Coastal Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability (CBESS) soil organic matter content from three soil depths on saltmarsh sites at Morecambe Bay and Essex

The dataset comprises the field soil organic matter content as a percentage at three depth zones (roughly 0-10 cm, 10-20 cm and 20-30 cm), measured from bulk density soil samples taken within each 1metre x 1metre quadrat. Prior to measurement of bulk density all soil samples were dried at 105°C for 72 hours. A sub-sample was then taken and dried at 375°C for 16 hours to determine the percentage organic matter of dry soil. Sampling was conducted at six salt marsh sites at four spatial scales: 1 metre (the minimal sampling unit) nested within a hierarchy of increasing scales of 1-10 metres, 10-100 metres and 100-1000 metres. Three of the sites were in Morecambe Bay, North West England and three of the sites were 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 was 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/10.5285/90457ba1-f291-4158-82dc-425d7cbb1ac5

 
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Ford, H. (Bangor University) - Garbutt, A. (Centre for Ecology & Hydrology) - Skov, M. (Bangor University) - Environmental Information Data Centre (2016) . Coastal Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability (CBESS) soil organic matter content from three soil depths on saltmarsh sites at Morecambe Bay and Essex. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://data-search.nerc.ac.uk:443/geonetwork/srv/api/records/90457ba1-f291-4158-82dc-425d7cbb1ac5
 

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2016-04-29
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2016-04-22
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https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/90457ba1-f291-4158-82dc-425d7cbb1ac5
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Ford, H., Garbutt, A., Skov, M. (2016). Coastal Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability (CBESS) soil organic matter content from three soil depths on saltmarsh sites at Morecambe Bay and Essex. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/90457ba1-f291-4158-82dc-425d7cbb1ac5

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  • Essex , Morecambe Bay
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  • CBESS (Coastal Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability) , BESS (Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability) , Salt marsh , Soil Organic Matter , SOM
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If you reuse this data, you should cite: Ford, H., Garbutt, A., Skov, M. (2016). Coastal Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability (CBESS) soil organic matter content from three soil depths on saltmarsh sites at Morecambe Bay and Essex. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/90457ba1-f291-4158-82dc-425d7cbb1ac5
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Field soil organic matter was measured from bulk density samples taken at roughly 0-10cm, 10-20 cm and 20-30 cm depth zones with a 3.1 cm height, and 7.5 cm diameter bulk density ring for each quadrat. Prior to measurement of bulk density all soil samples were dried at 105°C for 72 hours. A sub-sample was then taken and dried at 375°C for 16 hours to determine the percentage organic matter of dry soil. Results were recorded onto field sheets. These data were transferred into an Excel file and calculations carried out. Results were exported as comma separated value files for ingestion into the EIDC. The location of the sample sites was determined by randomly allocated quadrats. Each site consisted of a rectangular area of saltmarsh between 400 x 500 metres (m) to 1000 x 1000 m in size, dependent upon saltmarsh length (parallel to shore) and width (perpendicular to shore), including part of the low, mid and high marsh zones. Twenty two 1 x 1 m quadrats were randomly allocated to each site rectangle using R (R Development Core Team, 2014) to specify 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).

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