a35d0ded-b422-4af3-8f74-e70249fc9788 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 2025-11-13T16:19:11 UK GEMINI 2.3 OSGB 1936 / British National Grid Baseline soil pH data from Sourhope field experiment site, Scotland, 1999-2002 [NERC Soil Biodiversity Programme] 2017-11-17 publication 2002-03-23 creation https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/a35d0ded-b422-4af3-8f74-e70249fc9788 10.5285/a35d0ded-b422-4af3-8f74-e70249fc9788 doi: 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 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 NERC Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher Buckland, S. Macaulay Land Use Research Institute info@hutton.ac.uk author Burt-Smith, G. Macaulay Land Use Research Institute info@hutton.ac.uk author Sier, A. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk pointOfContact NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian The James Hutton Institute info@hutton.ac.uk owner notPlanned Environmental Monitoring Facilities theme GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication soil moisture soil GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3 2019-01-28 creation Soil Sourhope field experiment site soil pH otherRestrictions no limitations otherRestrictions This resource is made available under the terms of the Open Government Licence otherRestrictions © 2017 The James Hutton Institute otherRestrictions 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 textTable English utf8 environment 1998-08-01 2002-03-23 -2.241 -2.219 55.468 55.48 Comma-separated values (CSV) NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/a35d0ded-b422-4af3-8f74-e70249fc9788.zip Supporting information Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset information https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/a35d0ded-b422-4af3-8f74-e70249fc9788 Download the data Download a copy of this data download 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 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.