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GeMS - Scottish Priority Marine Features (PMF)

Layers relate to: the components of Priority Marine Features (PMF), MPA Search features (Black guillemot or Large-scale features of functional significance used to underpin the selection of Nature...

Broadscale mapping of sublittoral habitats in the Sound of Barra: south west of South Uist

This map covers the area in the north of The Sound of Barra, at the south-western end of South Uist.The Sound of Barra has been selected as a possible Special Area of Conservation (pSAC) on the...

Broadscale mapping of sublittoral habitats in the Sound of Barra: north east of Barra

This map covers the area in the south of The Sound of Barra, at the northeastern corner of Barra (from Traigh Mhor to near Loch Obe). The Sound of Barra has been selected as a possible Special Area...

Broadscale mapping of sublittoral habitats in the Sound of Barra: south east of South Uist

This map covers the area in the north of The Sound of Barra, at the south-eastern end of South Uist. The Sound of Barrahas been selected as a possible Special Area of Conservation (pSAC) on the...

Scenarios of future land use change in Mozambique (2014 and 2015)

Data comprise scenarios of how land use can be in the future and how will it affect ecosystem services in rural Mozambique. The scenarios were constructed from information gathered at five...

Soil biodiversity, carbon cycling and crop plant biomass responses to experimental biochar amendment of agricultural soil (Dundee, UK)

These data describe the results of a three year (2011-2013) factorial experiment using plant-soil mesocosms testing the effects of biochar on soil biodiversity and soil carbon fluxes. The...

Onshore borehole collection

The British Geological Survey onshore borehole collection database of core and sample types and depths contains records of over 15 000 onshore boreholes drilled in the UK by BGS, commercial and...

Palaeohydrogeological Data Analysis and Model Testing Database

PADAMOT (Palaeohydrogeological Data Analysis and Model Testing) is a database being built and populated as part of the PADAMOT project which is part of the 5th Framework R&D Programme of the...

Leaf growth, nutrient, and stable isotope responses of seagrass exposed to nutrient enrichment, Laamu Atoll, Maldives, 2022-2023

The data consist of leaf extension rates of seagrass growth as the primary response variable; elemental and isotopic compositions of seagrass above- and below-ground biomass; seagrass morphological...

GlaciStore: full proposal to IODP, UK CCS RC, Call 1 (1 April 2015)

Full proposal for scientific drilling (852-CPP) 'GlaciStore: Understanding Late Cenozoic glaciation and basin processes for the development of secure large-scale offshore CO2 storage (North Sea)',...

Organic pollutants in urban soils of Glasgow, UK

Concentrations of total organic carbon (TOC), total petroleum hydrocarbons, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) were determined in 84 near-surface soils...

Management Units for Cetaceans in UK Waters (January 2015)

This dataset is a collection of shapefiles that set out the boundaries of final agreed Management Units (MUs) for the seven most common cetacean species in UK waters. The boundaries are supported...

Causal diagrams linking rural well-being with forest ecosystem services in Mozambique (2014 and 2015)

Data comprise causal diagrams which show links between aspects that influence the well-being of rural inhabitants (e.g. good quality of food, good family relationships, education, etc) with...

QUEST GSI (Global Scale Impacts of Climate Change): Climate, run-off and aquatic model simulations

QUEST GSI was led by Nigel Arnell (University of Reading) with co-investigators from the Universities of Aberdeen, Leeds, UEA, Edinburgh, Southampton, UCL, London School of Hygiene and Tropical...

QUEST GSI (Global Scale Impacts of Climate Change): Climate, run-off and aquatic model simulations

QUEST GSI was led by Nigel Arnell (University of Reading) with co-investigators from the Universities of Aberdeen, Leeds, UEA, Edinburgh, Southampton, UCL, London School of Hygiene and Tropical...

Cleaned UK rainfall chemistry data (1986-2011)

These data are based on the UK rainfall chemistry data held on the UK-AIR database operated on behalf of Defra (http://uk-air.defra.gov.uk/). A subset of 20 sites was analysed, being those with the...

Coral bleaching and nutrient responses to elevated temperature and nutrient exposure, Laamu Atoll, Maldives, 2022-2024

[This dataset is embargoed until January 4, 2027]. The data consist of coral bleaching data; coral elemental and isotopic data (of coral host tissue and algal symbionts); coral metric data (size...

GlaciStore: Cover sheet to pre-proposal to IODP, UK CCS RC Call 1 (31 March 2014)

Pre-proposal cover sheet for scientific drilling 'GlaciStore: Understanding Late Cenozoic glaciation and basin processes for the development of secure large-scale offshore CO2 storage (North Sea)',...

Biostratigraphy Reports - Onshore And Offshore, 1953-2000.

A series of technical palaeontological and biostratigraphical reports produced in the London, Leeds, Edinburgh and Keyworth offices of BGS between 1953 and March 2000. The reports provide...

RAPID Improving our Ability to Predict Rapid Changes in the El Nino Southern Oscillation Climatic Phenomenon: HADCM3 model output

"Improving our ability to predict rapid changes in the El Nino Southern Oscillation climatic phenomenon" project, which was a Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) RAPID Climate Change...