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Invertebrate biomass, vegetation cover, and environmental data from Hengill, Iceland

This is a dataset of environmental data, percentage vegetation cover, total invertebrate abundance, and mean invertebrate body mass, sampled at 96 soil habitat patches in the Hengill geothermal valley, Iceland, in July 2013. The habitat patches span a temperature gradient of 7-38 degrees C, yet they occur within 2 km of each other and have similar soil moisture, pH, total carbon, and total nitrogen. Effects of soil temperature on the structure and diversity of plant and invertebrate communities using this dataset are presented in Robinson et al. (2018), published in the Journal of Animal Ecology. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/0f074839-1630-4ccd-aa63-84d0da16b28a

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Date (Publication)
2017-12-20
Date (Creation)
2017-12-20
Identifier
https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/0f074839-1630-4ccd-aa63-84d0da16b28a
Identifier
doi: / 10.5285/0f074839-1630-4ccd-aa63-84d0da16b28a
Other citation details
O'Gorman, E.J., Robinson, S.I., McLaughlin, Ó.B., Marteinsdóttir, B. (2017). Invertebrate biomass, vegetation cover, and environmental data from Hengill, Iceland. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/0f074839-1630-4ccd-aa63-84d0da16b28a
Author
  Imperial College London - O'Gorman, E.J.
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4507-5690
Author
  University of Helsinki - Robinson, S.I.
Author
  Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté - McLaughlin, Ó.B.
Author
  University of Iceland - Marteinsdóttir, B.
Point of contact
  Imperial College London - O'Gorman, E.J.
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4507-5690
Publisher
  NERC Environmental Information Data Centre
Custodian
  NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
Owner
  Imperial College London
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • Environmental Monitoring Facilities
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This resource is made available under the terms of the Open Government Licence
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© Imperial College
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If you reuse this data, you should cite: O'Gorman, E.J., Robinson, S.I., McLaughlin, Ó.B., Marteinsdóttir, B. (2017). Invertebrate biomass, vegetation cover, and environmental data from Hengill, Iceland. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/0f074839-1630-4ccd-aa63-84d0da16b28a
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Metadata language
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Topic category
  • Biota
  • Environment
Begin date
2013-07-01
End date
2013-07-31
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WGS 84
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Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Statement
Sampling was carried out in July 2013 in the Hengill geothermal valley, Iceland. GPS coordinates and the temperature, moisture, and pH of the soil at each habitat patch were recorded during the field expedition. Dried soil samples were shipped to the Forest Research Centre for Ecosystems, Society, and Biosecurity (Farnham, UK), where total carbon and total nitrogen were quantified. Photographs were taken of plant community quadrats during the expedition and percentage cover of each species was enumerated later. Invertebrate samples collected from pitfall trapping during the expedition were preserved in 70 percent ethanol, shipped to Queen Mary University of London, and later identified under a microscope in the laboratory.
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Date stamp
2025-11-05T08:33:09
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version
2.3
Point of contact
  NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg , Lancaster , LA1 4AP , UK
https://eidc.ac.uk/
 
 

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