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Soil respiration, leaf litter decomposition and root morphotyping in the absence and presence of tree roots at two locations in the UK, October-November 2023

The data encompass measurements in soil and litter, including leaf litter decomposition, soil respiration, and root morphology analysis in the absence and presence of tree roots in the UK. Data...

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

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...

Numerical model simulations of channel flow for the South Saskatchewan River, Canada

Datasets consists of the results of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) flow simulations for a section of the South Saskatchewan River, Canada. The aim of these CFD simulations was to investigate...

WATCH forcing data (WFD) - 20th century PSurf (surface pressure) 1901-2001

The WATCH Forcing data is a twentieth century meteorological forcing dataset for land surface and hydrological models. It consists of three/six-hourly states of the weather for global half-degree...

Leaf structural traits and allometry of juvenile trees across temperature treatments in an experimental plantation in the Colombian Andes, 2019-2022

This dataset details the allometry and leaf trait measurements in three common gardens of fifteen juvenile tree species from the Colombian Andes planted along a thermosequence (14, 22 and 26 deg C)...

Meteorology, soil physics, and eddy covariance measurements of carbon dioxide, energy and water exchange from a distributed network of sites across England and Wales, 2023-2024

This dataset contains time series observations of land surface-atmosphere exchanges of sensible heat (H) and latent heat fluxes (LE), together with supporting meteorological and soil physics data...

Plant composition in coastal foredunes of Florida and Georgia undergoing recovery from hurricane Irma, 2017

This dataset presents plant percentage cover by species, average plant cover and species richness for sites along the foredune area of sites distributed between Cape Canaveral (Florida) and Tybee...

Benthic biofilm chlorophyll a content and biomass data for 3 intensively studied Wessex chalkstream sites, England, UK

Chlorophyll-a content and ash-free dry mass of quantitative samples of the biofilm on benthic substrate from three chalkstream sites in the Wessex chalk area (Nine Mile River, River Till and River...

Fine root arbuscular mycorrhizal colonisation in fertilised plots in Central Amazon, 2018

The data consists of total arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi colonisation in fine roots in old growth forests in Central Amazon. Fine roots younger than three months were sampled using the ingrowth core...

Enteric virus concentrations and chemical properties of wastewater, water, sediment and shellfish samples collected along the Conwy River and estuary, North Wales (2016-2017)

This dataset contains pH, turbidity, conductivity and viral concentration information in river and estuarine water, wastewater, sediment and mussel samples collected in the Conwy River and estuary....

Stable isotope and community abundance data from freshwater macroinvertebrates collected during a mesocosm-based drought experiment

The dataset contains stable isotope concentration (d13C and d15N) and community abundance data for a range of aquatic macroinvertebrate taxa measured during a mesocosm drought experiment. The...

Impacts of experimental drought and plant trait diversity on floral resources and pollinator visitation

The floral resources provided to pollinators by different sown plant experimental plant communities were assessed under ambient and experimental drought conditions. The dataset includes the...

Habitat risk score of mangrove areas in the Vietnamese Mekong Delta calculated using the InVEST model, 2017

[This dataset is embargoed until January 4, 2027]. This dataset provides a calculation of the habitat risk index of mangrove forest in Soc Trang, Ca Mau, Kien Giang, in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam,...

1982 Ayres, PA. Plankton blooms of economic importance to fisheries in UK waters 1968-1982

Three phytoplankton species blooms which have been reported harmful to fisheries in UK waters are discussed: (1) The armoured dinoflagellate Gonyaulax tamarensis has caused ...

Coquet to St Marys Marine Conservation Zone (MCZ) Survey Data

Three surveys of Coquet to St Marys rMCZ site have been completed to date (Apr 2018): Cruise: CQSM_2ENC30714 Date: 1st July - 6th September 2014 Data collected: MB Bathymetry Coverage...

Surface and Meteorological Data at Medano Creek, Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado, USA on 15th April 2019 (NERC grant NE/R010196/1)

Wind and surface morphological data collected at Medano Creek on the 15th April 2019 to investigate protodune initiation. Surface morphological data: This is terrestrial laser scanned (TLS) data...

Archive photograph collections

The BGS archive photograph collections consists of three sub-collections, The British Association for the Advancement of Science (BAAS) photograph collection, Keyworth Library archive collection...

Seawater temperature records for the UK Shelf - 02 - Cefas Fishing Survey System

This dataset has been extracted as part of an exercise to assemble "all" Cefas Temperature Data and publish it in a Data paper. It is one of 17 Cefas data sources assembled. The Fishing Survey...

Geochemical characterisation of San Andreas Fault damage zone rock at Lake Hughes and Littlerock localities

Geochemical and petrophysical data acquired on intact and damage zone rock samples for two localities along the San Andreas Fault, Mojave section. Data used in the publication entitled "Chemically...

Groundwater Vulnerability Scotland version 2

The Groundwater Vulnerability Scotland dataset forms part of the BGS Hydrogeological Maps of Scotland data product. This product is comprised of three datasets: Bedrock Aquifer Productivity...