8a2451f8-7999-47c4-9e2a-8e9567377ffb 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 2025-11-13T16:17:39 UK GEMINI 2.3 WGS 84 OSGB 1936 / British National Grid Soil physical, chemical, and biological properties (0-1 m) at five long-term grassland-to-woodland land use contrasts across England, 2018-2019 2023-11-23 publication https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/8a2451f8-7999-47c4-9e2a-8e9567377ffb 10.5285/8a2451f8-7999-47c4-9e2a-8e9567377ffb doi: Reinsch, S., Lebron, I., Brentegani, M., Brooks, M., Busi, S.B., Cagnarini, C., Cooper, D., Day, J., Emmett, B.A., Fitos, E., Goodall, T., Griffiths, R., Jones, B., Keenan, P., Keith, A., Lopes-Mazzetto, J.M., Mason, K., Pallett, D., Pereira, G., Pinder, A., Robinson, D.A., Cosby, B.J. (2023). Soil physical, chemical, and biological properties (0-1 m) at five long-term grassland-to-woodland land use contrasts across England, 2018-2019. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/8a2451f8-7999-47c4-9e2a-8e9567377ffb This dataset contains soil chemical, physical and biological properties for up to six soil layers between 0 and 100 cm, measured once at each of the five long-term grassland-to-woodland land use contrasts across England between November 2018 and March 2019. Each of the plots was further divided into three grids (grassland grids 1 to 3 / woodland grids 4 to 6) with grids 1 and 6 being the furthest apart. The contrast boundary is between grids 3 and 4. In each plot, nine sampling locations were randomly sampled (three in each grid). The five grassland-to-woodland contrasts were located across England: Gisburn (Gisburn-1, Gisburn-2), Alice Holt, Wytham Woods, and Kielder Forest. Common soil physical and chemical properties were measured; field water content, soil water content, electrical conductivity, bulk density, pH in DIW, pH in CaCl2, Loss-on-ignition, total soil carbon, total soil nitrogen, and total soil phosphorus. Less common properties were also measured; extractable soil nitrogen, dissolved organic carbon, soil aggregate sizes, and soil texture. And for specific soil cores these additional following properties were measured; soil density fractions and their carbon and nitrogen contents, cation exchange capacity, Sodium concentration, potassium concentration, calcium concentration, magnesium concentration, and extracellular enzyme activities. Derived metrics resulting from the bioinformatic processing of the raw sequence files are provided as part this dataset. The properties in this dataset are co-located with ANPP estimates, litter layer depth measurements, soil hydraulic measurements (soil water release curves and hydraulic conductivity), earthworm counts and identification. A file is provided to connect all co-located measurements. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/8a2451f8-7999-47c4-9e2a-8e9567377ffb Reinsch, S. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk pointOfContact Reinsch, S. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4649-0677 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 Lebron, I. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8610-9717 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 Brentegani, M. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Brooks, M. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Busi, S.B. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7559-3400 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 Cagnarini, C. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5106-2429 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 Cooper, D. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Day, J. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Emmett, B.A. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2713-4389 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 Fitos, E. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Goodall, T. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1526-4071 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 Griffiths, R. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3341-4547 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 Jones, B. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4428-583X 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 Keenan, P. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Keith, A. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9619-1320 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 Lopes-Mazzetto, J.M. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Mason, K. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3426-3178 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 Pallett, D. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Pereira, G. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Pinder, A. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Robinson, D.A. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7290-4867 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 Cosby, B.J. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5645-3373 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 UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk owner Soil theme GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication soil biology soil chemistry soil subsoil grassland GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3 2019-01-28 creation Soil carbon SOC woodland topsoil soil physics microbial genes meta genome co-located measurements SOC-D UK-SCAPE 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: Reinsch, S., Lebron, I., Brentegani, M., Brooks, M., Busi, S.B., Cagnarini, C., Cooper, D., Day, J., Emmett, B.A., Fitos, E., Goodall, T., Griffiths, R., Jones, B., Keenan, P., Keith, A., Lopes-Mazzetto, J.M., Mason, K., Pallett, D., Pereira, G., Pinder, A., Robinson, D.A., Cosby, B.J. (2023). Soil physical, chemical, and biological properties (0-1 m) at five long-term grassland-to-woodland land use contrasts across England, 2018-2019. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/8a2451f8-7999-47c4-9e2a-8e9567377ffb textTable English utf8 environment biota 2018-11-01 2019-03-31 -6.452 1.768 49.864 55.812 Comma-separated values (CSV) NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/8a2451f8-7999-47c4-9e2a-8e9567377ffb Download the data Download a copy of this data download https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/8a2451f8-7999-47c4-9e2a-8e9567377ffb.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 In each plot, nine sampling locations were randomly sampled (three in each grid). At each sampling location 18, 100 cm soil cores were taken. For all the soil cores, the following common soil physical and chemical properties were measured in up to six depth increments: field water content, soil water content, electrical conductivity, bulk density, pH in DIW, pH in CaCl2, Loss-on-ignition, total soil carbon, total soil nitrogen, total soil phosphorus. Also, the following less common chemical, physical and biological properties were measured in one topsoil and one subsoil increment; extractable soil nitrogen, dissolved organic carbon, soil aggregate sizes, soil texture. For the soil cores from grids 2 and 5 the following additional soil properties were measured: soil density fractions and their carbon and nitrogen contents, cation exchange capacity, sodium concentration, potassium concentration, calcium concentration, magnesium concentration, extracellular enzyme activities. The raw sequence files from the microbial analyses of bacterial and fungal marker genes (16S rRNA gene, and ITS regions respectively) and shotgun whole genome sequencing have been deposited in the European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) under project accession PRJEB66294 (https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/browser/view/PRJEB66294). All the physical, chemical, and biological properties were measured using standard techniques, see the supporting documentation for more details.