contiguous samples following the method described in Field et al. (2000) and samples were disaggregated prior to sieving by heating for 45 minutes in 8 % NaOH. Macrofossils were recorded as absolute values with undifferentiated remains recorded on a 4-point scale of rare (< 10 individuals), occasional (10-50 individuals), frequent (50-100 individuals), or abundant (> 100). Loss-on-ignition (LOI) methodology followed Heiri et al. (2001) at 2 cm sample intervals and sediment stratigraphy was described using the Troels Smith (1955) system. Site chronological controls includes eight Accelerator Mass Spectrometry radiocarbon dates and the base of a 210Pb curve. Coauthors have verified the data and it has been split into five comma separated .csv files which can be used for single or multi-proxy analyses. These csv files contain: (1) raw microfossil count data, (2) raw macrofossil data, (3) site chronological controls, (4) loss-on-ignition and (6) sediment stratigraphy.