fe2ba292-08b0-428c-8e27-8c851a4a8bbc 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 2025-11-13T16:15:05 UK GEMINI 2.3 OSGB 1936 / British National Grid Measurements of microarthropod community structure and diversity from an upland grassland experimental site [NERC Soil Biodiversity Programme] 2018-10-15 publication 2000-12-01 creation https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/fe2ba292-08b0-428c-8e27-8c851a4a8bbc 10.5285/fe2ba292-08b0-428c-8e27-8c851a4a8bbc doi: Cole, L., Bardgett, R.D., Buckland, S.M. (2018). Measurements of microarthropod community structure and diversity from an upland grassland experimental site [NERC Soil Biodiversity Programme]. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/fe2ba292-08b0-428c-8e27-8c851a4a8bbc Data comprises patterns of diversity in a below-ground community of microarthropods (mites and collembola), measured during a nutrient (calcium and nitrogen) manipulation experiment, located at the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Soil Biodiversity Site in Sourhope, Scotland, UK. Data collected include abundance of microarthropods, and also microbial biomass carbon, soil respiration, wet pH using de-ionised water, soil loss on ignition, dry root biomass, total carbon and nitrogen content of soil and roots and soil moisture content. The data were collected as a component of the NERC Soil Biodiversity Programme, established in 1999 and centred upon the intensive study of a large field experiment located at the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute (now the James Hutton Institute)'s farm at Sourhope in the Scottish Borders. During this time, the site was monitored to assess changes in aboveground biomass production (productivity), species composition and relative abundance (diversity). Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/fe2ba292-08b0-428c-8e27-8c851a4a8bbc Cole, L. Lancaster University enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Bardgett, R.D. Lancaster University enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Buckland, S.M. The Macaulay Research Institute enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author NERC Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher Sier, A. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk pointOfContact NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian notPlanned Environmental Monitoring Facilities theme GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication mite nitrogen carbon soil moisture soil GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3 2019-01-28 creation Biodiversity Soil Scottish borders Sourhope microbial biomass carbon soil respiration soil pH soil moisture Collembola Microarthropod otherRestrictions no limitations otherRestrictions This resource is made available under the terms of the Open Government Licence otherRestrictions © Lancaster University otherRestrictions © The James Hutton Institute otherRestrictions If you reuse this data, you should cite: Cole, L., Bardgett, R.D., Buckland, S.M. (2018). Measurements of microarthropod community structure and diversity from an upland grassland experimental site [NERC Soil Biodiversity Programme]. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/fe2ba292-08b0-428c-8e27-8c851a4a8bbc textTable English utf8 environment biota 1999-11-01 2000-08-31 -2.241 -2.218 55.471 55.48 Comma-separated values (CSV) NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/fe2ba292-08b0-428c-8e27-8c851a4a8bbc.zip Supporting information Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset information https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/datastore/eidchub/fe2ba292-08b0-428c-8e27-8c851a4a8bbc/ 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)'s farm at Sourhope in the Scottish Borders. Soil samples were collected by students and staff at the experimental site in 1999 and 2000 before being processed according to standard protocols. Data were then transferred to the programme data manager at the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology.