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Biodiversity responses to vegetation height and diversity in perennial meadow plantings in two urban areas in the UK
The data describe the ecological responses (invertebrate diversity and biomass, plant diversity, soil characteristics and microbial diversity) to experimental manipulation of floristic diversity and vegetation height in planted urban meadows. The experiment consisted of a replicated set of nine different perennial meadow treatments, sown in six public urban greenspaces in the towns of Bedford and Luton, in the UK. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/d0741544-cdf3-497d-996b-e30b4b7373c1
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- Date (Publication)
- 2019-06-25
- Citation identifier
- https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/d0741544-cdf3-497d-996b-e30b4b7373c1
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- doi: / 10.5285/d0741544-cdf3-497d-996b-e30b4b7373c1
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Norton, B.A., Bending, G.D., Clark, R., Corstanje, R., Dunnett, N., Evans, K.L., Grafius, D.R., Gravestock, E., Grice, S.M., Harris, J.A., Hilton, S., Hoyle, H., Lim, E., Mercer, T.G., Pawlett, M., Pescott, O.L., Richards, J.P., Southon, G.E., Warren, P.H. (2019). Biodiversity responses to vegetation height and diversity in perennial meadow plantings in two urban areas in the UK. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/d0741544-cdf3-497d-996b-e30b4b7373c1
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Species Distribution
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GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3
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- Biodiversity
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Bedford
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Luton
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amenity grassland
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invertebrate diversity
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plant diversity
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vegetation structure
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microbial diversity
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© University of Sheffield
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© Cranfield University
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© University of Warwick
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If you reuse this data, you should cite: Norton, B.A., Bending, G.D., Clark, R., Corstanje, R., Dunnett, N., Evans, K.L., Grafius, D.R., Gravestock, E., Grice, S.M., Harris, J.A., Hilton, S., Hoyle, H., Lim, E., Mercer, T.G., Pawlett, M., Pescott, O.L., Richards, J.P., Southon, G.E., Warren, P.H. (2019). Biodiversity responses to vegetation height and diversity in perennial meadow plantings in two urban areas in the UK. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/d0741544-cdf3-497d-996b-e30b4b7373c1
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- Text, table
- Distance
- 1 urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
- Language
- English
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- UTF8
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- Biota
- Environment
- Geoscientific information
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- Begin date
- 2013-03-01
- End date
- 2016-03-01
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- WGS 84
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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/data/d0741544-cdf3-497d-996b-e30b4b7373c1 Download the data
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Protocol Linkage Name https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/d0741544-cdf3-497d-996b-e30b4b7373c1.zip Supporting information
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dataset
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- Title
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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
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
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Experimental plots (of 250 square metres at all except one site) were established, by herbicide application, rotovation and sowing in existing amenity grassland, in 2013. Data were collected in the second season after establishment. Plant diversity was assessed by quadrat sampling within experimental plots, and by visual surveys. Plant identification is primarily to species level. Invertebrate diversity was assessed from collections made by vacuum sampling, sweep netting and visual surveys (summer) and for some plots by hand searching (winter). Sampled material was preserved and subsequently sorted and identified in the laboratory. Invertebrate identification is primarily to order level, with the exception of the Coleoptera, which are to family level. Soil condition and microbial diversity was assessed from multiple soil cores from each experimental plot (for a subset of sites), with subsequent laboratory analysis of C, N, pH, and microbial DNA and PLFA. Samples were processed in Sheffield (invertebrates), Cranfield (soil characteristics, PLFA), and Warwick (DNA). Quality assurance was managed by the senior researcher carrying out the processing in each laboratory, overseen by the principal and co-investigators of the project.
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- d0741544-cdf3-497d-996b-e30b4b7373c1 XML
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- English
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- 8859 Part 1
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dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-11-13T16:17:28
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- 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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