ca8f85c5-0595-4fda-80e5-4f41839effed 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 2025-11-13T16:15:51 UK GEMINI 2.3 OSGB 1936 / British National Grid Earthworm and botanical data from the Sweethope mesocosm experimental site, Sourhope, Scotland, 2001 [NERC Soil Biodiversity Programme] 2018-03-19 publication 2001-10-17 creation https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/ca8f85c5-0595-4fda-80e5-4f41839effed 10.5285/ca8f85c5-0595-4fda-80e5-4f41839effed doi: Spring, C.A., Bishop, H.O., Pawlett, M., Robinson, C.H., Grieve, I.C., Chudek, J.A., Hopkins, D.W., Harris, J.A., Davidson, D.A. (2018). Earthworm and botanical data from the Sweethope mesocosm experimental site, Sourhope, Scotland, 2001 [NERC Soil Biodiversity Programme]. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/ca8f85c5-0595-4fda-80e5-4f41839effed This dataset comprises botanical composition and earthworm species and abundance data, sampled from a mesocosm experiment (named Sweethope) in October 2001. The mesocosm site replicated the layout of the main experimental plots at the NERC Soil Biodiversity site at Sourhope, Scotland and was established to avoid contaminating the main Sourhope plots. The NERC Soil Biodiversity Thematic Programme 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: NT 8545 1963). 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/ca8f85c5-0595-4fda-80e5-4f41839effed Spring, C.A. University of Stirling enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Bishop, H.O. University of Stirling enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Pawlett, M. University of East London enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Robinson, C.H. University of London enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Grieve, I.C. University of Stirling enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Chudek, J.A. University of Dundee enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Hopkins, D.W. University of Stirling enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Harris, J.A. Cranfield University enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Davidson, D.A. University of Stirling enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian Sier, A. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk pointOfContact 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 earthworm GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3 2019-01-28 creation Biodiversity Soil Sourhope Scottish borders Vascular plants otherRestrictions no limitations otherRestrictions This resource is made available under the terms of the Open Government Licence otherRestrictions If you reuse this data, you should cite: Spring, C.A., Bishop, H.O., Pawlett, M., Robinson, C.H., Grieve, I.C., Chudek, J.A., Hopkins, D.W., Harris, J.A., Davidson, D.A. (2018). Earthworm and botanical data from the Sweethope mesocosm experimental site, Sourhope, Scotland, 2001 [NERC Soil Biodiversity Programme]. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/ca8f85c5-0595-4fda-80e5-4f41839effed textTable English utf8 biota environment 2001-10-16 2001-10-16 -2.249 -2.214 55.465 55.481 Comma-separated values (CSV) NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/ca8f85c5-0595-4fda-80e5-4f41839effed.zip Supporting information Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset information https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/datastore/eidchub/ca8f85c5-0595-4fda-80e5-4f41839effed Download the data Download a copy of this data fileAccess 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). Soil samples were collected by students and staff at the experimental site before being processed according to standard protocols, with the data then being transferred to the programme data manager at the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology.