Coastal Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability (CBESS) dry weight root biomass from three soil depths on salt marsh sites at Morecambe Bay and Essex

The dataset comprises of dry weight root biomass data collected from 0 cm to 10 cm, 10 cm to 20 cm and 20 cm to 30 cm soil depths from six salt marsh sites. 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/a84622db-842d-40d2-aad8-e3f85bd306c9

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Date (Publication)
2015-07-27
Date (Creation)
2015-01-01
Identifier
CEH:EIDC: / 1434359197624
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https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/a84622db-842d-40d2-aad8-e3f85bd306c9
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doi: / 10.5285/a84622db-842d-40d2-aad8-e3f85bd306c9
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Ford, H., Garbutt, A., Skov, M. (2015). Coastal Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability (CBESS) dry weight root biomass from three soil depths on salt marsh sites at Morecambe Bay and Essex. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/a84622db-842d-40d2-aad8-e3f85bd306c9
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  Bangor University - Ford, H.
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  Bangor University - Ford, H.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9882-6972
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  Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Garbutt, A.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9145-9786
Author
  Bangor University - Skov, M.
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  NERC Environmental Information Data Centre
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  NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
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  Bangor University
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  • Habitats and Biotopes
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Keywords
  • root biomass
  • BESS
  • CBESS
  • salt marsh
  • coastal grassland
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If you reuse this data, you should cite: Ford, H., Garbutt, A., Skov, M. (2015). Coastal Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability (CBESS) dry weight root biomass from three soil depths on salt marsh sites at Morecambe Bay and Essex. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/a84622db-842d-40d2-aad8-e3f85bd306c9
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2013-01-01
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2013-08-31
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2010-12-08
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Roots were collected by taking sediment cores (16cm diameter, 30cm depth). The cores comprised of soil, intact roots and above ground vegetation. The roots were exposed by washing away the soil in a recirculating flume and then divided into three depth section. 0cm to 10 cm, 10cm to 20 cm and 20cm to 30cm. The roots were then dried at 60 degrees centigrade for 72 hours and weighed. Results were converted from kilogrammes of dry weight per core area to kilogrammes of dry weight per square metre. 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 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 t 1000 m or site maximum).
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