NFI Soil Chemistry

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17 December 2025
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Summary

Soil chemistry data of soil samples collected within National Forest Inventory (NFI) woodland plots across England during the 2023/24 survey period. The dataset provides quantitative information on a range of soil chemical properties and nutrients detected in each sample. For more information on reported metrics see Advice Sheet 41: Classification of Soil Analysis results to Indices and Advice Sheet 45: Soil Carbon Check Service on the technical help pages of NRM (NRM - Cawood). Data are georeferenced using a delocalised grid. The coordinates for the centroid of the polygon and also the total area of the polygon are included in the dataset. Further information about the delocalisation process is provided in the dataset evidence pack (Sampling Framework). This dataset forms part of the Soil Biodiversity and Chemistry Monitoring Project within the National Forest Inventory framework. The 'NFI Soil Chemistry’ is a project funded by the UK Government through Defra’s Natural Capital and Ecosystem Assessment programme (NCEA). Users should ensure they have read the supporting documentation before viewing or making use of the data. This includes the 'NCEA Analysis Ready Data Limitations Statement' and dataset specific limitations/caveats outlined in the Sampling Framework report (see Section 18). Attribution statement: © Forestry Commission copyright and/or database right 2025. Contains data generated by NatureMetrics. All rights reserved.

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NFI methods for NCEA surveys N/A 17 December 2025 Not available
NCEA_ARD_Limitations_2025_12_05 N/A 17 December 2025 Not available
Forestry Commission Open Data N/A 17 December 2025 Not available
eDNA Soil Chemistry Evidence Pack 2023-24.zip ZIP 17 December 2025 Not available
eDNA Soil Chemistry 2023-24.zip ZIP 17 December 2025 Not available

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Added to data.gov.uk
2025-12-17
Access contraints
There are no public access constraints to this data. Use of this data is subject to the licence identified.
Harvest GUID
d79ff30d-423a-4859-a6f6-cc73af291059
Extent
Latitude: 55.8111151497005° to °
Longitude: -6.41866722959945° to 1.76370560966352°
Spatial reference system
http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/27700
Dataset reference date
2024-03-01 (creation)
2025-12-17 (publication)
2025-12-17 (revision)
Frequency of update
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Forestry Commission (pointOfContact)
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Metadata language
eng
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