a84622db-842d-40d2-aad8-e3f85bd306c9 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 2025-11-13T16:15:51 UK GEMINI 2.3 WGS 84 Coastal Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability (CBESS) dry weight root biomass from three soil depths on salt marsh sites at Morecambe Bay and Essex 2015-07-27 publication 2015-01-01 creation 1434359197624 CEH:EIDC: https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/a84622db-842d-40d2-aad8-e3f85bd306c9 10.5285/a84622db-842d-40d2-aad8-e3f85bd306c9 doi: 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 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 Ford, H. Bangor University hilary.ford@bangor.ac.uk pointOfContact Ford, H. Bangor University hilary.ford@bangor.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9882-6972 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 Garbutt, A. Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9145-9786 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 Skov, M. Bangor University mwskov@bangor.ac.uk author NERC Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian Bangor University EMAIL NOT PROVIDED owner notPlanned Habitats and Biotopes theme GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication Morecambe Bay Essex GeoNames 2006-01-01 creation root biomass BESS CBESS salt marsh coastal grassland otherRestrictions no limitations otherRestrictions This resource is made available under the terms of the Open Government Licence otherRestrictions © University of Bangor otherRestrictions 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 textTable English utf8 biota 2013-01-01 2013-08-31 -3 1 51.5 54.25 Comma-separated values (CSV) NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/a84622db-842d-40d2-aad8-e3f85bd306c9 Download the data Download a copy of this data download https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/a84622db-842d-40d2-aad8-e3f85bd306c9.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 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).