4c0fd1b5-2934-4bd4-b444-1a10499ee900 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 2025-11-13T16:18:13 UK GEMINI 2.3 OSGB 1936 / British National Grid Soil profile descriptions, biomass data and vegetation species from a joint sampling event at Sourhope, Scotland, 2000 [NERC Soil Biodiversity Programme] 2017-12-19 publication 2000-07-28 creation https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/4c0fd1b5-2934-4bd4-b444-1a10499ee900 10.5285/4c0fd1b5-2934-4bd4-b444-1a10499ee900 doi: Buckland, S., Cornish, C., Ray, N., Bruneau, P., Dawson, L., Ross, J. (2017). Soil profile descriptions, biomass data and vegetation species from a joint sampling event at Sourhope, Scotland, 2000 [NERC Soil Biodiversity Programme]. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/4c0fd1b5-2934-4bd4-b444-1a10499ee900 This dataset includes: biomass data for roots, shoots and litter in soil core samples, vegetation species abundance data for sampled soil blocks, and soil profile descriptions (horizon types & depths) with corresponding pH and moisture content values by horizon for soil blocks. All data were collected during a joint sampling event, held at Sourhope, Scotland, where co-ordinated sampling took place on the 27-28th July 2000 involving groups from within the NERC Soil Biodiversity Programme. A single block of soil was extracted from each of the sub-plots ('S' 'T' 'U' 'V') from within each of the main-plots (excluding Control 2 plots) at the field experiment site (see supporting information), and various baseline measurements were recorded. The soil blocks were divided up and sub-samples given to groups participating in the co-ordinated sampling, providing a range of information covering various aspects of soil research that can be linked to the same point in time and space. The NERC Soil Biodiversity Thematic Programme was established in 1999 and was 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 (Grid reference: NT 8545 1963). 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/10.5285/4c0fd1b5-2934-4bd4-b444-1a10499ee900 Sier, A. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk pointOfContact Buckland, S. Macaulay Land Use Research Institute info@hutton.ac.uk author Cornish, C. Macaulay Land Use Research Institute info@hutton.ac.uk author Ray, N. Macaulay Land Use Research Institute info@hutton.ac.uk author Bruneau, P. University of Stirling sbes1@stir.ac.uk author Dawson, L. Macaulay Land Use Research Institute info@hutton.ac.uk author Ross, J. Macaulay Land Use Research Institute info@hutton.ac.uk author NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian NERC Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher notPlanned Environmental Monitoring Facilities theme GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication Biodiversity Soil Sourhope otherRestrictions no limitations otherRestrictions This resource is made available under the terms of the Open Government Licence otherRestrictions © 2017 The James Hutton Institute otherRestrictions © 2017 University of Stirling otherRestrictions If you reuse this data, you should cite: Buckland, S., Cornish, C., Ray, N., Bruneau, P., Dawson, L., Ross, J. (2017). Soil profile descriptions, biomass data and vegetation species from a joint sampling event at Sourhope, Scotland, 2000 [NERC Soil Biodiversity Programme]. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/4c0fd1b5-2934-4bd4-b444-1a10499ee900 textTable English utf8 biota environment 2000-07-27 2000-07-28 -2.237 -2.222 55.468 55.475 Comma-separated values (CSV) NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/4c0fd1b5-2934-4bd4-b444-1a10499ee900 Download the data Download a copy of this data download https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/4c0fd1b5-2934-4bd4-b444-1a10499ee900.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 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 (Grid reference: NT8545019630). Data were collected by staff employed by MLURI and the University of Stirling and were managed by the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. Further details are available in the supporting information.