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Vegetation change at Whim peatbog (2002-2016)
The data consist of observations of cover of plant species in permanent quadrats in a nitrogen deposition experiment on a peat bog. The experiment was located at Whim Moss in central Scotland, between 2002 and 2016. Recording of cover was by visual assessment in 40 x 40 cm quadrats. The experiment was designed to look at the change in vegetation composition with different rates of deposition of nitrogen in different forms (ammonia, ammonium, and nitrate). This work was supported by the Natural Environment Research Council award number NE/R016429/1 as part of the UK-SCAPE programme delivering National Capability. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/65ecd65f-e518-4cf5-85bf-7d93e66fdb96
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- Date (Publication)
- 2018-11-14
- Citation identifier
- https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/65ecd65f-e518-4cf5-85bf-7d93e66fdb96
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- doi: / 10.5285/65ecd65f-e518-4cf5-85bf-7d93e66fdb96
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Van Dijk, N., Leith, I.D., Sheppard, L.J., Jones, M., Levy, P.E., Leeson, S.R. (2018). Vegetation change at Whim peatbog (2002-2016). NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/65ecd65f-e518-4cf5-85bf-7d93e66fdb96
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Custodian NERC Environmental Information Data Centre Publisher Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Van Dijk, N.
Author Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Leith, I.D.
Author Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Sheppard, L.J.
Author Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Jones, M.
Author Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Levy, P.E. Author Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Leeson, S.R.
Author UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology van Dijk, N.
Point of contact UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Owner
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Environmental Monitoring Facilities
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© UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
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If you reuse this data, you should cite: Van Dijk, N., Leith, I.D., Sheppard, L.J., Jones, M., Levy, P.E., Leeson, S.R. (2018). Vegetation change at Whim peatbog (2002-2016). NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/65ecd65f-e518-4cf5-85bf-7d93e66fdb96
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- Text, table
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- 1 urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
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- English
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- UTF8
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- Environment
- Biota
- Begin date
- 2002-01-01
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- 2016-12-31
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- WGS 84
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Name Version Comma-separated values (CSV)
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
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Protocol Linkage Name https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/65ecd65f-e518-4cf5-85bf-7d93e66fdb96 Download the data
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Protocol Linkage Name https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/65ecd65f-e518-4cf5-85bf-7d93e66fdb96.zip Supporting information
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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
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Data were collected by recording cover of all species occurring in permanent quadrats. The location of the quadrats was marked with canes. Cover recording was done by subjective visual assessment. Values are expressed as percentages of the ground area of the quadrat covered by that species. Data were recorded on paper in the field, and later transcribed to Excel spreadsheets. The Excel spreadsheets were processed by an R script, which corrected naming errors, and averaged values for the 16 10x10 cm sub-squares to give the 40x40 cm quadrat mean. There are some instance of unreliable data, where implausibly large changes occur from within a few years. This is likely to come from changes in quadrat position, or human error in identifying and recording the species. The data were mainly collected by Lucy Sheppard and Ian Leith, and latterly by Netty van Dijk and co-workers.
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- 65ecd65f-e518-4cf5-85bf-7d93e66fdb96 XML
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- English
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- 8859 Part 1
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dataset
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- 2025-11-13T16:16:01
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- UK GEMINI
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2.3
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Point of contact
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