b76223dd-28ae-4b0e-acd3-3b2104eaae0c 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 2025-11-13T16:16:05 UK GEMINI 2.3 OSGB 1936 / British National Grid Soil and vegetation ecological function data in native reforestation, unforested and mature forest plots in the Scottish Highlands, 2018 2021-09-29 publication https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/b76223dd-28ae-4b0e-acd3-3b2104eaae0c 10.5285/b76223dd-28ae-4b0e-acd3-3b2104eaae0c doi: Warner, E., Lewis, O.T., Hector, A., Brown, N., Green, R., Gilbert, D., McDonnell, A. (2021). Soil and vegetation ecological function data in native reforestation, unforested and mature forest plots in the Scottish Highlands, 2018. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/b76223dd-28ae-4b0e-acd3-3b2104eaae0c Ecosystem functions (including aboveground carbon, topsoil carbon, topsoil nitrogen, decomposition rates, soil invertebrate feeding, tree regeneration & vegetation structure) in woodland creation sites and unforested and mature forest areas in the Scottish Highlands. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/b76223dd-28ae-4b0e-acd3-3b2104eaae0c Warner, E. University of Oxford emily.warner@plants.ox.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2236-9725 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 Warner, E. University of Oxford emily.warner@plants.ox.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2236-9725 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 Lewis, O.T. University of Oxford owen.lewis@zoo.ox.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7935-6111 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 Hector, A. University of Oxford andrew.hector@plants.ox.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1309-7716 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 Brown, N. University of Oxford nick.brown@linacre.ox.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9955-7858 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 Green, R. University of Manchester rowan.green@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2147-9087 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 Gilbert, D. Trees for Life doug@treesforlife.org.uk author McDonnell, A. Trees for Life alanm@treesforlife.org.uk author University of Oxford iprm@admin.ox.ac.uk owner Trees for Life info@treesforlife.org.uk owner NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher Environmental Monitoring Facilities theme GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication vegetation soil carbon reforestation decomposition nitrogen invertebrate regeneration tree vegetation GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3 2019-01-28 creation Scottish Highlands Ecosystem function forest expansion woodland creation otherRestrictions no limitations otherRestrictions This resource is available under the terms of the Open Government Licence otherRestrictions If you reuse this data, you should cite: Warner, E., Lewis, O.T., Hector, A., Brown, N., Green, R., Gilbert, D., McDonnell, A. (2021). Soil and vegetation ecological function data in native reforestation, unforested and mature forest plots in the Scottish Highlands, 2018. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/b76223dd-28ae-4b0e-acd3-3b2104eaae0c textTable English utf8 environment 2018-06-01 2018-08-31 -5.23 -4.726 57.2 57.314 Comma-separated values (CSV) NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/b76223dd-28ae-4b0e-acd3-3b2104eaae0c Download the data Download a copy of this data download https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/b76223dd-28ae-4b0e-acd3-3b2104eaae0c.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 Fieldwork to establish this dataset was carried out during June-August 2018. Data were collected in 10×10m survey plots, with a focal plot in 14 ungrazed woodland creation sites, matched to grazed and ungrazed unforested plots. Data were collected in a further 5 pairs of grazed and ungrazed plots in the target habitat (Caledonian pinewood). Aboveground tree carbon was calculated using allometric equations based on dbh (diameter at breast height) measured in the field in July 2018. Topsoil carbon and nitrogen was calculated based on soil sampling during July 2018. Percentage carbon and nitrogen were analysed at Forest Research’s labs. Total carbon and nitrogen were calculated based on % C/N and bulk density. Decomposition rates were calculated using the Teabag Index, teabags were buried in June and reclaimed 3 months later in August. Soil invertebrate feeding was monitored using bait lamina, which were buried for 30 days from early June to early July. Vegetation structure (shrub height and moss depth) and seedling regeneration were measured in the field during June and July 2018.