e3c79781-09af-4c4f-b6ad-b0bc323e203f 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 2025-11-13T16:26:12 UK GEMINI 2.3 OSGB 1936 / British National Grid Plant biomass, soil conditions and stable isotope concentrations in soil, roots and shoots from a microcosm experiment [NERC Soil Biodiversity Programme] 2018-10-10 publication https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/e3c79781-09af-4c4f-b6ad-b0bc323e203f 10.5285/e3c79781-09af-4c4f-b6ad-b0bc323e203f doi: Cole, L., Staddon, P.L., Sleep, D., Bardgett, R.D. (2018). Plant biomass, soil conditions and stable isotope concentrations in soil, roots and shoots from a microcosm experiment [NERC Soil Biodiversity Programme]. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/e3c79781-09af-4c4f-b6ad-b0bc323e203f Data collected include: plant (shoot and root) biomass, a range of soil conditions including mycorrhizal abundance, microbial biomass carbon & nitrogen, soil extractable ammonia, soil extractable nitrate, soil extractable phosphate, total nitrogen content of soil and the presence of selected mite and collembolan species, and measurements associated with stable isotopes (ratio of isotopes of nitrogen in soil, roots and shoots, total carbon content of roots and shoots, ratio of isotopes of carbon in roots, total nitrogen content of fumigated and non-fumigated acid traps, ratio of isotopes of nitrogen in fumigated and non-fumigated acid traps). These data were collected from a laboratory-based study that examined a range of soil properties to investigate the relationship between microarthropods and soil microbial properties and the short-term partitioning of a dual-labelled organic nitrogen source (glycine-2-13C-15N) between a grassland plant, Agrostis capillaris, and the soil microbial biomass, to determine how soil fauna and their diversity influence plant-microbial competition for organic N. The experiment was carried out at Lancaster University using soil from the NERC Soil Biodiversity site in Scotland. The work was part of the NERC Soil Biodiversity Thematic Programme, which was established in 1999 and was centred upon the intensive study of a large field experiment located at the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute (now the James Hutton Institute) farm at Sourhope in the Scottish Borders. During the programme, the site was monitored to assess changes in above-ground biomass production (productivity), species composition and relative abundance (diversity). Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/e3c79781-09af-4c4f-b6ad-b0bc323e203f Cole, L. Lancaster University enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Staddon, P.L. Riso National Laboratory, Denmark enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Sleep, D. Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Bardgett, R.D. Lancaster University enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian NERC Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher Sier, A. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk pointOfContact notPlanned Environmental Monitoring Facilities theme GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication root GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3 2019-01-28 creation Soil soil fauna microarthropods stable isotope concentrations shoots otherRestrictions no limitations otherRestrictions This resource is made available under the terms of the Open Government Licence otherRestrictions © Lancaster University otherRestrictions © Riso National Laboratory, Roskilde, Denmark otherRestrictions © UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology otherRestrictions If you reuse this data, you should cite: Cole, L., Staddon, P.L., Sleep, D., Bardgett, R.D. (2018). Plant biomass, soil conditions and stable isotope concentrations in soil, roots and shoots from a microcosm experiment [NERC Soil Biodiversity Programme]. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/e3c79781-09af-4c4f-b6ad-b0bc323e203f textTable English utf8 environment 2002-03-04 2002-04-30 -2.242 -2.212 55.469 55.482 Comma-separated values (CSV) NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/e3c79781-09af-4c4f-b6ad-b0bc323e203f.zip Supporting information Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset information https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/datastore/eidchub/e3c79781-09af-4c4f-b6ad-b0bc323e203f/P2133_MICROCOSM_N_PULSE.csv Download the data Download a copy of this data fileAccess 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 Data were collected as part of the NERC Soil Biodiversity Thematic Programme, which was established in 1999 and was centred upon the intensive study of a large field experiment located at the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute (MLURI) (now the James Hutton Institute) farm at Sourhope in the Scottish Borders (Grid reference: NT 8545 1963). These data were collected from an experimental microcosm facility using soil from the Sourhope site. Data were collected by students and staff from Lancaster University and the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, following defined protocols. Data from the programme were managed by the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology.