e00770f3-4acf-4fd5-ba29-0a4dbdca09a4 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 2025-11-13T16:19:54 UK GEMINI 2.3 WGS 84 Invertebrate community assembly data across a natural soil temperature gradient in Iceland from May-July 2015 2021-02-08 publication 2021-01-20 creation https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/e00770f3-4acf-4fd5-ba29-0a4dbdca09a4 10.5285/e00770f3-4acf-4fd5-ba29-0a4dbdca09a4 doi: O'Gorman, E.J., Robinson, S.I. (2021). Invertebrate community assembly data across a natural soil temperature gradient in Iceland from May-July 2015. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/e00770f3-4acf-4fd5-ba29-0a4dbdca09a4 This is a dataset of environmental variables, total invertebrate abundance, and mean invertebrate body mass, sampled at 60 soil habitat patches in the Hengill geothermal valley, Iceland, from May to July 2015. The habitat patches span a temperature gradient of 5 to 22 deg C on average over the sampling period, yet they occur within 2 km of each other and have similar soil moisture, pH, total carbon, and total nitrogen. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/e00770f3-4acf-4fd5-ba29-0a4dbdca09a4 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 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 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 NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian NERC Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher University of Essex enquiries@essex.ac.uk owner Environmental Monitoring Facilities theme GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication soil climate change biodiversity global warming seasonal variation GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3 2019-01-28 creation Climate and climate change Hengill natural experiment temporal variability seasonal dynamics 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., Robinson, S.I. (2021). Invertebrate community assembly data across a natural soil temperature gradient in Iceland from May-July 2015. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/e00770f3-4acf-4fd5-ba29-0a4dbdca09a4 textTable 10000 English utf8 biota environment 2015-05-01 2015-07-31 -25.604 -11.893 62.693 66.911 Comma-separated values (CSV) NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/e00770f3-4acf-4fd5-ba29-0a4dbdca09a4 Download the data Download a copy of this data download https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/e00770f3-4acf-4fd5-ba29-0a4dbdca09a4.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 Epigeal invertebrate communities were sampled at three soil habitat patches on each bank of 10 geothermally heated streams in the Hengill valley, Iceland, using five pitfall traps left for 48 hours in each plot, at four time-points during the study: 19th May, 4th June, 23rd June, and 5th of July. White plastic cups of 7 cm diameter and 8.5 cm depth were filled with 10 ml of ethylene glycol and 30 ml of stream water, and left for 48 hours before collection. During collection, samples from the five traps at each habitat patch were combined into a 250-μm sieve and stored in 70% ethanol. Terrestrial invertebrates were identified to species level where possible but often to higher taxonomic groups where species-level identification was infeasible (e.g. Diptera and Hymenoptera were mostly identified to family level), using a Nikon SMZ1500 microscope at 8-100× magnification. The total number of individuals for each species found in the pitfall traps at a habitat patch was considered as the abundance of that species, while the mean dry weight of each species in milligrams was estimated from length measurements taken for each individual and published length-weight relationships.