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Soil physical, chemical, and biological properties (0-1 m) at five long-term grassland-to-woodland land use contrasts across England, 2018-2019

[THIS DATASET HAS BEEN WITHDRAWN]. This dataset contains soil chemical, physical and biological properties for up to six soil layers between 0 and 100 cm, measured once at each of the five long-term grassland-to-woodland land use contrasts across England between November 2018 and March 2019. Each of the plots was further divided into three grids (grassland grids 1 to 3 / woodland grids 4 to 6) with grids 1 and 6 being the furthest apart. The contrast boundary is between grids 3 and 4. In each plot, nine sampling locations were randomly sampled (three in each grid). The five grassland-to-woodland contrasts were located across England: Gisburn (Gisburn-1, Gisburn-2), Alice Holt, Wytham Woods, and Kielder Forest. Common soil physical and chemical properties were measured; field water content, soil water content, electrical conductivity, bulk density, pH in DIW, pH in CaCl2, Loss-on-ignition, total soil carbon, total soil nitrogen, and total soil phosphorus. Less common properties were also measured; extractable soil nitrogen, dissolved organic carbon, soil aggregate sizes, and soil texture. And for specific soil cores these additional following properties were measured; soil density fractions and their carbon and nitrogen contents, cation exchange capacity, Sodium concentration, potassium concentration, calcium concentration, magnesium concentration, and extracellular enzyme activities. Derived metrics resulting from the bioinformatic processing of the raw sequence files are provided as part this dataset. The properties in this dataset are co-located with ANPP estimates, litter layer depth measurements, soil hydraulic measurements (soil water release curves and hydraulic conductivity), earthworm counts and identification. A file is provided to connect all co-located measurements. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/f127b12d-a54f-4ab8-9697-b8154b81c4bd

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Date (Publication)
2023-10-27
Citation identifier
https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/f127b12d-a54f-4ab8-9697-b8154b81c4bd
Citation identifier
doi: / 10.5285/f127b12d-a54f-4ab8-9697-b8154b81c4bd
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Reinsch, S., Lebron, I., Brentegani, M., Brooks, M., Busi, S.B., Cagnarini, C., Cooper, D., Emmett, B.A., Fitos, E., Griffiths, R., Jones, B., Keenan, P., Keith, A., Lopes-Mazzetto, J.M., Mason, K., Pallett, D., Pereira, G., Pinder, A., Robinson, D.A., Cosby, B.J. (2023). Soil physical, chemical, and biological properties (0-1 m) at five long-term grassland-to-woodland land use contrasts across England, 2018-2019. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/f127b12d-a54f-4ab8-9697-b8154b81c4bd

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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Reinsch, S.

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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Lebron, I.

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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

Brentegani, M.

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Author
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

Brooks, M.

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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Busi, S.B.

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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Cagnarini, C.

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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

Cooper, D.

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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Emmett, B.A.

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Author
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

Fitos, E.

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Author
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Griffiths, R.

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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Jones, B.

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Author
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

Keenan, P.

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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Keith, A.

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Author
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

Lopes-Mazzetto, J.M.

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Author
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Mason, K.

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Author
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

Pallett, D.

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Author
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

Pereira, G.

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Author
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

Pinder, A.

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Author
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Robinson, D.A.

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Author
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Cosby, B.J.

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Author
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

Reinsch, S.

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Point of contact
NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre

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NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre

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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Soil

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If you reuse this data, you should cite: Reinsch, S., Lebron, I., Brentegani, M., Brooks, M., Busi, S.B., Cagnarini, C., Cooper, D., Emmett, B.A., Fitos, E., Griffiths, R., Jones, B., Keenan, P., Keith, A., Lopes-Mazzetto, J.M., Mason, K., Pallett, D., Pereira, G., Pinder, A., Robinson, D.A., Cosby, B.J. (2023). Soil physical, chemical, and biological properties (0-1 m) at five long-term grassland-to-woodland land use contrasts across England, 2018-2019. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/f127b12d-a54f-4ab8-9697-b8154b81c4bd

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  • Environment
  • Biota
Begin date
2018-11-01
End date
2019-03-31
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WGS 84
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OSGB 1936 / British National Grid
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NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre

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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

Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Statement

In each plot, nine sampling locations were randomly sampled (three in each grid). At each sampling location 18, 100 cm soil cores were taken. For all the soil cores, the following common soil physical and chemical properties were measured in up to six depth increments: field water content, soil water content, electrical conductivity, bulk density, pH in DIW, pH in CaCl2, Loss-on-ignition, total soil carbon, total soil nitrogen, total soil phosphorus. Also, the following less common chemical, physical and biological properties were measured in one topsoil and one subsoil increment; extractable soil nitrogen, dissolved organic carbon, soil aggregate sizes, soil texture. For the soil cores from grids 2 and 5 the following additional soil properties were measured: soil density fractions and their carbon and nitrogen contents, cation exchange capacity, sodium concentration, potassium concentration, calcium concentration, magnesium concentration, extracellular enzyme activities. The raw sequence files from the microbial analyses of bacterial and fungal marker genes (16S rRNA gene, and ITS regions respectively) and shotgun whole genome sequencing have been deposited in the European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) under project accession PRJEB66294 ( https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/browser/view/PRJEB66294). All the physical, chemical, and biological properties were measured using standard techniques, see the supporting documentation for more details.

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f127b12d-a54f-4ab8-9697-b8154b81c4bd XML
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English
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dataset

Date stamp
2025-03-21T10:51:47
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
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2.3

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NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre

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Soil


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