f9dd7a39-f408-4e11-8819-46afa05457bd 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 OSGB 1936 / British National Grid The germination rates of seeds from Eschscholzia californica plants located within habitats comprising habitats with different floral cover 2017-06-16 publication 2015-06-30 creation https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/f9dd7a39-f408-4e11-8819-46afa05457bd 10.5285/f9dd7a39-f408-4e11-8819-46afa05457bd doi: Evans, T.M., Heard, M.S., Vanbergen, A.J., Cavers, S., Ennos, R. (2017). The germination rates of seeds from Eschscholzia californica plants located within habitats comprising habitats with different floral cover. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/f9dd7a39-f408-4e11-8819-46afa05457bd This dataset details the germination rates of seeds from Eschscholzia californica plants introduced to habitats comprising different floral cover. Data was collected in June 2015 at the Hillesden estate, Buckinghamshire, UK. Experimental arrays were introduced across the study site, Arrays comprised of three E.californica plants separated by 1m and arranged in a triangular formation. A total of sixteen arrays were introduced across four 100ha replicate blocks, each separated by >500m. At the centre of each block, four experimental arrays were placed at 50m intervals along a 150m transect laid symmetrically across the boundary between an established wildflower patch and bare, fallow ground or grazed grassland (two arrays within the florally rich habitat and two arrays within the florally poor habitat). After sixteen days plants were collected in and stored under glasshouse conditions. Upon fruit maturation, 20 seeds from each of the 48 field exposed plants was sown into compost and the number which successfully germinated was counted. The dataset was part of a larger experiment looking at the effect of floral resources on the pollination services to isolated plants. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/f9dd7a39-f408-4e11-8819-46afa05457bd Evans, T. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk pointOfContact NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian NERC Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher Evans, T.M. Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0177-6631 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 Heard, M.S. Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Vanbergen, A.J. Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8320-5535 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 Cavers, S. Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2139-9236 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 Ennos, R. University of Edinburgh rennos@ed.ac.uk author UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk owner notPlanned Environmental Monitoring Facilities theme GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication Eschscholzia californica Wikidata 2012-10-29 creation Hillesden Buckinghamshire GeoNames 2006-01-01 creation Californian poppy otherRestrictions no limitations otherRestrictions This resource is made available under the terms of the Open Government Licence otherRestrictions © UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology otherRestrictions If you reuse this data, you should cite: Evans, T.M., Heard, M.S., Vanbergen, A.J., Cavers, S., Ennos, R. (2017). The germination rates of seeds from Eschscholzia californica plants located within habitats comprising habitats with different floral cover. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/f9dd7a39-f408-4e11-8819-46afa05457bd textTable English utf8 environment 2015-06-01 2015-06-30 -1.03 -0.965 51.936 51.979 Comma-separated values (CSV) NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/f9dd7a39-f408-4e11-8819-46afa05457bd.zip Supporting information Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset information https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/f9dd7a39-f408-4e11-8819-46afa05457bd Download the data Download a copy of this data download 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 All open flowers were removed from the 48 E. californica plants, prior to their placement in pre-marked locations across the landscape. They remained in the field for 16 days to ensure full anthesis of new flowers and to allow for multiple pollination events. After this period, all fruit were tagged to ensure that only fruit development arising from the period of the field experiment were included in analyses. Plants were then collected and stored under controlled glasshouse conditions until fruit maturation. Upon maturation, tagged fruit were collected and 20 seeds from each of the 48 plants were sown into compost and kept under glasshouse conditions (as above). Germination was recorded daily over a 30-day period and any seeds which had not germinated after 90 days were recorded as non-viable. The germination success was expressed as a ratio between the number of seeds which successfully germinated against the number of seeds which failed to germinate in each of the 48 field exposed plants.