691a823c-d1da-4420-837c-3c30ce83818b 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 2025-11-13T16:17:42 UK GEMINI 2.3 WGS 84 Plant species composition of a meadow sward exposed to grazing treatments at Somerford Mead, Oxford 1987-2014 2022-08-25 publication https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/691a823c-d1da-4420-837c-3c30ce83818b 10.5285/691a823c-d1da-4420-837c-3c30ce83818b doi: McDonald, A.W., Mountford, J.O., Stone, M.J., Gowing, D.J.G. (2022). Plant species composition of a meadow sward exposed to grazing treatments at Somerford Mead, Oxford 1987-2014. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/691a823c-d1da-4420-837c-3c30ce83818b This dataset includes a description of the flora on Somerford Mead, Oxford for the period 1987 to 2014. During the period 1991 to 2014, a grazing experiment was conducted on the meadow, in which individual plots were either grazed by sheep, grazed by cattle or left ungrazed following the annual hay cut. The data consist of list of all plant species found at sample locations within each plot together with an estimate of abundance. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/691a823c-d1da-4420-837c-3c30ce83818b McDonald, A.W. University of Oxford alison.mcdonald@plants.ox.ac.uk author Mountford, J.O. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Stone, M.J. Floodplain Meadow Partnership drmelstone@gmail.com author Gowing, D.J.G. Floodplain Meadow Partnership d.j.gowing@open.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7845-035X 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 NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher Gowing, D.J.G. Floodplain Meadow Partnership d.j.gowing@open.ac.uk pointOfContact McDonald, A.W. University of Oxford alison.mcdonald@plants.ox.ac.uk pointOfContact Ecological Continuity Trust EMAIL NOT PROVIDED owner Natural Environment Research Council EMAIL NOT PROVIDED owner Habitats and Biotopes theme GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication grazing grassland floodplain cattle GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3 2019-01-28 creation Biodiversity Floodplain Meadow Sheep Ungrazed Thames Oxfordshire Wytham Long-term Experimental otherRestrictions no limitations otherRestrictions This resource is available under the terms of the Open Government Licence otherRestrictions Dr A.W. McDonald should be acknowledged as the main originator of these data in their use and in any further dissemination otherRestrictions If you reuse this data, you should cite: McDonald, A.W., Mountford, J.O., Stone, M.J., Gowing, D.J.G. (2022). Plant species composition of a meadow sward exposed to grazing treatments at Somerford Mead, Oxford 1987-2014. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/691a823c-d1da-4420-837c-3c30ce83818b textTable 1 English utf8 biota environment farming 1987-01-01 2014-12-31 -1.338 -1.221 51.71 51.785 Comma-separated values (CSV) NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/691a823c-d1da-4420-837c-3c30ce83818b Download the data Download a copy of this data download https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/691a823c-d1da-4420-837c-3c30ce83818b.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 data were gathered on site by Dr Alison McDonald herself or by students (often Dutch) under her supervision during the period 1987 to 2013. In 2014, staff from UKCEH undertook the survey under the direction of J. Owen Mountford. Data were recorded in the field onto pre-prepared forms listing all species previously found on the site. The data were input into an Excel spreadsheet by Dr Melanie Stone on behalf of the Floodplain Meadows Partnership (FMP) in 2021. This work was funded by the Ecological Continuity Trust. The data were subsequently converted to individual text files (.csv) by Prof David Gowing (FMP). The taxonomic accuracy of the names and the species counts were checked by Dr Stone on inputting and comments added where corrections made.