65ecd65f-e518-4cf5-85bf-7d93e66fdb96 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 2025-11-13T16:16:01 UK GEMINI 2.3 WGS 84 Vegetation change at Whim peatbog (2002-2016) 2018-11-14 publication https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/65ecd65f-e518-4cf5-85bf-7d93e66fdb96 10.5285/65ecd65f-e518-4cf5-85bf-7d93e66fdb96 doi: 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 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 NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian NERC Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher Van Dijk, N. Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Leith, I.D. Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Sheppard, L.J. Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Jones, M. Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Levy, P.E. Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8505-1901 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 Leeson, S.R. Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author van Dijk, N. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk pointOfContact 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 Climate and climate change Ecosystem services Pollution UK-SCAPE otherRestrictions no limitations otherRestrictions This resource is made available under the terms of the Open Government Licence otherRestrictions © UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology otherRestrictions 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 textTable 1 English utf8 environment biota 2002-01-01 2016-12-31 -3.28 -3.27 55.76 55.77 Comma-separated values (CSV) NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/65ecd65f-e518-4cf5-85bf-7d93e66fdb96 Download the data Download a copy of this data download https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/65ecd65f-e518-4cf5-85bf-7d93e66fdb96.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 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.