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Baseline soil pH data from Sourhope field experiment site, Scotland, 1999-2002 [NERC Soil Biodiversity Programme]
This data set details soil pH values and soil moisture values from experimental plots at a field site at Sourhope, Scotland, between 1998 and 2002. Data were collected as part of the NERC Soil Biodiversity Thematic Programme, which was established in 1999 and was centred upon the intensive study of a large field experiment located at the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute (now the James Hutton Institute) farm at Sourhope in the Scottish Borders (Grid reference: NT8545019630). During the experiment, the site was monitored to assess changes in above-ground biomass production (productivity), species composition and relative abundance (diversity). Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/a35d0ded-b422-4af3-8f74-e70249fc9788
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- Date (Publication)
- 2017-11-17
- Date (Creation)
- 2002-03-23
- Citation identifier
- https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/a35d0ded-b422-4af3-8f74-e70249fc9788
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- doi: / 10.5285/a35d0ded-b422-4af3-8f74-e70249fc9788
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Buckland, S., Burt-Smith, G. (2017). Baseline soil pH data from Sourhope field experiment site, Scotland, 1999-2002 [NERC Soil Biodiversity Programme]. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/a35d0ded-b422-4af3-8f74-e70249fc9788
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC Environmental Information Data Centre Publisher Macaulay Land Use Research Institute
Buckland, S.
Author Macaulay Land Use Research Institute
Burt-Smith, G.
Author UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Sier, A.
Point of contact NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Custodian The James Hutton Institute Owner
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Environmental Monitoring Facilities
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GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3
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- Soil
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Sourhope field experiment site
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soil pH
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© 2017 The James Hutton Institute
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If you reuse this data, you should cite: Buckland, S., Burt-Smith, G. (2017). Baseline soil pH data from Sourhope field experiment site, Scotland, 1999-2002 [NERC Soil Biodiversity Programme]. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/a35d0ded-b422-4af3-8f74-e70249fc9788
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- Text, table
- Language
- English
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- UTF8
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- Environment
- Begin date
- 1998-08-01
- End date
- 2002-03-23
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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/sd/a35d0ded-b422-4af3-8f74-e70249fc9788.zip Supporting information
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Protocol Linkage Name https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/a35d0ded-b422-4af3-8f74-e70249fc9788 Download the data
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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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On separate sampling occasions (Mar. and Sep. 1999, Mar. 2000, Mar. and Oct. 2001, Mar. 2002) soil cores were taken from the centre area of each of the experimental plot for baseline measurements. pH values were determined for each sample, block and main-plot. Soil moisture content values were also calculated for the Sep. 1999 samples. pH was sampled before the experiment began in 1998. In addition, two sets of samples were taken in Apr. 2000 and July 2003 from each of the general sampling sub-plots (S T U V) from within all the experimental plot types except the control 2 plots, and used to assess the variation in pH across the site. Data were collected by staff employed by the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute (MLURI) at the Sourhope experimental site before being transferred to the programme data manager at the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology.
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- a35d0ded-b422-4af3-8f74-e70249fc9788 XML
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- English
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- 8859 Part 1
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- Dataset
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dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-11-13T16:19:11
- 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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