Soil bacterial cell counts and moisture content from a water stress experiment [NERC Soil Biodiversity Programme]

These data comprise culturable cell counts in different media from soil microbial analysis within a microcosm experiment investigating moisture perturbations on microbes, set up at the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Oxford. The experiment used soil turves from outside the main experimental plots at Sourhope, Scotland, collected in July 2001. Soil moisture data are also included. Data were collected as part of the NERC Soil Biodiversity Thematic Programme, established in 1999 and centred upon the intensive study of a large field experiment located at the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute (now the James Hutton Institute)'s farm at Sourhope in the Scottish Borders. During this time, the site was monitored to assess changes in aboveground biomass production (productivity), species composition and relative abundance (diversity). Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/999b9188-1784-497a-bdce-8fdfbd03e15b

Date (Publication): 2018-01-30

Date (Creation): 2001-11-30

Identifier: https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/999b9188-1784-497a-bdce-8fdfbd03e15b

Identifier: doi: / 10.5285/999b9188-1784-497a-bdce-8fdfbd03e15b

Other citation details: Griffiths, R.I., Whiteley, A.S., O'Donnell, A.G., Bailey, M.J., Mayoux, D., Burt-Smith, G. (2018). Soil bacterial cell counts and moisture content from a water stress experiment [NERC Soil Biodiversity Programme]. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/999b9188-1784-497a-bdce-8fdfbd03e15b

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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Griffiths, R.

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Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Griffiths, R.I.

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Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Whiteley, A.S.

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Newcastle University - O'Donnell, A.G.

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Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Bailey, M.J.

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Macaulay Land Use Research Institute - Mayoux, D.

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Macaulay Land Use Research Institute - Burt-Smith, G.

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NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre

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Other constraints: If you reuse this data, you should cite: Griffiths, R.I., Whiteley, A.S., O'Donnell, A.G., Bailey, M.J., Mayoux, D., Burt-Smith, G. (2018). Soil bacterial cell counts and moisture content from a water stress experiment [NERC Soil Biodiversity Programme]. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/999b9188-1784-497a-bdce-8fdfbd03e15b

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Begin date: 1999-04-01

End date: 2004-03-31

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Statement: Data were collected as part of the NERC Soil Biodiversity Thematic Programme, which was established in 1999 and was centred upon the intensive study of a large field experiment located at the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute (MLURI) (now the James Hutton Institute)'s farm at Sourhope in the Scottish Borders (Grid reference: NT8545019630). Data were collected by scientists employed by Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and MLURI, and were managed by the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology.

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