c730867f-ffd7-4d2d-9dd0-e2f30a7dbbf6 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 2025-11-13T16:18:39 UK GEMINI 2.3 OSGB 1936 / British National Grid Botanical data from Sourhope field experiment site, Scotland, 1999-2002 [NERC Soil Biodiversity Programme] 2017-11-30 publication 2002-12-31 creation https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/c730867f-ffd7-4d2d-9dd0-e2f30a7dbbf6 10.5285/c730867f-ffd7-4d2d-9dd0-e2f30a7dbbf6 doi: Buckland, S., Burt-Smith, G., Walker, W. (2017). Botanical data from Sourhope field experiment site, Scotland, 1999-2002 [NERC Soil Biodiversity Programme]. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/c730867f-ffd7-4d2d-9dd0-e2f30a7dbbf6 The data set comprises vegetation species and abundance information, surveyed using a 50 x 50 cm point quadrat, from a selection of the plots within an experimental site at Sourhope, Scotland. The surveys were carried out in the summers of 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2002. The data were collected as part of the NERC Soil Biodiversity Thematic Programme, established in 1999 and 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/c730867f-ffd7-4d2d-9dd0-e2f30a7dbbf6 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 Walker, W. 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 NERC Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher notPlanned Environmental Monitoring Facilities theme GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication vegetation GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3 2019-01-28 creation Biodiversity Land use NERC Soil Biodiversity Programme otherRestrictions no limitations otherRestrictions This resource is made available under the terms of the Open Government Licence otherRestrictions © 2017 The James Hutton Institute otherRestrictions © UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology otherRestrictions If you reuse this data, you should cite: Buckland, S., Burt-Smith, G., Walker, W. (2017). Botanical data from Sourhope field experiment site, Scotland, 1999-2002 [NERC Soil Biodiversity Programme]. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/c730867f-ffd7-4d2d-9dd0-e2f30a7dbbf6 textTable English utf8 biota 1998-07-27 2002-10-31 -2.237 -2.221 55.468 55.476 Comma-separated values (CSV) NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/c730867f-ffd7-4d2d-9dd0-e2f30a7dbbf6 Download the data Download a copy of this data download https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/c730867f-ffd7-4d2d-9dd0-e2f30a7dbbf6.zip Supporting information Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset information 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 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 (MLURI) (now the James Hutton Institute) farm at Sourhope in the Scottish Borders (Grid reference: NT 8545 1963). Data were collected by staff employed by MLURI and were managed by the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology.