64d64b2c-5f80-4dd5-b778-41c048f96caf 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 2025-11-13T16:19:33 UK GEMINI 2.3 OSGB 1936 / British National Grid Coastal Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability (CBESS) sediment stability by Cohesive Strength Meter (CSM) in salt marsh and mud flat habitats 2015-12-31 publication 2013-08-31 creation https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/64d64b2c-5f80-4dd5-b778-41c048f96caf 10.5285/64d64b2c-5f80-4dd5-b778-41c048f96caf doi: Paterson, D.M., Hope, J.A., Wade, K., Kenworthy, J., Defew, E.C., Weeks, R.J., Wyness, A. (2015). Coastal Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability (CBESS) sediment stability by Cohesive Strength Meter (CSM) in salt marsh and mud flat habitats. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/64d64b2c-5f80-4dd5-b778-41c048f96caf The dataset comprises the surface stability of sediments as determined by a Cohesive Strength Meter (CSM). Between 3 and 5 replicate measurements were taken from each of the 22 designated experiment quadrats at each of the Coastal Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability (CBESS) sites. At each CBESS site, a salt marsh site and a mud flat site was examined and three locations were selected in Morecambe Bay, North West England and three locations in Essex, South East England. The Morecambe Bay samples were taken during the winter and summer of 2013. The Essex samples were taken during the winter, early spring and summer of 2013. This data were collected as part of Coastal Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability (CBESS): NE/J015644/1. 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/10.5285/64d64b2c-5f80-4dd5-b778-41c048f96caf Paterson, D.M. University of St Andrews d.paterson@st-andrews.ac.uk pointOfContact Paterson, D.M. University of St Andrews d.paterson@st-andrews.ac.uk author Hope, J.A. University of St Andrews jah23@st-andrews.ac.uk author Wade, K. University of St Andrews kw64@st-andrews.ac.uk author Kenworthy, J. University of St Andrews jmk6@st-andrews.ac.uk author Defew, E.C. University of St Andrews ecd2@st-andrews.ac.uk author Weeks, R.J. Scottish Association for Marine Science Rebecca.Weeks@sams.ac.uk author Wyness, A. The James Hutton Institute Adam.Wyness@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 University of St Andrews EMAIL NOT PROVIDED owner notPlanned Dataset is complete Habitats and Biotopes theme GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication sedimentology salt marsh mud flat sediment erosion GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3 2019-01-28 creation Morecambe Bay Essex GeoNames 2006-01-01 creation CBESS BESS sediment stability critical erosion threshold Cohesive Strength Meter otherRestrictions no limitations otherRestrictions This resource is made available under the terms of the Open Government Licence otherRestrictions © University of St Andrews otherRestrictions If you reuse this data, you should cite: Paterson, D.M., Hope, J.A., Wade, K., Kenworthy, J., Defew, E.C., Weeks, R.J., Wyness, A. (2015). Coastal Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability (CBESS) sediment stability by Cohesive Strength Meter (CSM) in salt marsh and mud flat habitats. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/64d64b2c-5f80-4dd5-b778-41c048f96caf textTable English utf8 oceans 2013-01-01 2013-08-31 -3 1.005 51.687 54.25 Comma-separated values (CSV) EIDC info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/64d64b2c-5f80-4dd5-b778-41c048f96caf Download the data Download a copy of this data download https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/64d64b2c-5f80-4dd5-b778-41c048f96caf.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 Each site consisted of a polygon of roughly 400 x 500 m to 1000 x 1000 m in size, dependent upon site length (parallel to shore) and width (perpendicular to shore). Twenty two 1 x 1 m quadrats were randomly placed within to each site polygon using R (R Development Core Team, 2014) to specify placement at 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). In each quadrat, the CSM was deployed and the erosion threshold of the sediment determined. 3- 5 replicates measurement stations were randomly placed within the quadrat, according to the quadrat-sampling plan.