Identification

Title

Algal primary production of Welsh upland rivers in response to organic matter addition (2013)

Abstract

These data are algal production values in eight Welsh upland rivers with contrasting land-use, moorland and exotic conifer, in response to riparian deciduous leaf addition. Eight sampling reaches were chosen at two sites, Llyn Brianne (4 reaches) and Plynlimon (4 reaches). The experiment consisted of adding deciduous leaves to half of the reaches whilst the other half were maintained as a control (no addition of deciduous leaves). In order to characterise the algal production of the studied streams, algal biofilm samples were collected from tiles previously placed, during January 2013 (before deciduous leaf addition) and March 2013 (after deciduous leaf addition) in each sampling reach. The main goal of this survey was to examine how aquatic biodiversity and organic matter stocks respond to deciduous leaf addition in moorland and conifer forested rivers. Dr Isabelle Durance was responsible for organising the surveys, Dr Hugh Feeley, Dr Anne-Laure Sauvadet and Marian Pye were in charge of collecting, processing and sorting the samples. The work was carried out under Diversity in Upland Rivers for Ecosystem Service Sustainability (DURESS) project (Grant reference NERC NE/J014818/1). DURESS was a project funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability (BESS) programme. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/f13b0975-6af4-4315-9e4f-63a1cb4bd796

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/f13b0975-6af4-4315-9e4f-63a1cb4bd796

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https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/f13b0975-6af4-4315-9e4f-63a1cb4bd796.zip

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Unique resource identifier

code

https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/f13b0975-6af4-4315-9e4f-63a1cb4bd796

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doi:

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

biota

environment

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Environmental Monitoring Facilities

originating controlled vocabulary

title

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2008-06-01

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-3.785

East bounding longitude

-3.641

North bounding latitude

52.518

South bounding latitude

52.107

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

End position

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2017-03-28

date type

creation

effective date

2013-03-14

Frequency of update

notPlanned

Quality and validity

Lineage

Each stream was divided into an upstream control zone and a downstream experimental zone. Samples of algal biofilm were collected from tiles previously placed on each sampling site. Deciduous leaves were added directly to the stream and by fixing 'Onion bags' of leaves the stream bed and bank. Algal samples were collected two occasions, January (3-16/01/2013), and March (11-14/03/2013) in all the streams in both the upstream reference zones and downstream experimental zones. Six experimental units (algal tiles) were placed randomly in each reach of the experimental sites before and after the manipulation. Chlorophyll a accrual on tiles was used as a proxy measure of algal production and herbivory rates measured over the sampling periods (after Hladyz et al. 2011). Unglazed ceramic tiles (100 millimetres x 100 millimetres) were glued in pairs to house bricks, which were fixed to the benthos with a rebar stake placed through a hole in the brick centre. The vertical edges of one tile on each brick were coated with a layer of petroleum jelly to deter crawling gazers, and the other tile was left as a control, to assess the strength of grazing pressure. Chlorophyll was extracted using acetone, and the concentration subsequently measured spectrophotometrically (after Layer et al. 2010). Data was entered into an Excel spreadsheet and then exported as a comma separated value file for ingestion into the Environmental Information Data Centre.

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

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explanation

Data format

name of format

Comma-separated values (CSV)

version of format

Constraints related to access and use

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Limitations on public access

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Limitations on public access

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Limitations on public access

If you reuse this data, you should cite: Durance, I., Feeley, H.B., Ormerod, S.J., Pye, M.C., Sauvadet, A-L., Gutierrez-Canovas, C., Woodward, G. (2017). Algal primary production of Welsh upland rivers in response to organic matter addition (2013). NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/f13b0975-6af4-4315-9e4f-63a1cb4bd796

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

organisation name

email address

durance@cardiff.ac.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Responsible party

organisation name

email address

durance@cardiff.ac.uk

web address

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4138-3349

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