e763d84c-8ac2-4be5-8598-b2cf801367ce
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Coastal Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability (CBESS) soil electrical conductivity on salt marsh sites at Morecambe Bay and Essex
2016-05-03
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2016-04-22
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https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/e763d84c-8ac2-4be5-8598-b2cf801367ce
10.5285/e763d84c-8ac2-4be5-8598-b2cf801367ce
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Ford, H., Garbutt, A., Skov, M. (2016). Coastal Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability (CBESS) soil electrical conductivity on salt marsh sites at Morecambe Bay and Essex. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/e763d84c-8ac2-4be5-8598-b2cf801367ce
The dataset comprises the electrical conductivity of a 10 gram soil sample from the top 5 centimetre (cm) of soil taken within each 1metre (m) x 1m quadrat. Sampling was conducted at six salt marsh sites at four spatial scales: 1 m (the minimal sampling unit) nested within a hierarchy of increasing scales of 1-10 m, 10-100 m and 100-1000 m. 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/e763d84c-8ac2-4be5-8598-b2cf801367ce
Dr. Hilary Ford
Bangor University
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Ford, H.
Bangor University
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Garbutt, A.
Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
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Skov, M.
Bangor University
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Bangor University
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If you reuse this data, you should cite: Ford, H., Garbutt, A., Skov, M. (2016). Coastal Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability (CBESS) soil electrical conductivity on salt marsh sites at Morecambe Bay and Essex. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/e763d84c-8ac2-4be5-8598-b2cf801367ce
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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
10 gram soil samples from the top 5 centimetre (cm) of soil were taken randomly within each 1metre (m) x 1m quadrat (fresh mass). Following a 1:2.5 dilution method, 25 millilitres ml of deionised water was added to the fresh mass and shaken on a rack for roughly 30 minutes. A Jenway 4320 combined pH & electrical conductivity meter was used to measure conductivity as a proxy for salinity. 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 metre (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 to 1000 m or site maximum).