7815291a-ee3e-49a7-8ef1-e8baa81f4964 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 2025-11-13T16:24:09 UK GEMINI 2.3 OSGB 1936 / British National Grid Vegetation composition data from UK saltmarshes, 2018 to 2021 2022-07-05 publication https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/7815291a-ee3e-49a7-8ef1-e8baa81f4964 10.5285/7815291a-ee3e-49a7-8ef1-e8baa81f4964 doi: Ladd, C.J.T., Miller, L.C., McMahon, L., Havelock, G.M., Smeaton, C., Garbutt, A., Skov, M.W., Austin, W.E.N. (2022). Vegetation composition data from UK saltmarshes, 2018 to 2021. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/7815291a-ee3e-49a7-8ef1-e8baa81f4964 The dataset details vegetation composition of UK saltmarshes measured from quadrats across UK saltmarshes. Between 2018 and 2021, vegetation surveys were carried out at 460 sites across 33 saltmarshes as part of the Carbon Storage in Intertidal Environments (C-SIDE) project to develop an understanding the linkages between saltmarsh soil organic carbon and vegetation. Sites were chosen to represent contrasting habitats types in the UK, in particular sediment types, vegetation and sea level history. The dataset comprises of percentage species cover, plant height, plant richness and plant diversity data from 33 UK saltmarshes. The work was carried out under the NERC programme - Carbon Storage in Intertidal Environment (C-SIDE), NERC grant reference NE/R010846/1. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/7815291a-ee3e-49a7-8ef1-e8baa81f4964 Ladd, C.J.T. University of Glasgow Cai.Ladd@glasgow.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5437-6474 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 Miller, L.C. University of St Andrews lm283@st-andrews.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2876-4312 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 McMahon, L. University of York lm1536@york.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0199-7108 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 Havelock, G.M. University of York Glenn.havelock@york.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5862-1596 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 Smeaton, C. University of St Andrews cs244@st-andrews.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4535-2555 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 Garbutt, A. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9145-9786 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 Skov, M.W. Bangor University mwskov@bangor.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7204-3865 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 Austin, W.E.N. University of St Andrews wena@st-andrews.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6544-3468 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 Smeaton, C. University of St Andrews cs244@st-andrews.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4535-2555 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 NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher The University Court of the University of St Andrews court@st-andrews.ac.uk owner Habitats and Biotopes theme GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication coastal ecosystem wetland blue carbon sediment salt marsh organic matter organic carbon vegetation biological diversity GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3 2019-01-28 creation United Kingdom plant richness carbon C-SIDE substrate Scotland England Wales 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: Ladd, C.J.T., Miller, L.C., McMahon, L., Havelock, G.M., Smeaton, C., Garbutt, A., Skov, M.W., Austin, W.E.N. (2022). Vegetation composition data from UK saltmarshes, 2018 to 2021. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/7815291a-ee3e-49a7-8ef1-e8baa81f4964 textTable 15 English utf8 biota 2018-01-01 2021-12-31 -8.648 1.768 49.864 60.861 Comma-separated values (CSV) NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/7815291a-ee3e-49a7-8ef1-e8baa81f4964 Download the data Download a copy of this data download https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/7815291a-ee3e-49a7-8ef1-e8baa81f4964.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 Across 33 UK saltmarshes 460 vegetation surveys were undertaken using 1m x 1m quadrats. The location of each quadrat was recorded using Differential Global Positioning System (DGPS). Within each quadrat percentage cover of each plant species was estimated by eye. Plant height was measured at 10 random points within each quadrat. The mean plant height and standard deviation for each quadrat was calculated and reported. Plant species richness was recorded as the number of species present per quadrat and plant diversity was estimated using the Shannon-Wiener Index. Vegetation data were recorded in the field and transferred into an Excel file. Results were exported as comma separated value (.csv) files for ingestion into the EIDC.