2cbe3a8c-1a54-490d-a32d-078564c117b7 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 2025-11-13T16:16:34 UK GEMINI 2.3 WGS 84 Coastal Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability (CBESS) net primary productivity (NPP) on salt marsh sites at Morecambe Bay and Essex 2016-05-03 publication 2016-04-22 creation https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/2cbe3a8c-1a54-490d-a32d-078564c117b7 10.5285/2cbe3a8c-1a54-490d-a32d-078564c117b7 doi: Ford, H., Garbutt, A., Skov, M. (2016). Coastal Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability (CBESS) net primary productivity (NPP) on salt marsh sites at Morecambe Bay and Essex. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/2cbe3a8c-1a54-490d-a32d-078564c117b7 The dataset comprises net primary productivity (NPP) measured as kilogrammes of dry above-ground vegetation per square metre per year. Sampling was conducted at six salt marsh sites at four spatial scales: 1 metre (m) (the minimal sampling unit) nested within a hierarchy of increasing scales of 1-10 m, 10-100 m and 100-1000 m. Three of the sites were in Morecambe Bay, North West England and three of the sites were in Essex, South East England. NPP measurements were based on vegetation re-growth after cutting in winter 2013 and harvesting in summer 2013. This data was collected as part of Coastal Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability (CBESS). The project was funded with support from the Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability (BESS) programme. BESS is a six-year programme (2011-2017) funded by the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) as part of the UK's Living with Environmental Change (LWEC) programme. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/2cbe3a8c-1a54-490d-a32d-078564c117b7 Ford, H. Bangor University hilary.ford@bangor.ac.uk pointOfContact Ford, H. Bangor University hilary.ford@bangor.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9882-6972 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 Garbutt, A. Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9145-9786 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 Skov, M. Bangor University mwskov@bangor.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7204-3865 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 Bangor University EMAIL NOT PROVIDED owner notPlanned Habitats and Biotopes theme GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication salt marsh grassland vegetation GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3 2019-01-28 creation Morecambe Bay Essex GeoNames 2006-01-01 creation CBESS (Coastal Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability) BESS (Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability) Net Primary Production NPP otherRestrictions no limitations otherRestrictions © Bangor University otherRestrictions This resource is made available under the terms of the Open Government Licence otherRestrictions If you reuse this data, you should cite: Ford, H., Garbutt, A., Skov, M. (2016). Coastal Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability (CBESS) net primary productivity (NPP) on salt marsh sites at Morecambe Bay and Essex. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/2cbe3a8c-1a54-490d-a32d-078564c117b7 textTable English utf8 biota 2013-01-01 2013-08-31 -3 1.005 51.687 54.25 Comma-separated values (CSV) NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/2cbe3a8c-1a54-490d-a32d-078564c117b7.zip Supporting information Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset information https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/2cbe3a8c-1a54-490d-a32d-078564c117b7 Download the data Download a copy of this data download 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 Net primary productivity (NPP) was measured as an above ground vegetation sample (cut at ground level) of 50 centimetre (cm) x 25 cm inside grazer exclusion cages during the summer 2013 sampling period (after all above ground vegetation removed from 50 cm x 25 cm area in winter 2013). NPP was calculated from each quadrat by scaling up the mass of the dry vegetation to kg per square metre per year. Vegetation cut in field then dried at 60 degrees Celsius for 72 hours. Results were recorded onto field sheets. These data were transferred into an Excel file and calculations carried out. Results were exported as comma separated value files for ingestion into the EIDC. The location of the sample sites was determined by randomly allocated quadrats. Each site consisted of a rectangular area of saltmarsh between 400 x 500 metre (m) to 1000 x 1000 m in size, dependent upon saltmarsh length (parallel to shore) and width (perpendicular to shore), including part of the low, mid and high marsh zones. Twenty two 1 x 1 m quadrats were randomly allocated to each site rectangle using R (R Development Core Team, 2014) to specify four different spatial scales (A = 1 quadrat only, B = 3 quadrats at 1 m to 10 m apart, C = 6 quadrats at 10 m to 100 m apart, D = 12 quadrats at 100 m to 1000 m or site maximum).