Vegetation change at Whim peatbog (2002-2016)
The data consist of observations of cover of plant species in permanent quadrats in a nitrogen deposition experiment on a peat bog. The experiment was located at Whim Moss in central Scotland, between 2002 and 2016. Recording of cover was by visual assessment in 40 x 40 cm quadrats. The experiment was designed to look at the change in vegetation composition with different rates of deposition of nitrogen in different forms (ammonia, ammonium, and nitrate). This work was supported by the Natural Environment Research Council award number NE/R016429/1 as part of the UK-SCAPE programme delivering National Capability. Full details about this dataset can be found at
https://doi.org/10.5285/65ecd65f-e518-4cf5-85bf-7d93e66fdb96
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- File identifier
- 65ecd65f-e518-4cf5-85bf-7d93e66fdb96 XML
- Resource type
- dataset
Online resource
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- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Spatial representation type
- textTable
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- Comma-separated values (CSV)
Projection
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- WGS 84
Classification of data and services
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- Environment
- Biota
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Coupled resource
Coupled resource
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Coupled resource
Coupled resource
Keywords
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ()
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- Environmental Monitoring Facilities
Geographic coverage
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- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2018-11-14
Quality and validity
- Lineage
- Data were collected by recording cover of all species occurring in permanent quadrats. The location of the quadrats was marked with canes. Cover recording was done by subjective visual assessment. Values are expressed as percentages of the ground area of the quadrat covered by that species. Data were recorded on paper in the field, and later transcribed to Excel spreadsheets. The Excel spreadsheets were processed by an R script, which corrected naming errors, and averaged values for the 16 10x10 cm sub-squares to give the 40x40 cm quadrat mean. There are some instance of unreliable data, where implausibly large changes occur from within a few years. This is likely to come from changes in quadrat position, or human error in identifying and recording the species. The data were mainly collected by Lucy Sheppard and Ian Leith, and latterly by Netty van Dijk and co-workers.
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- 1 urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
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Conformity
Conformity
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Conformity
Restrictions on access and use
- Access constraints
- no limitations
- Access constraints
- © UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
- Access constraints
- If you reuse this data, you should cite: Van Dijk, N., Leith, I.D., Sheppard, L.J., Jones, M., Levy, P.E., Leeson, S.R. (2018). Vegetation change at Whim peatbog (2002-2016). NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/65ecd65f-e518-4cf5-85bf-7d93e66fdb96
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- NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
- enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
- Organisation name
- NERC Environmental Information Data Centre
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- Organisation name
- Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
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- Organisation name
- Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
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- Organisation name
- Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
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- Organisation name
- Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
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- Organisation name
- Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
- enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
- Organisation name
- Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
- enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
- Organisation name
- UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
- enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
- Organisation name
- UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
- enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
Responsible organization (s)
Contact for the resource
- Organisation name
- NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
- enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
- Organisation name
- NERC Environmental Information Data Centre
- enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
- Organisation name
- Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
- enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
- Organisation name
- Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
- enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
- Organisation name
- Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
- enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
- Organisation name
- Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
- enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
- Organisation name
- Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
- enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
- Organisation name
- Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
- enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
- Organisation name
- UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
- enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
- Organisation name
- UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
- enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
Metadata information
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- NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
- info@eidc.ac.uk
- Metadata Date
- 2024-03-14T15:45:38
- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Character set
- utf8