Description of peatland sites included in the compilation of carbon accumulation rates (NERC grant NE/I012915/1)
Description of peatland sites included in the compilation of carbon accumulation rates, including resolution (high, low), interpolation (yes/no), contributor name, country, lon, lat, peatland type, dominant plant type, no. of dates used in the last millenium carbon accumulation rate calculation, and problems with the data. Peatland sites at northern hemisphere high and mid latitudes (260), tropical (30) and southern hemisphere high latitudes (7 sites).
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- Date (Creation)
- 2015-12
Point of contact
University of Exeter
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Professor Dan Charman
(
College of Life Environmental Sciences
)
Hatherly Building, Prince of Wales Road
,
Exeter
,
EX4 4PS
,
United Kingdom
Point of contact
University of Exeter
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Dr Angela Gallego-Sala
(
College of Life and Environmental Sciences
)
, Rennes Drive
,
Exeter
,
EX4 4RJ
,
- Maintenance and update frequency
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- NERC_DDC
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- no limitations
- Other constraints
- The dataset is made freely available for access, e.g. via the Internet. Either no third party data / information is contained in the dataset or BGS has secured written permission from the owner(s) of any third party data / information contained in the dataset to make the dataset freely accessible.
- Use constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- The copyright of materials derived from the British Geological Survey's work is vested in the Natural Environment Research Council [NERC]. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a retrieval system of any nature, without the prior permission of the copyright holder, via the BGS Intellectual Property Rights Manager. Use by customers of information provided by the BGS, is at the customer's own risk. In view of the disparate sources of information at BGS's disposal, including such material donated to BGS, that BGS accepts in good faith as being accurate, the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) gives no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the quality or accuracy of the information supplied, or to the information's suitability for any use. NERC/BGS accepts no liability whatever in respect of loss, damage, injury or other occurence however caused.
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- The dataset is made available to external clients under BGS Digital Data Licence terms and conditions. Revert to the IPR Section (iprdigital@bgs.ac.uk ) if further advice is required with regard to permitted usage.
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- 1979
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- 2015-12 Before
- Supplemental Information
- NERC grant lead award NE/I012915/1, child grants NE/I013776/1 and NE/I012281/1
Reference System Information
No information provided.
- Distribution format
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- OnLine resource
- http://www.nature.com/articles/srep28758
- OnLine resource
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.05.012
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Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 2011
- Explanation
- See the referenced specification
- Pass
- No
Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Explanation
- See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF
- Pass
- No
- Statement
- No lineage information provided, see publications http://www.nature.com/articles/srep28758 and http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.05.012
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- Date stamp
- 2025-07-09
- Metadata standard name
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- Metadata standard version
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Point of contact
British Geological Survey
Environmental Science Centre,Keyworth
,
NOTTINGHAM
,
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE
,
NG12 5GG
,
United Kingdom
+44 115 936 3100
- Dataset URI
- http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607084
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