385ec5ab-0c47-46fc-b5df-008ca024296f 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 2025-11-13T16:16:01 UK GEMINI 2.3 OSGB 1936 / British National Grid Urination data for Welsh Mountain ewes grazing upland and lowland pastures in North Wales, 2016 2021-04-22 publication https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/385ec5ab-0c47-46fc-b5df-008ca024296f 10.5285/385ec5ab-0c47-46fc-b5df-008ca024296f doi: Marsden, K.A., Lush, L., Holmberg, J.A., Whelan, M.J., King, A.J., Wilson, R.P., Charteris, A.F., Cardenas, L.M., Jones, D.L., Chadwick, D.R. (2021). Urination data for Welsh Mountain ewes grazing upland and lowland pastures in North Wales, 2016. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/385ec5ab-0c47-46fc-b5df-008ca024296f The data contains urination metrics including frequency, volume, chemical composition, estimated urine patch N loading rates and metabolomics profile of individual urine events from sheep (Welsh Mountain ewe) grazing a semi-improved upland pasture and a lowland improved pasture located in North Wales, UK. Urine collection studies were run in the spring, summer and autumn of 2016 for the semi-improved site and in autumn of 2016 on the lowland improved pasture. Sheep were housed in urine collection pens and while in the pens, each individual urine event was collected and stored separately. The study was conducted as a wider part of the NERC funded Uplands-N2O project (Grant No: NE/M015351/1). The frequency, volume and chemical composition of individual urine events has implications for nitrogen losses from the grazed pasture ecosystem, including emissions of the powerful greenhouse gas, nitrous oxide, and nitrate leaching. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/385ec5ab-0c47-46fc-b5df-008ca024296f Marsden, K. Bangor University k.marsden@bangor.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0605-3918 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 pointOfContact Marsden, K.A. Bangor University k.marsden@bangor.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0605-3918 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 Lush, L. Swansea University Lucylush04@hotmail.com author Holmberg, J.A. Bangor University j.a.holmberg@bangor.ac.uk author Whelan, M.J. University of Leicester mjw72@leicester.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0277-9559 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 King, A.J. Swansea University a.j.king@swansea.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6870-9767 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 Wilson, R.P. Swansea University r.p.wilson@swansea.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3177-0177 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 Charteris, A.F. Rothamsted Research, North Wyke alice.charteris@rothamsted.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2748-4677 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 Cardenas, L.M. Rothamsted Research, North Wyke laura.cardenas@rothamsted.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4401-9163 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 Jones, D.L. Bangor University d.jones@bangor.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1482-4209 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 Chadwick, D.R. Bangor University d.chadwick@bangor.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8479-8157 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 Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher Bangor University EMAIL NOT PROVIDED owner NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian Habitats and Biotopes theme GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication agriculture livestock farming GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3 2019-01-28 creation Animal behaviour nitrogen otherRestrictions no limitations otherRestrictions This resource is available under the terms of the Open Government Licence otherRestrictions If you reuse this data, you should cite: Marsden, K.A., Lush, L., Holmberg, J.A., Whelan, M.J., King, A.J., Wilson, R.P., Charteris, A.F., Cardenas, L.M., Jones, D.L., Chadwick, D.R. (2021). Urination data for Welsh Mountain ewes grazing upland and lowland pastures in North Wales, 2016. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/385ec5ab-0c47-46fc-b5df-008ca024296f textTable English utf8 biota 2016-03-01 2016-10-31 -4.374 -2.775 52.493 53.434 Comma-separated values (CSV) NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/385ec5ab-0c47-46fc-b5df-008ca024296f Download the data Download a copy of this data download https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/385ec5ab-0c47-46fc-b5df-008ca024296f.zip Supporting information Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset information 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 Barren Welsh Mountain ewes (n = 6) were acclimatised on their respective pastures by allowing them to graze freely for five days prior to urine collection. Typically, between the hours of 10:00 and 16:00 the sheep were held in urine collection pens, which had slatted flooring raised above the ground and a urine collection tray located beneath. This allowed for the collection and storage of individual urine events from the individual sheep. Sheep were fed ad libitum while in the pens with cut and carried feed from the same respective pastures. Samples of the feed were retained and sent for forage analyses by Sciantec Analytical (Cawood Scientific Ltd., North Yorkshire, UK). Measurements of sheep urine frequency and volume were recorded in the field, including time and date of each urine event. These were extrapolated to provide urine parameters including an estimate of daily frequency, daily volume and daily N excretion and N loading rates per urine patch. Upon return to the laboratory the urine samples were stored frozen before being analysed for their chemical constituents including the urine pH, EC, total organic C, total N, urea, nitrate, ammonium, amino acid, allantoin, creatinine, uric acid, hippuric acid, benzoic acid, Ca, Na and K contents. The dataset also contains individual urine event metabolomics profile for a subsample of the urine for spring compared to summer (semi-improved site) and for the autumn semi-improved pasture compared to autumn improved pasture. The data also includes meteorological data for each study. Readers are directed to the supporting documentation for further analytical details and quality control procedures for the measurements undertaken.