• NERC Data Catalogue Service
  •  
  •  
  •  

Topsoil invertebrate density estimates from the Countryside Survey of Great Britain, 2007 using a generalized additive model

This dataset presents modelled estimates of soil invertebrate density (individuals m-2) at 1km2 resolution across Great Britain. A Generalized Additive Model approach was used with Countryside Survey soil invertebrate density data from 2007 and including climate, habitat, soil and spatial predictors. The model is based on soil invertebrate density data from 830 locations across Great Britain and is representative of 0-8 cm soil depth. Soil invertebrates were extracted from cores using a dry Tullgren extraction method and enumerated by microscope. The Countryside Survey looks at a range of physical, chemical and biological properties of the topsoil from a representative sample of habitats across the UK. This work was supported by the Natural Environment Research Council award number NE/R016429/1 as part of the UK-SCAPE programme delivering National Capability. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/93207428-aace-4bb5-9073-2eb44ad632d1

Simple

Date (Publication)
2020-12-07
Identifier
https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/93207428-aace-4bb5-9073-2eb44ad632d1
Identifier
doi: / 10.5285/93207428-aace-4bb5-9073-2eb44ad632d1
Other citation details
Keith, A.M., Thomas, A.R.C., Henrys, P.A., Emmett, B.A. (2020). Topsoil invertebrate density estimates from the Countryside Survey of Great Britain, 2007 using a generalized additive model. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/93207428-aace-4bb5-9073-2eb44ad632d1
Author
  UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Keith, A.M.
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9619-1320
Author
  UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Thomas, A.R.C.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4929-7285
Author
  UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Henrys, P.A.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4758-1482
Author
  UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Emmett, B.A.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2713-4389
Point of contact
  UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Keith, A.
Publisher
  NERC Environmental Information Data Centre
Owner
  UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Custodian
  NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • Soil
GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3
  • invertebrate
Keywords
  • Soil
  • UK-SCAPE
  • Broad Habitat
  • Biology
  • Climate
  • Countryside Survey
  • Microarthropods
  • Parent Material Model
Access constraints
otherRestrictions Other restrictions
Other constraints
no limitations
Use constraints
otherRestrictions Other restrictions
Other constraints
This resource is available under the terms of the Open Government Licence
Use constraints
otherRestrictions Other restrictions
Other constraints
If you reuse this data, you should cite: Keith, A.M., Thomas, A.R.C., Henrys, P.A., Emmett, B.A. (2020). Topsoil invertebrate density estimates from the Countryside Survey of Great Britain, 2007 using a generalized additive model. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/93207428-aace-4bb5-9073-2eb44ad632d1
Spatial representation type
grid Grid
Distance
1000  urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Character set
utf8 UTF8
Topic category
  • Biota
  • Environment
  • Geoscientific information
Begin date
2007-01-01
End date
2007-12-31
N
S
E
W
thumbnail


Unique resource identifier
OSGB 1936 / British National Grid
Distribution format
  • NetCDF ( 4 )

Distributor
  NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
OnLine resource
Download the data

Download a copy of this data

OnLine resource
Supporting information

Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset

OnLine resource
WMS

A web map service is available for this dataset

Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset
Other
dataset

Conformance result

Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Statement
The data used to model soil invertebrate density are taken from the Countryside Survey. The technical reports by Emmett et al. (2010) present full methodological details for the Countryside Survey soil sampling and analytical processes, and can be found at: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/9354/1/CS_UK_2007_TR9.pdf
File identifier
93207428-aace-4bb5-9073-2eb44ad632d1 XML
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Character set
ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1) 8859 Part 1
Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset
Hierarchy level name
dataset
Date stamp
2025-11-13T16:23:16
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version
2.3
Point of contact
  NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg , Lancaster , LA1 4AP , UK
https://eidc.ac.uk/
 
 

Overviews

Spatial extent

N
S
E
W
thumbnail


Keywords

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
Soil

Provided by

logo

Share on social sites

Access to the portal
Read here the full details and access to the data.

Associated resources

Not available


  •  
  •  
  •