8a41b2a2-01d7-409e-adf5-fba3f3770f29 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 2025-11-13T16:21:04 UK GEMINI 2.3 OSGB 1936 / British National Grid Plant and soil responses to simulated summer drought in 2013 on Colt Park grassland restoration experiment 2019-03-20 publication https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/8a41b2a2-01d7-409e-adf5-fba3f3770f29 10.5285/8a41b2a2-01d7-409e-adf5-fba3f3770f29 doi: Cole, A.J., Griffiths, R.I., Ward, S.E., Whitaker, J., Ostle, N.J., Bardgett, R.D. (2019). Plant and soil responses to simulated summer drought in 2013 on Colt Park grassland restoration experiment. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/8a41b2a2-01d7-409e-adf5-fba3f3770f29 Data comprise measurements of plant biomass and community composition, soil microbial community composition, greenhouse gas emissions and soil carbon and nitrogen pools from a drought experiment superimposed on a the long-term Colt Park grassland restoration experiment in northern England. Rainfall was manipulated using rain-out shelters on experimental grassland plots where fertiliser application and seed addition have been managed to enhance plant species diversity. The scientific purpose was to test the hypothesis that management aimed at biodiversity restoration increases the resistance and recovery of carbon cycling to short-term summer drought. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/8a41b2a2-01d7-409e-adf5-fba3f3770f29 Cole, A. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk pointOfContact Cole, A.J. Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2617-4087 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.I. 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 Ward, S.E. Lancaster University s.e.ward@lancaster.ac.uk author Whitaker, J. Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8824-471X 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 Ostle, N.J. Lancaster University n.ostle@lancaster.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3263-3702 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 Bardgett, R.D. University of Manchester richard.bardgett@manchester.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5131-0127 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 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 carbon drought grassland biodiversity GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3 2019-01-28 creation Soil otherRestrictions no limitations otherRestrictions © UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology otherRestrictions This resource is available under the terms of the Open Government Licence otherRestrictions If you reuse this data, you should cite: Cole, A.J., Griffiths, R.I., Ward, S.E., Whitaker, J., Ostle, N.J., Bardgett, R.D. (2019). Plant and soil responses to simulated summer drought in 2013 on Colt Park grassland restoration experiment. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/8a41b2a2-01d7-409e-adf5-fba3f3770f29 textTable English utf8 environment 2013-05-09 2013-11-04 -3.64 -0.166 52.986 55.265 Comma-separated values (CSV) NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/8a41b2a2-01d7-409e-adf5-fba3f3770f29.zip Supporting information Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset information https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/datastore/eidchub/8a41b2a2-01d7-409e-adf5-fba3f3770f29 Download the data Download a copy of this data fileAccess 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 Location: Colt Park meadows, Ingleborough National Nature Reserve (latitude 54°12’N, longitude 2°21’W). The two grassland restoration treatments used in this experiment were fertiliser application and seed addition. The drought treatment was superimposed onto these two treatments. All experimental plots were cut for hay on 16 July in 2013. After the hay cut, all experimental plots were grazed by cattle and sheep. Since 1990, half of plots received continued fertiliser application and half receive no fertiliser, with the exception of 2009 and 2010 when fertiliser was not applied. Inorganic fertiliser (NPK 20:10:10; 25kg N ha-1) was applied by hand in spring (21 May in 2013). Seed addition began in 1990 with seed of 19 species being locally collected and commercially bought. The drought treatment had three levels, a) ambient, consisting of no rain-out shelter; b) control shelter, consisting of a rain shelter with holes; c) drought, consisting of a rain-out shelter. Rain-out shelters were in place from 5 June to 10 July 2013. They were constructed of transparent corrugated PVC, 0.8mm thick (Corolux, UK) and were 90cm x 105cm with a height of 38cm-63cm and a slope of 16 degrees.