Impacts of increasing land use under energy crops - ecology data, 2006-2009
Ecological field data for a variety of biodiversity indicators were collected from commercial fields of both crops. The study is part of the NERC Rural Economy and Land Use (RELU) programme. Future policies are likely to encourage more land use under energy crops: principally willow, grown as short rotation coppice, and a tall exotic grass Miscanthus. These crops will contribute to the UK's commitment to reduce CO2 emissions. However, it is not clear how decisions about appropriate areas for growing the crops, based on climate, soil and water, should be balanced against impacts on the landscape, social acceptance, biodiversity and the rural economy. This project integrated social, economic, hydrological and biodiversity studies in an interdisciplinary approach to assessing the impact of converting land to Miscanthus grass and short-rotation coppice (SRC) willows. Two contrasting farming systems were focused on: the arable-dominated East Midlands; and grassland-dominated South West England. Ecological field data for a variety of biodiversity indicators were collected from commercial fields of both crops. The public attidues questionnaire data from this study are available at the UK Data Archive under study number 6615 (see online resources). Further documentation for this study may be found through the RELU Knowledge Portal and the project's ESRC funding award web page (see online resources).
INSPIRE
Identification
- File identifier
- 70b0258a-a903-4a7e-8588-1481af7b4dc7 XML
- Resource type
- dataset
Online resource
Resource identifier
- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Spatial representation type
- textTable
Encoding
- Format
- Comma-separated values (CSV)
Projection
- code
- WGS 84
Classification of data and services
- Topic category
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- Biota
- Environment
- Farming
Classification of data and services
Coupled resource
Coupled resource
Classification of data and services
Coupled resource
Coupled resource
Keywords
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ()
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- Land Use
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W
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- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2010-12-01
Quality and validity
- Lineage
- Research funded by Economic and Social Research Council, Natural Environment Research Council and Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council. Award Number: RES-227-25-0020 Biodiversity data consists of plant and invertebrate species/taxonomic group count data from 15 fields of SRC willows and 17 fields of Miscanthus. Indicators were sampled from positions around the edges of the crops and at various distances into the crop itself. Plant indicators were recorded as counts in quadrats, whereas invertebrate indicators were sampled using transect, suction-sampler or sticky trap, as appropriate for each indicator group. The ESRC award page (see online resources) hosts a publication (Haughton et al. 2009) which describes the collection of the biodiversity data set in more detail.
- Distance
- 1 urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
Conformity
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Conformity
Conformity
Conformity
Conformity
Restrictions on access and use
- Access constraints
- unknown
- Access constraints
- Standard conditions of use of the Economic and Social Data Service apply
Responsible organization (s)
Contact for the resource
- Organisation name
- Rothamsted Research
- enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
- Organisation name
- The Game Conservancy Trust
- enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
- Organisation name
- Rothamsted Research
- enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
- Organisation name
- The Game Conservancy Trust
- enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
- Organisation name
- The Game Conservancy Trust
- enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
Responsible organization (s)
Contact for the resource
- Organisation name
- Rothamsted Research
- enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
- Organisation name
- The Game Conservancy Trust
- enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
- Organisation name
- Rothamsted Research
- enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
- Organisation name
- The Game Conservancy Trust
- enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
- Organisation name
- The Game Conservancy Trust
- enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
Metadata information
Contact for the metadata
- Organisation name
- NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
- info@eidc.ac.uk
- Metadata Date
- 2024-02-27T16:28:12
- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Character set
- utf8