da5d7028-2aec-4da2-96ff-f347a0dfa77e 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 WGS 84 Invertebrate herbivory data across a natural soil temperature gradient in Iceland from May-July 2017 2021-06-22 publication https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/da5d7028-2aec-4da2-96ff-f347a0dfa77e 10.5285/da5d7028-2aec-4da2-96ff-f347a0dfa77e doi: O'Gorman, E.J., Warner, E., Marteinsdóttir, B., Helmutsdóttir, V.F., Ehrlén, J., Robinson, S.I. (2021). Invertebrate herbivory data across a natural soil temperature gradient in Iceland from May-July 2017. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/da5d7028-2aec-4da2-96ff-f347a0dfa77e This is a dataset of environmental data, vegetation cover, and community- and species-level invertebrate herbivory, sampled at 14 experimental soil plots in the Hengill geothermal valley, Iceland, from May to July 2017. The plots span a temperature gradient of 5-35 °C on average over the sampling period, yet they occur within 1 km of each other and have similar soil moisture, pH, nitrate, ammonium, and phosphate. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/da5d7028-2aec-4da2-96ff-f347a0dfa77e O'Gorman, E.J. University of Essex e.ogorman@essex.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4507-5690 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 Warner, E. University of Oxford emily.warner@plants.ox.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2236-9725 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 Marteinsdóttir, B. Soil Conservation Service of Iceland bryndis.marteinsdottir@landgraedslan.is https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3779-7327 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 Helmutsdóttir, V.F. University of Iceland vigdisfh@gmail.com author Ehrlén, J. Stockholm University Johan.Ehrlen@su.se https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8539-8967 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 Robinson, S.I. University of Helsinki sinikka.robinson@helsinki.fi https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8831-0497 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 O'Gorman, E.J. University of Essex e.ogorman@essex.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4507-5690 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 pointOfContact NERC Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian University of Essex e.ogorman@essex.ac.uk owner Atmospheric Conditions theme GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication climate change global warming GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3 2019-01-28 creation natural experiment trophic otherRestrictions no limitations otherRestrictions This resource is available under the terms of the Open Government Licence otherRestrictions If you reuse this data, you should cite: O'Gorman, E.J., Warner, E., Marteinsdóttir, B., Helmutsdóttir, V.F., Ehrlén, J., Robinson, S.I. (2021). Invertebrate herbivory data across a natural soil temperature gradient in Iceland from May-July 2017. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/da5d7028-2aec-4da2-96ff-f347a0dfa77e textTable 1000 English utf8 climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere 2017-05-01 2017-07-31 -21.279 -21.321 64.044 64.061 Comma-separated values (CSV) NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/da5d7028-2aec-4da2-96ff-f347a0dfa77e Download the data Download a copy of this data download https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/da5d7028-2aec-4da2-96ff-f347a0dfa77e.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 Herbivory assessments were made at the plant community and species levels. We focused on three plant species with a widespread occurrence across the temperature gradient: cuckooflower (Cardamine pratensis, Linnaeus), common mouse-ear (Cerastium fontanum, Baumgerten), and marsh violet (Viola palustris, Linnaeus). For assessments of invertebrate herbivory at the species level, thirty individuals per species of C. pratensis, C. fontanum, and V. palustris were marked in each of ten plots, using a stratified random sampling method where individuals were randomly selected, but the full range of within-plot soil temperatures was represented. For assessments of invertebrate herbivory at the community level, five 50 × 50 cm quadrats were marked at random points in eight of the plots that best captured the full temperature gradient. The community-level herbivory assessment was conducted on 19th June. The number of damaged plants was recorded out of 100 random individuals, selected using a 10 × 10 grid within each 50 × 50 cm quadrat. For the species-level herbivory assessment, individual marked plants were surveyed for signs of invertebrate herbivory every two weeks from 30th May to 2nd July, generating three time-points per species. At each survey, all marked individuals for each species were assessed within a 48-hour period. Plants were recorded as damaged or not damaged by invertebrate herbivores at each time-point. Further details of how phenological stage of development, vegetation community composition, soil temperature, moisture, pH, nitrate, ammonium, and phosphate were recorded are provided in the supporting documentation.