98b473c7-3ca9-498d-a851-31152b1f1da7 English ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1) nonGeographicDataset nonGeographicDataset 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 Empirical and modelled carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus content of plants and soils from Wardlow Hay Cop, UK 2021-06-21 publication 2019-06-25 creation https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/98b473c7-3ca9-498d-a851-31152b1f1da7 10.5285/98b473c7-3ca9-498d-a851-31152b1f1da7 doi: Taylor, C.R., Janes-Bassett, V., Phoenix, G.K., Keane, B., Hartley, I.P., Davies, J.A.C. (2021). Empirical and modelled carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus content of plants and soils from Wardlow Hay Cop, UK. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/98b473c7-3ca9-498d-a851-31152b1f1da7 Empirical and modelled data from a model investigation into the consequences of nitrogen (N) deposition and nutrient manipulation on carbon (C) and nutrient cycling in phosphorus (P)-limited grasslands. Empirical data show above-ground biomass C, soil organic C and total soil N from two grassland types at Wardlow Hay Cop in the Peak District national park, UK. Wardlow is a long-term nutrient manipulation experiment (> 25 years) investigating the consequences of N deposition on grassland ecosystems. These data were collected during the summer of 2019 and were combined with total soil P data collected previously to form a dataset for inclusion in a CNP biogeochemical cycling model; N14CP. We use these empirical data to drive and calibrate the N14CP model in order to develop our understanding of the C, N and P dynamics of the two grasslands. Specifically, we investigate how potential differences in organic P cycling between the two grassland types may explain their contrasting responses to long-term N deposition and further experimental treatments. Accordingly, the bulk of this dataset is modelled data derived from the empirical data, and relates to the responses of plant C, soil C, N and P to N deposition and nutrient manipulation. This includes data on the CNP budgets of the modelled grasslands, P-cycling parameters used within the model, comparisons of empirical to modelled data, and changes in CNP pools resulting from N deposition and nutrient manipulation. Full details about this nonGeographicDataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/98b473c7-3ca9-498d-a851-31152b1f1da7 Taylor, C.R. Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield Ctaylor8@sheffield.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4399-7472 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 Janes-Bassett, V. Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University v.janes@lancaster.ac.uk author Phoenix, G.K. Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield g.phoenix@sheffield.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0911-8107 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 Keane, B. Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield ben.keane@sheffield.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7614-8018 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 Hartley, I.P. Geography, College of Life and Environmental Science, University of Exeter I.Hartley@exeter.ac.uk author Davies, J.A.C. Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University jess.davies@lancaster.ac.uk author Taylor, C.R. Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield Ctaylor8@sheffield.ac.uk pointOfContact NERC Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher University of Sheffield copyright@sheffield.ac.uk owner NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian Soil theme GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication carbon phosphorus nitrogen soil pollutant deposition nitrogen cycle carbon cycle nutrient cycle GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3 2019-01-28 creation Nitrogen deposition Phosphorus limitation Biogeochemical modelling Grasslands 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: Taylor, C.R., Janes-Bassett, V., Phoenix, G.K., Keane, B., Hartley, I.P., Davies, J.A.C. (2021). Empirical and modelled carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus content of plants and soils from Wardlow Hay Cop, UK. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/98b473c7-3ca9-498d-a851-31152b1f1da7 English utf8 environment 2019-06-25 2019-06-25 Comma-separated values (CSV) NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/98b473c7-3ca9-498d-a851-31152b1f1da7 Download the data Download a copy of this data download https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/98b473c7-3ca9-498d-a851-31152b1f1da7.zip Supporting information Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset information nonGeographicDataset nonGeographicDataset 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 Empirical data: Above ground biomass carbon was determined from the dry weight of a sward harvest for each nutrient treatment and in both grasslands. Soil organic C and total soil N was determined by acid stripping dried soil to remove carbonates and then analysing it in an isotope-ratio mass spectrometer. Total soil P was taken from previous research at Wardlow. These data were converted into model-compatible units (grams per metre squared) prior to their use in the modelling study. Plant C and soil C and N was collected from all four nutrient treatments; a distilled water control, a low nitrogen (3.5 g N m-2 yr-1) a high nitrogen (14 g N m-2 yr-1) and a phosphorus addition (3.5 g P m-2 yr-1). Total soil P data was only available for the control and high nitrogen treatments. Modelled data: These data were used to calibrate two P-cycling parameters within the N14CP model in order to simulate the nutrient manipulation experiment within the model. After assessing the model’s performance using the empirical data, we investigated the consequences of long-term N deposition and nutrient manipulation on the C, N and P pools of soil and the above ground biomass C pool. All modelled data is in grams per metre squared unless stated otherwise in the metadata. Some modelled data, notably the timeseries, spans the years 1800 – 2020 in order to model changes on longer timescales. Note that the empirical data relates only to the year 2019 in which it was collected, which represents 24 years of experimental nutrient addition.