Identification

Title

Coastal Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability (CBESS) nutrient exchange fluxes between sediment cores and overlying site water

Abstract

Nutrient exchange fluxes in the dark and light, calculated in moles per hour per square metre, between sediment cores and overlying site water in salt marsh and intertidal mudflat locations in Essex and Morecombe Bay, Lancashire in January and August 2013. Net fluxes of nitrate, nitrate, ammonium, oxygen and dissolved organic carbon were measured in temperature controlled water baths over three hour periods. 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/10.5285/740348c5-796b-4a28-bc7f-b0eaf1ee3452

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/740348c5-796b-4a28-bc7f-b0eaf1ee3452

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description: Download a copy of this data

function: download

https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/740348c5-796b-4a28-bc7f-b0eaf1ee3452.zip

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description: Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset

function: information

Unique resource identifier

code

https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/740348c5-796b-4a28-bc7f-b0eaf1ee3452

codeSpace

doi:

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

oceans

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Habitats and Biotopes

originating controlled vocabulary

title

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2008-06-01

Keyword set

keyword value

originating controlled vocabulary

title

GeoNames

reference date

date type

creation

effective date

2006-01-01

Keyword set

keyword value

BESS

CBESS

nutrient fluxes

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-3

East bounding longitude

-2.75

North bounding latitude

54.25

South bounding latitude

54.15

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

2013-01-01

End position

2013-08-31

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2016-05-16

date type

creation

effective date

2013-08-31

Frequency of update

notPlanned

Quality and validity

Lineage

One sediment core was taken from each of the twelve quadrats using 8cm diameter plastic cores at six sites, three in Essex: Abbotts Hall, Fingringhoe Wick, Tillingham Marshes; three in Morecambe Bay: Cartmel Sands, Warton Sands, West Plain. Sampling took place in January and August 2013. Sediment cores and three water control cores (pipes containing site water for each location but no sediment) were submerged in tanks of locally collected sea water under daylight simulating bulbs. Light levels and temperatures differed between summer and winter to take into account seasonal variation. Cores were incubated in both the light and the dark to measure fluxes under both conditions. Changes in water column concentrations over 2 to 4 hour periods were taken to calculate fluxes of Oxygen, Non purgable organic carbon (NPOC), Nitrate, NOx, Ammonia, Nitrate, Phosphate and Silicate measured by submerging sediment cores in seawater and measuring concentrations of the chemicals in the overlying water.

Conformity

Conformity report

specification

title

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

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-12-08

degree

explanation

Data format

name of format

Comma-separated values (CSV)

version of format

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

If you reuse this data, you should cite: Underwood, G.J.C., Cotton A., McGenity, T.J., Dumbrell A. J. (2016). Coastal Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability (CBESS) nutrient exchange fluxes between sediment cores and overlying site water. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/740348c5-796b-4a28-bc7f-b0eaf1ee3452

owner

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

Environmental Information Data Centre

full postal address

Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg

Lancaster

LA1 4AP

email address

info@eidc.ac.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2022-05-20T10:39:38

Metadata language

eng