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Chemical composition of Central Asian forage plants
The database of chemical composition of Central Asian forage plants contains just under 1000 desert and steppe species with information such as Latin and Russian names and family and related records of chemical composition from various sources including percentages by weight of protein, ash, cellulose and fat. Where available, it also includes data on digestible protein content, metabolisable energy and Soviet Feed Units (SFU). Records also include information on the country, location, season or month and phenological phase at time of collection of each sample. As one of the original uses of the database was for modelling food and energy intake by the saiga antelope, it also includes information identifying saiga food plant species along with sources of this information. Data on the edibility of many species for livestock in different seasons are also available. See the detailed documentation available here for more information on the data types, definitions and sources. NB The database is in text format and must be imported e.g. into relational database software, as Unicode (UTF-8) in order to convert the Cyrillic characters in Russian names. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/6a5a9a2a-730b-49f7-9e42-2295040aee56
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- Date (Publication)
- 2017-09-20
- Citation identifier
- https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/6a5a9a2a-730b-49f7-9e42-2295040aee56
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- doi: / 10.5285/6a5a9a2a-730b-49f7-9e42-2295040aee56
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Robinson, S.J. (2017). Chemical composition of Central Asian forage plants. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/6a5a9a2a-730b-49f7-9e42-2295040aee56
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Oxford University, visiting researcher
Robinson, S.
Point of contact University of Oxford Robinson, S.J. Author NERC Environmental Information Data Centre Publisher NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Custodian
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- Not planned
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Habitats and Biotopes
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If you reuse this data, you should cite: Robinson, S.J. (2017). Chemical composition of Central Asian forage plants. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/6a5a9a2a-730b-49f7-9e42-2295040aee56
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- Text, table
- Language
- English
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- UTF8
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- Biota
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- Unique resource identifier
- 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/6a5a9a2a-730b-49f7-9e42-2295040aee56 Download the data
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Protocol Linkage Name https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/6a5a9a2a-730b-49f7-9e42-2295040aee56.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
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- 2010-12-08
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The data come from a number of Soviet era sources listing thousands of records of plant chemical composition, and from an additional number of secondary or field sources compiled since 1991. All sources are listed in the database, which holds only a fraction of the total information available. See documentation for more details.
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- 6a5a9a2a-730b-49f7-9e42-2295040aee56 XML
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- English
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- 8859 Part 1
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dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-03-21T13:34:56
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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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