d3c98f24-7a4d-40b8-989a-6cc340e91cac 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 2025-11-13T16:26:59 UK GEMINI 2.3 WGS 84 / Pseudo-Mercator Soil fauna abundance under birch and willow vegetation in girdled and non-girdled plots, subarctic Sweden, 2019 2022-06-08 publication https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/d3c98f24-7a4d-40b8-989a-6cc340e91cac 10.5285/d3c98f24-7a4d-40b8-989a-6cc340e91cac doi: Parker, T.C., Chomel, M., Clemmensen, K.E., Friggens, N.L., Hartley, I.P., Johnson, D., Krab, E.J., Lindahl, B.D., Street, L.E., Subke, J.A., Wookey, P.A. (2022). Soil fauna abundance under birch and willow vegetation in girdled and non-girdled plots, subarctic Sweden, 2019. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/d3c98f24-7a4d-40b8-989a-6cc340e91cac Data comprise numbers of soil microarthorpods (mesofauna) extracted over 10 days from soils in northern, subarctic Sweden sampled on 29th July 2019. Soils were sampled from treeline mountain birch forest and stands of tundra willow that were wither 'girdled' (connection between leaves and roots cut by disrupting the phloem transport) or ‘control’ (no treatment), two years prior. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/d3c98f24-7a4d-40b8-989a-6cc340e91cac Parker, T.C. The James Hutton Institute Thomas.parker@hutton.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3648-5316 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 Chomel, M. The University of Manchester mathilde.chomel@manchester.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5110-2355 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 Clemmensen, K.E. Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences karina.clemmensen@slu.se https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9627-6428 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 Friggens, N.L. University of Exeter N.Lindstrom-Friggens@exeter.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5536-6312 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 Hartley, I.P. University of Exeter I.Hartley@exeter.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9183-6617 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 Johnson, D. The University of Manchester David.johnson-2@manchester.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2299-2525 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 Krab, E.J. Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences eveline.krab@slu.se https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8262-0198 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 Lindahl, B.D. Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences Bjorn.Lindahl@slu.se https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3384-4547 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 Street, L.E. University of Edinburgh Lorna.Street@ed.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9570-7479 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 Subke, J.A. University of Stirling jens-arne.subke@stir.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9244-639X 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 Wookey, P.A. University of Stirling philip.wookey1@stir.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5957-6424 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 Parker, T. The James Hutton Institute thomas.parker@hutton.ac.uk pointOfContact NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian The James Hutton Institute Thomas.parker@hutton.ac.uk owner Soil Environmental Monitoring Facilities theme GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication mite tundra soil biology GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3 2019-01-28 creation Soil Subarctic Collembola Girdling Foodwebs otherRestrictions Registration is required to access this data otherRestrictions This resource is available under the terms of the Open Government Licence otherRestrictions If you reuse this data, you should cite: Parker, T.C., Chomel, M., Clemmensen, K.E., Friggens, N.L., Hartley, I.P., Johnson, D., Krab, E.J., Lindahl, B.D., Street, L.E., Subke, J.A., Wookey, P.A. (2022). Soil fauna abundance under birch and willow vegetation in girdled and non-girdled plots, subarctic Sweden, 2019. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/d3c98f24-7a4d-40b8-989a-6cc340e91cac textTable 3 English utf8 environment 2019-07-29 2019-07-29 8.789 24.961 54.162 69.9 Comma-separated values (CSV) NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/d3c98f24-7a4d-40b8-989a-6cc340e91cac.zip Supporting information Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset information https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/d3c98f24-7a4d-40b8-989a-6cc340e91cac 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 Soils were sampled across all plots for microarthropods (Collembola and mites) on July 29th 2019. Within each plot, three 4.5 cm diameter soil cores were taken to the depth of the soil horizon (until rock or last clasts) within the central 3 x 3 m area of the birch plots, and across the willow plots. The mineral horizon of each soil core was removed and discarded, while the litter horizon was retained and pooled separately for each plot. Cores were inserted into tight fitting plastic rings to maintain soil structure for optimal extraction efficiency. The soil and litter samples were extracted for soil fauna using a Tullgren Funnel fauna extractor. 22 pooled soil and 22 pooled litter samples were placed at random under individual heat lamps (in order to avoid spatial biases in extraction efficiency) and left for 10 days to extract fauna into ethanol. At the end of the extraction the soil and litter samples were oven dried for 24 hours at 70 °C and weighed to determine soil dry weights. The fauna samples were preserved in 70 % ethanol prior to identification and quantification. Extracted fauna were counted and identified under a dissecting microscope to species level for Collembola using the key of Hopkin (2007) and to order level for Acari (Oribatid, Mesostigmatid, Prostigmatid). Other invertebrates were separated at higher taxonomic levels (e.g. Diptera, Coleoptera, Araneae etc.).