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Soil metrics and vegetation data from pasture fed livestock farms across Great Britain, 2018

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Environmental Information Data Centre
Updated
30 July 2026
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Summary

This set of data includes records of vegetation species and characteristics, soil quality metrics and aspects of farm management relating to a single field on each sampled farm. Data were collected in 2018, from farms across Great Britain belonging to the Pasture Fed Livestock Association (PFLA). The data were collected by the UK Centre of Ecology & Hydrology, during a project funded by the BBSRC, seeking to evidence the impacts of pasture fed livestock approaches on grassland parameters, in particular, sward composition and associated soil qualities. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/78ca9a01-107b-4f33-8561-9c3e64db7e02

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Source Metadata
XML, HTML
Date added
25 July 2026
Harvest GUID
78ca9a01-107b-4f33-8561-9c3e64db7e02
Extent (Latitude)
60.861° to 49.864°
Extent (Longitude)
-8.648° to 1.768°
Dataset reference date (publication)
2021-02-08
Dataset reference date (creation)
2018-12-21
Frequency of update
notPlanned
Access constraints
If you reuse this data, you should cite: Norton, L.R., Wagner, M., Wood, C.M., Pinder, A., Brentegani, M., Hunt, A., Risser, H., Dodd, B.A. (2021). Soil metrics and vegetation data from pasture fed livestock farms across Great Britain, 2018. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/78ca9a01-107b-4f33-8561-9c3e64db7e02
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ISO 19139 resource type
dataset
Metadata language
eng

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