8ac670c7-17d8-433f-847c-170eeeb3ee47 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 2026-01-09T12:56:43 UK GEMINI 2.3 GB place names Soil moisture, temperature and bulk density and earthworm abundance and biomass along transects from hedges into arable fields, pasture fields, ley strips established in arable fields and arable strips established in pasture fields at a farm in West Yorkshire. 2019-10-03 publication https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/8ac670c7-17d8-433f-847c-170eeeb3ee47 10.5285/8ac670c7-17d8-433f-847c-170eeeb3ee47 doi: Prendergast-Miller, M.T., Hodson, M.E. (2019). Soil moisture, temperature and bulk density and earthworm abundance and biomass along transects from hedges into arable fields, pasture fields, ley strips established in arable fields and arable strips established in pasture fields at a farm in West Yorkshire.. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/8ac670c7-17d8-433f-847c-170eeeb3ee47 [THIS DATASET HAS BEEN WITHDRAWN]. Data are presented on earthworm abundance with distance from hedgerows was recorded for arable fields and pasture leys at Spens farm, the University of Leeds experiment farms, Yorkshire. Sampling was carried out annual from April 2015 to April 2017 with additional sampling in December 2015, and July and October 2016. Pits were excavated and soil hand sorted for earthworms. Mustard solution was then poured into the pit and any emerging earthworms collected. All earthworms were preserved in ethanol for identification using the Sims and Gerard Field studies key. At each pit the following measurements were also taken: soil moisture, soil temperature, soil bulk density. The samples were taken to determine the influence of leys on soil quality by Miranda Prendergast-Miller and colleagues as part of the SoilBioHedge project (Grant Reference NE/M017095/1) funded by the NERC Soil Security Programme. (Grant Reference NE/M017044/1). Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/8ac670c7-17d8-433f-847c-170eeeb3ee47 Hodson, M.E. University of York mark.hodson@york.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8166-1526 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 pointOfContact NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian NERC Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher Prendergast-Miller, M.T. University of York Miranda.prendergast-miller@york.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3219-6250 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 Hodson, M.E. University of York mark.hodson@york.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8166-1526 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 University of York EMAIL NOT PROVIDED owner notPlanned Environmental Monitoring Facilities theme GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication soil earthworm GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3 2019-01-28 creation Biodiversity Soil otherRestrictions Superseded otherRestrictions This resource is available under the terms of the Open Government Licence otherRestrictions © University of York otherRestrictions If you reuse this data, you should cite: Prendergast-Miller, M.T., Hodson, M.E. (2019). Soil moisture, temperature and bulk density and earthworm abundance and biomass along transects from hedges into arable fields, pasture fields, ley strips established in arable fields and arable strips established in pasture fields at a farm in West Yorkshire.. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/8ac670c7-17d8-433f-847c-170eeeb3ee47 textTable 4 English utf8 biota 2016-05-12 2016-05-26 -1.581 -0.975 53.89 54.389 Comma-separated values (CSV) NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/8ac670c7-17d8-433f-847c-170eeeb3ee47.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 Soil pits (18 x 18 x 15 cm) were excavated along transects and the soil hand sorted for earthworms. Mustard solution was then poured into the pit and any emerging earthworms collected. All earthworms were preserved in ethanol for identification using the Sims and Gerard Field studies key. At each pit the following measurements were also taken: three soil moisture readings in millivolts (mV) were taken at both 5 and 10 cm depth using a ML3 ThetaProbe Soil Moisture Sensor, (Delta-T Devices); single soil temperature measurements at 5 and 10 cm depth using a Checktemp®1 probe (Hanna Instruments); soil bulk density samples were taken at 5 and 15 cm soil depth using steel bulk density rings (118 cm3), soil density was calculated on an oven dry basis. The data were entered into Excel spreadsheets and exported as comma separated value files (csv) for ingestion into the Environmental Information Data Centre.