• NERC Data Catalogue Service
  •  
  •  
  •  

Topsoil meso-fauna data from the Glastir Monitoring and Evaluation Programme, Wales 2013-2014

This data set includes counts of soil meso-fauna collected from topsoil within a wide range of land use types across Wales, collected as part of the Glastir Monitoring and Evaluation Programme (GMEP). Meso-fauna include collembola (springtails) and acari (mites). The monitoring programme was set up by the Welsh Government in 2013 to monitor the effects of the Glastir agri-environment scheme on the environment and ran from 2013 to 2016. The field survey element was based on a stratified random sampling design of 300 x 1km square sites across Wales, and was managed by the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/1c5cf317-2f03-4fef-b060-9eccbb4d9c21

Simple

Date (Publication)
2019-11-18
Identifier
https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/1c5cf317-2f03-4fef-b060-9eccbb4d9c21
Identifier
doi: / 10.5285/1c5cf317-2f03-4fef-b060-9eccbb4d9c21
Other citation details
Keith, A.M., Astbury, S., Dodd, B.A., Emmett, B.A., Fitton, A., Garbutt, A., George, P., Marshall, R., Robinson, D.A., Williams, B., Wood, C.M. (2019). Topsoil meso-fauna data from the Glastir Monitoring and Evaluation Programme, Wales 2013-2014. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/1c5cf317-2f03-4fef-b060-9eccbb4d9c21
Point of contact
  UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Keith, A.
Author
  Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Keith, A.M.
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9619-1320
Author
  Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Astbury, S.
Author
  Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Dodd, B.A.
Author
  Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Emmett, B.A.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2713-4389
Author
  Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Fitton, A.
Author
  Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Garbutt, A.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9145-9786
Author
  Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - George, P.
Author
  Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Marshall, R.
Author
  Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Robinson, D.A.
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7290-4867
Author
  Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Williams, B.
Author
  Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Wood, C.M.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0394-2998
Custodian
  NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
Publisher
  NERC Environmental Information Data Centre
Maintenance and update frequency
notPlanned Not planned
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • Soil
Wikidata
  • Phthiracaridae
  • Poduromorpha
  • Entomobryomorpha
  • Symphypleona
  • Neelipleona
GeoNames
  • Wales
Keywords
  • Environmental survey
  • Soil
  • Biodiversity
  • GMEP
  • Glastir Monitoring and Evaluation Programme
  • Mesostigmatid
Access constraints
otherRestrictions Other restrictions
Other constraints
no limitations
Use constraints
otherRestrictions Other restrictions
Other constraints
This resource is available under the terms of the Open Government Licence
Use constraints
otherRestrictions Other restrictions
Other constraints
© Crown copyright: Welsh Government licenced under the Open Government Licence v3.0
Use constraints
otherRestrictions Other restrictions
Other constraints
© Hawlfraint y Goron: Llywodraeth Cymru Mae’r holl gynnwys ar gael dan Drwydded Llywodraeth Agored v3.0
Use constraints
otherRestrictions Other restrictions
Other constraints
For the avoidance of doubt, if the publication of the Licensed Data is not within Wales, the Welsh form of the acknowledgement wording is not required.
Use constraints
otherRestrictions Other restrictions
Other constraints
If you reuse this data, you should cite: Keith, A.M., Astbury, S., Dodd, B.A., Emmett, B.A., Fitton, A., Garbutt, A., George, P., Marshall, R., Robinson, D.A., Williams, B., Wood, C.M. (2019). Topsoil meso-fauna data from the Glastir Monitoring and Evaluation Programme, Wales 2013-2014. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/1c5cf317-2f03-4fef-b060-9eccbb4d9c21
Spatial representation type
textTable Text, table
Distance
10000  urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Character set
utf8 UTF8
Topic category
  • Biota
Begin date
2013-04-01
End date
2014-12-01
N
S
E
W
thumbnail


Unique resource identifier
OSGB 1936 / British National Grid
Distribution format
  • Comma-separated values (CSV) ()

Distributor
  NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
OnLine resource
Download the data

Download a copy of this data

OnLine resource
Supporting information

Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset

Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset
Other
dataset

Conformance result

Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Statement
Within each of 300 x 1km sample squares, a set of soil samples are taken from five pre-determined randomly dispersed locations (where possible). The soil sample analysed for soil fauna is taken using a white plastic core (‘F-core’), 8cm long, from a location co-incident with vegetation surveys. After collection, the soil cores were posted as soon as possible to laboratories at the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Lancaster, for faunal extraction. To ensure confidentiality of the data with respect to land owners and managers, the locations of 1km squares and survey sites were converted to the centres of the containing 10km Ordnance Survey grid squares.
File identifier
1c5cf317-2f03-4fef-b060-9eccbb4d9c21 XML
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Character set
ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1) 8859 Part 1
Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset
Hierarchy level name
dataset
Date stamp
2025-11-13T16:17:50
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version
2.3
Point of contact
  NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg , Lancaster , LA1 4AP , UK
https://eidc.ac.uk/
 
 

Overviews

Spatial extent

N
S
E
W
thumbnail


Keywords

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
Soil

Provided by

logo

Share on social sites

Access to the portal
Read here the full details and access to the data.

Associated resources

Not available


  •  
  •  
  •