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Coastal Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability (CBESS) percentage cover of plant species on salt marsh sites at Morecambe Bay and Essex
The dataset comprises of percentage plant cover by species observed by eye in a 1metre (m) x 1m quadrat. Measurements were recorded at six salt marsh sites at four spatial scales: 1 metre (m) (the minimal sampling unit) nested within a hierarchy of increasing scales of 1-10 m, 10-100 m and 100-1000 m. Three of the sites were in Morecambe Bay, North West England and three of the sites were in Essex, South East England. Plant cover was measured during the winter and summer of 2013 for all six sites. This data was collected as part of Coastal Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability (CBESS): NE/J015644/1. The project was funded with support from the Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability (BESS) programme. BESS is a six-year programme (2011-2017) funded by the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) as part of the UK's Living with Environmental Change (LWEC) programme. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/90bdf4ff-03d9-4aa4-bcad-5139863ab188
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- Date (Publication)
- 2016-05-03
- Date (Creation)
- 2016-04-22
- Citation identifier
- https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/90bdf4ff-03d9-4aa4-bcad-5139863ab188
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- doi: / 10.5285/90bdf4ff-03d9-4aa4-bcad-5139863ab188
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Ford, H., Garbutt, A., Skov, M. (2016). Coastal Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability (CBESS) percentage cover of plant species on salt marsh sites at Morecambe Bay and Essex. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/90bdf4ff-03d9-4aa4-bcad-5139863ab188
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Bangor University Ford, H.
Point of contact Bangor University Ford, H. Author Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Garbutt, A. Author Bangor University Skov, M. Author NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Custodian NERC Environmental Information Data Centre Publisher Bangor University EMAIL NOT PROVIDED
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Habitats and Biotopes
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© Bangor University
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If you reuse this data, you should cite: Ford, H., Garbutt, A., Skov, M. (2016). Coastal Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability (CBESS) percentage cover of plant species on salt marsh sites at Morecambe Bay and Essex. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/90bdf4ff-03d9-4aa4-bcad-5139863ab188
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- Text, table
- Language
- English
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- UTF8
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- Biota
- Begin date
- 2013-01-01
- End date
- 2013-08-31
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- Unique resource identifier
- OSGB 1936 / British National Grid
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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/90bdf4ff-03d9-4aa4-bcad-5139863ab188 Download the data
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Protocol Linkage Name https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/90bdf4ff-03d9-4aa4-bcad-5139863ab188.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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Plant species within each quadrat were identified and their percentage cover estimated. Results were recorded onto field sheets. These data were transferred into an Excel file. Results were exported as comma separated value files for ingestion into the EIDC. The location of the sample sites was determined by randomly allocated quadrats. Each site consisted of a rectangular area of saltmarsh between 400 x 500 m to 1000 x 1000 m in size, dependent upon saltmarsh length (parallel to shore) and width (perpendicular to shore), including part of the low, mid and high marsh zones. Twenty two 1 x 1 m quadrats were randomly allocated to each site rectangle using R (R Development Core Team, 2014) to specify four different spatial scales (A = 1 quadrat only, B = 3 quadrats at 1 m to 10 m apart, C = 6 quadrats at 10 m to 100 m apart, D = 12 quadrats at 100 m to 1000 m or site maximum).
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- 90bdf4ff-03d9-4aa4-bcad-5139863ab188 XML
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- English
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- 8859 Part 1
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dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-03-21T13:19:52
- Metadata standard name
- 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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