4c7d4b3c-88f7-43ab-a50f-b6804474e568 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 2025-11-13T16:16:18 UK GEMINI 2.3 WGS 84 Greenhouse gas emissions, nitrogen use efficiency and biomass from inorganic fertiliser additions to grassland at North Wyke and Henfaes, UK (2016) 2019-04-16 publication 2016-10-31 creation https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/4c7d4b3c-88f7-43ab-a50f-b6804474e568 10.5285/4c7d4b3c-88f7-43ab-a50f-b6804474e568 doi: Carswell, A.M., Shaw, R., Sánchez-Rodríguez, A.R., Cotton, J.M., Chadwick, D.R., Jones, D.L., Misselbrook, T.H., Saunders, K.S., Hunt, J., Reinsch, S. (2019). Greenhouse gas emissions, nitrogen use efficiency and biomass from inorganic fertiliser additions to grassland at North Wyke and Henfaes, UK (2016). NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/4c7d4b3c-88f7-43ab-a50f-b6804474e568 The data consists of nitrogen (N) offtake, N emissions and soil N parameters, and herbage quality parameters from a three-cut silage plot trial located at two grassland sites within the UK collected between April and October 2016. The sites were Rothamsted Research at North Wyke in Devon and Bangor University at Henfaes Research Station in North Wales. At each site measurements were taken from 16 plots, organised within a randomised complete block design. Fertiliser was applied three times and three cuts were performed, all parameters measured were following a fertiliser application. Nitrogen parameters measured were crude protein (CP) of herbage, ammonia (NH3) emissions, nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions, and soil ammonium (NH4) and nitrate (NO3). Herbage quality parameters measured were dry matter, acid-digestible fibre (ADF), ash, CP, metabolizable energy (ME), and non-digestible fibre (NDF) and digestibility (D) was calculated. Nitrogen offtake, losses and fluxes were measured to determine the N use efficiency and the economic viability of different N fertilisers. Measurements were undertaken by members of staff from Bangor University, School of Environment, Natural Resources & Geography and Rothamsted Research, Sustainable Agricultural Sciences – North Wyke. Data was collected for the Newton Fund project "UK-China Virtual Joint Centre for Improved Nitrogen Agronomy". Funded by Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and NERC - Ref BB/N013468/1 Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/4c7d4b3c-88f7-43ab-a50f-b6804474e568 Reinsch, S. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk pointOfContact Carswell, A.M. Rothamsted Research alison.carswell@rothamsted.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0580-6698 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 Shaw, R. Bangor University roryshaw@hotmail.com author Sánchez-Rodríguez, A.R. Bangor University antonio.sanchez@uco.es https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8734-2035 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 Cotton, J.M. Bangor University j.m.cotton@bangor.ac.uk author Chadwick, D.R. Bangor University d.chadwick@bangor.ac.uk author Jones, D.L. Unaffiliated 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 Misselbrook, T.H. Rothamsted Research tom.misselbrook@rothamsted.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4594-3606 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 Saunders, K.S. Rothamsted Research karen.saunders@rothamsted.ac.uk author Hunt, J. Rothamsted Research john.hunt@rothamsted.ac.uk author Reinsch, S. Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4649-0677 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 notPlanned Environmental Monitoring Facilities theme GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication fertiliser nitrogen grassland greenhouse gas GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3 2019-01-28 creation Agriculture Climate and climate change Pollution CINAg Centre for Improved Nitrogen Agronomy Urease inhibitor Nitrogen use efficiency (NUE) GHG otherRestrictions no limitations otherRestrictions This resource is made available under the terms of the Open Government Licence otherRestrictions © Rothamsted Research otherRestrictions © Bangor University otherRestrictions © UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology otherRestrictions If you reuse this data, you should cite: Carswell, A.M., Shaw, R., Sánchez-Rodríguez, A.R., Cotton, J.M., Chadwick, D.R., Jones, D.L., Misselbrook, T.H., Saunders, K.S., Hunt, J., Reinsch, S. (2019). Greenhouse gas emissions, nitrogen use efficiency and biomass from inorganic fertiliser additions to grassland at North Wyke and Henfaes, UK (2016). NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/4c7d4b3c-88f7-43ab-a50f-b6804474e568 textTable English utf8 farming environment 2016-04-01 2016-10-31 -4.022 -3.892 50.767 53.241 Comma-separated values (CSV) NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/datastore/eidchub/4c7d4b3c-88f7-43ab-a50f-b6804474e568 Download the data Download a copy of this data fileAccess https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/4c7d4b3c-88f7-43ab-a50f-b6804474e568.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 At each site measurements were taken from sixteen plots, organised within a randomised complete block design. Four plots did not receive fertilizers (controls), four plots received urea only, four plots received urea and urea-inhibitors, and 4 plots received Ammonium-nitrate (Nitram). Cumulative NH3 emissions were measured using a wind tunnel technique, at a daily resolution for 21 days following each N fertiliser application. Nitrous oxide emissions were measured using a combination of static manual and static automatic (combined with an Isotopic N2O Analyser, Los Gatos Research Inc. San Jose, CA, USA) chambers. Using the manual static chambers, the resolution of N2O measurements following N fertiliser application was 3 x weekly for weeks 1 and 2, 2 x weekly for weeks 3 and 4, and 1 x weekly thereafter. Using the automatic static chambers, the resolution of N2O measurements following N fertiliser application was approximately every six hours. Samples for soil NH4 and NO3 analyses were collected at the same temporal resolution as the N2O sampling using manual static chambers. Herbage yield measurements were carried out on the day of cutting, and samples of the fresh-cut herbage were couriered within 24 h to external contractors (Trouw Nutrition GB, Blenheim House, Ashbourne, UK and Sciantec Analytical Laboratories, Stockbridge Technology Centre, York, UK) for quality analyses of (CP, ME, NDF, ADF and DM). Digestibility was calculated. All results were entered into Excel spreadsheets providing individual datasets for each set of N parameters. Data were exported from Excel as .csv files for ingestion into the EIDC.