d329ca18-c3d8-49f0-b2fd-5243d76dc650 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 2025-11-13T16:19:10 UK GEMINI 2.3 OSGB 1936 / British National Grid Water chemistry of Welsh upland rivers (2012-2013) 2017-04-20 publication https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/d329ca18-c3d8-49f0-b2fd-5243d76dc650 10.5285/d329ca18-c3d8-49f0-b2fd-5243d76dc650 doi: Durance, I., Feeley, H.B., Gutierrez-Canovas, C. (2017). Water chemistry of Welsh upland rivers (2012-2013). NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/d329ca18-c3d8-49f0-b2fd-5243d76dc650 These data consist of stream water chemistry for selected Welsh upland rivers. The sampling sites were located in sixty one small and medium catchments. Catchments were chosen from the Welsh Acid Water Surveys (WAWS) program (41 sites) and the Wye catchment (20 sites). Results for pH, alkalinity, conductivity and major cation and anion measurements are presented for the WAWS catchments. Results for pH, alkalinity, conductivity and major anion measurements are presented for the Wye catchment. Samples from the Wye catchment were collected in May 2012. Samples from the WAWS catchments were taken during the summer and autumn of 2012 and spring and summer of 2013. The data were collected to characterise water chemistry variation along a gradient of aquatic biodiversity associated with different environmental settings for example land-use intensify and recovery from acidification. Dr Isabelle Durance was responsible for organising the surveys, Dr Hugh Feeley was in charge of collecting and preserving the water samples. Analysis of the water samples was carried out at the Forest Research Laboratories. The work was carried out under Diversity in Upland Rivers for Ecosystem Service Sustainability (DURESS) project (Grant reference NERC NE/J014818/1). DURESS was a project funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability (BESS) programme. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/d329ca18-c3d8-49f0-b2fd-5243d76dc650 Durance, I. Cardiff University durance@cardiff.ac.uk pointOfContact Durance, I. Cardiff University durance@cardiff.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4138-3349 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Feeley, H.B. Cardiff University hughfeeley@gmail.com https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0386-0586 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Gutierrez-Canovas, C. Cardiff University cayeguti@um.es https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6785-4049 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian NERC Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher Cardiff University EMAIL NOT PROVIDED owner notPlanned Environmental Monitoring Facilities theme GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication aquatic organism invertebrate land use acidity benthic ecosystem GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3 2019-01-28 creation Wales GeoNames 2006-01-01 creation DURESS otherRestrictions no limitations otherRestrictions This resource is made available under the terms of the Open Government Licence otherRestrictions © Cardiff University otherRestrictions If you reuse this data, you should cite: Durance, I., Feeley, H.B., Gutierrez-Canovas, C. (2017). Water chemistry of Welsh upland rivers (2012-2013). NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/d329ca18-c3d8-49f0-b2fd-5243d76dc650 textTable 1 English utf8 environment 2012-05-01 2013-09-30 -5.473 -2.654 51.375 53.434 Comma-separated values (CSV) NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/d329ca18-c3d8-49f0-b2fd-5243d76dc650 Download the data Download a copy of this data download https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/d329ca18-c3d8-49f0-b2fd-5243d76dc650.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 Filtered and unfiltered water samples were collected in situ using standardised procedures. Samples were then sent to the Forest Research Laboratory to be analysed for pH, alkalinity, conductivity, major anions and cations. Results were entered into an Excel spreadsheet. Data were exported as comma separated files for ingestion into the Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC)