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Impact of grassland management on biomass production and nutritional quality, invertebrate communities, and soil health in Berkshire (UK) 2009-2012

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Environmental Information Data Centre
Updated
18 September 2026
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Summary

The dataset describes the effects of different management techniques on grassland biomass production (dry matter yield), nutritional quality (herbage nitrogen content), pollinator communities (abundance and species richness), predatory beetle communities (abundance, species richness and biomass), and soil health (bulk density, total soil carbon and nitrogen). Data was collected from a site in Berkshire (UK), where a field-scale, randomised block experiment had been implemented to investigate how the establishment of a variety of plant functional groups (grasses, legumes, and other flowering forbs) using different cultivation (minimum tillage and deep ploughing) and management (cutting, grazing and their intensity) techniques, affected the provision of various ecosystem services. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/984b1001-82f1-4ba0-aa1e-412f85d9d24f

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Source Metadata
XML, HTML
Date added
15 September 2026
Harvest GUID
984b1001-82f1-4ba0-aa1e-412f85d9d24f
Extent (Latitude)
51.453° to 51.45°
Extent (Longitude)
-0.703° to -0.698°
Dataset reference date (publication)
2019-03-29
Frequency of update
notPlanned
Access constraints
© Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Responsible party
(author, pointOfContact, publisher, custodian); Wildlife Farming Company (author)
ISO 19139 resource type
dataset
Metadata language
eng

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