87114da4-3189-471f-9832-00b3e759232f
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Coastal Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability (CBESS) standing crop biomass on salt marsh sites at Morecambe Bay and Essex
2016-05-03
publication
2016-04-22
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https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/87114da4-3189-471f-9832-00b3e759232f
10.5285/87114da4-3189-471f-9832-00b3e759232f
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Ford, H., Garbutt, A., Skov, M. (2016). Coastal Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability (CBESS) standing crop biomass on salt marsh sites at Morecambe Bay and Essex. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/87114da4-3189-471f-9832-00b3e759232f
The dataset comprises of above ground vegetation cut to ground level and dried to give indication of standing crop biomass in a 50 centimetre (cm) x 25cm area (taken within a 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. All samples were taken during the winter 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/10.5285/87114da4-3189-471f-9832-00b3e759232f
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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NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
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Bangor University
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Habitats and Biotopes
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
2008-06-01
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Morecambe Bay
Essex
GeoNames
2006-01-01
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CBESS (Coastal Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability)
BESS (Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability)
Salt marsh
Grassland
Standing crop
biomass
Vegetation
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no limitations
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This resource is made available under the terms of the Open Government Licence
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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) standing crop biomass on salt marsh sites at Morecambe Bay and Essex. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/87114da4-3189-471f-9832-00b3e759232f
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2013-01-01
2013-08-31
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51.687
54.25
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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
A 50 centimetre (cm) x 25cm area of above ground vegetation was taken randomly within each 1metre (m) x 1m quadrat, cut to ground level, then dried at 60 degrees Celsius for 72 hours to give an indication of standing crop biomass. Results were recorded onto field sheets. These data were transferred into an Excel file. Results were exported as comma separated value files for ingestion into the EIDC.
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 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).