c46028c6-1d2b-4b40-a174-39ea3fee2499 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 2025-11-13T16:18:22 UK GEMINI 2.3 WGS 84 / Pseudo-Mercator Electrical resistance of trees and soil in Ankasa forest, Ghana, 2019 2024-02-08 publication https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/c46028c6-1d2b-4b40-a174-39ea3fee2499 10.5285/c46028c6-1d2b-4b40-a174-39ea3fee2499 doi: Stivanello, S., Clark, D., Adu-Bredu, S., Haddad, M., Hill, T. (2024). Electrical resistance of trees and soil in Ankasa forest, Ghana, 2019. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/c46028c6-1d2b-4b40-a174-39ea3fee2499 Measurements of tree resistance to ground and adjacent soils in the Ankasa Conservation Area located in southwestern Ghana. Tree species were selected as representative of the dominant species with diameter at breast height (DBH) ranging from 17.8 to 77.8 cm. The selected 20 trees had DBH ranging from 17.8 to 77.8 cm. In addition, measurements were extended to a single liana (Connarus africanus) with 7.0 cm DBH. Data on tree and soil resistivity were collected on the same 20 trees for both wet (March) and dry (September) season campaigns in 2019. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/c46028c6-1d2b-4b40-a174-39ea3fee2499 Stivanello, S. University of Exeter silvio.stivanello@tin.it author Clark, D. Cardiff University clarkd@cardiff.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1090-2361 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 Adu-Bredu, S. Forestry Research Institute of Ghana sabredu@csir-forig.org.gh https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7487-7911 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 Haddad, M. Cardiff University Haddad@cardiff.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4153-6146 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 Hill, T. University of Exeter t.c.hill@exeter.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1740-930X 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 Hill, T. University of Exeter t.c.hill@exeter.ac.uk pointOfContact NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher Cardiff University EMAIL NOT PROVIDED owner University of Exeter EMAIL NOT PROVIDED owner Connarus africanus Wikidata 2012-10-29 creation tropical forest tree resistance (biological) GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3 2019-01-28 creation Ghana GeoNames 2006-01-01 creation Ground Fall of potential 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: Stivanello, S., Clark, D., Adu-Bredu, S., Haddad, M., Hill, T. (2024). Electrical resistance of trees and soil in Ankasa forest, Ghana, 2019. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/c46028c6-1d2b-4b40-a174-39ea3fee2499 textTable 1000 English utf8 biota 2019-03-01 2019-09-30 -2.731 -2.424 5.136 5.443 Comma-separated values (CSV) NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/c46028c6-1d2b-4b40-a174-39ea3fee2499 Download the data Download a copy of this data download https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/c46028c6-1d2b-4b40-a174-39ea3fee2499.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 Tree resistance to ground was measured using a Digital Earth Tester DET2/2 (Megger, AVO Ltd., Dover, England) and adapting the “Fall of Potential” method to trees. Measurements were conducted at 1.40 m and 0.70 m heights above ground level. The differences between these measurements heights were used to calculate the electrical properties of each tree stem. Soil resistance was measured using a Digital Earth Tester DET2/2 (Megger, AVO Ltd., Dover, England) using a Wenner array configuration of spikes with “line traverse method”. Surface soil moisture was measured using a SM150T sensor (Delta-T Devices Ltd, Cambridge, UK) for both dry and wet seasons at 5 cm depth.