Date (Publication)

2022-08-25

Identifier

https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/691a823c-d1da-4420-837c-3c30ce83818b

Identifier

doi: / 10.5285/691a823c-d1da-4420-837c-3c30ce83818b

Other citation details

McDonald, A.W., Mountford, J.O., Stone, M.J., Gowing, D.J.G. (2022). Plant species composition of a meadow sward exposed to grazing treatments at Somerford Mead, Oxford 1987-2014. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/691a823c-d1da-4420-837c-3c30ce83818b

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

• Habitats and Biotopes

GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3

• grazing
• grassland
• floodplain
• cattle

Keywords

• Biodiversity
• Floodplain Meadow
• Sheep
• Ungrazed
• Thames
• Oxfordshire
• Wytham
• Long-term
• Experimental

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This resource is available under the terms of the Open Government Licence

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Dr A.W. McDonald should be acknowledged as the main originator of these data in their use and in any further dissemination

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If you reuse this data, you should cite: McDonald, A.W., Mountford, J.O., Stone, M.J., Gowing, D.J.G. (2022). Plant species composition of a meadow sward exposed to grazing treatments at Somerford Mead, Oxford 1987-2014. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/691a823c-d1da-4420-837c-3c30ce83818b

Spatial representation type

textTable Text, table

Distance

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Metadata language

EnglishEnglish

Character set

utf8 UTF8

Topic category

• Biota
• Environment
• Farming

Begin date

1987-01-01

End date

2014-12-31

Unique resource identifier

WGS 84

Distribution format

• Comma-separated values (CSV) ()

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Statement

The data were gathered on site by Dr Alison McDonald herself or by students (often Dutch) under her supervision during the period 1987 to 2013. In 2014, staff from UKCEH undertook the survey under the direction of J. Owen Mountford. Data were recorded in the field onto pre-prepared forms listing all species previously found on the site. The data were input into an Excel spreadsheet by Dr Melanie Stone on behalf of the Floodplain Meadows Partnership (FMP) in 2021. This work was funded by the Ecological Continuity Trust. The data were subsequently converted to individual text files (.csv) by Prof David Gowing (FMP). The taxonomic accuracy of the names and the species counts were checked by Dr Stone on inputting and comments added where corrections made.

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Date stamp

2025-11-13T16:17:42

Metadata standard name

UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version

2.3