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Data Publication

Coastal Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability (CBESS) total organic carbon in mudflat and saltmarsh habitats

Wood, C.L. | Hawkins, S.J. | Godbold, J.A. | Solan, M.

NERC Environmental Information Data Centre

(2015)

Descriptions

The dataset details organic carbon content of sediments across 6 intertidal sites in the winter and summer of 2013. The data provide a quantitative measure of the organic carbon present within surface sediments (up to a depth of 2 cm). Three sites were located in Essex, South East England and the other 3 in Morecambe Bay, North West England. Each site consisted of a saltmarsh habitat and adjacent mudflat habitat. 22 sampling quadrats were placed in each habitat covering 4 spatial scales. 3 replicate samples of surface sediment were collected at each quadrat. They were then processed for organic carbon content using the Loss on Ignition method (detailed below) Values are expressed as a percentage of the total sample collected. This data was collected as part of Coastal Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability (CBESS): NE/J015644/1. The project was funded with support from the Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability (BESS) programme. BESS is a six-year programme (2011-2017) funded by the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) as part of the UK's Living with Environmental Change (LWEC) programme.
The location of the sample sites was determined by randomly allocated quadrats. Twenty two 1 x 1 m quadrats were randomly allocated to each mudflat and saltmarsh site using R (R Development Core Team, 2014) to specify four different spatial scales (A = 1 quadrat only, B = 3 quadrats at 1 m to 10 m apart, C = 6 quadrats at 10 m to 100 m apart, D = 12 quadrats at 100 m to 1000 m or site maximum). Mudflats: surface scrapes of sediment were taken. Saltmarsh: sediment was cut from 2cm below the surface. All samples were frozen at minus 20 degrees and then analysed using standard loss on ignition (LOI) technique, full details of which can be found here: http://www.geog.cam.ac.uk/facilities/laboratories/techniques/loi.html

Keywords


Originally assigned keywords
Essex
Morecambe Bay
United Kingdom
BESS
CBESS
spatial scale
organic carbon
season
intertidal zone
benthic ecosystem
sediment
salt marsh
mud flat

Corresponding MSL vocabulary keywords
organic carbon
salt marsh

MSL enriched keywords
measured property
carbon (C)
organic carbon
Modeled geomorphological feature
coastal and oceanic landforms
salt marsh
minerals
chemical elements
carbon
total organic carbon
analysis
whole rock analysis
loss on ignition

MSL enriched sub domains i

geochemistry
analogue modelling of geologic processes

Source

https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/d4e9f0f7-637a-4aa4-b9df-2a4ca5bfaded

Source publisher

NERC Environmental Information Data Centre


DOI

10.5285/d4e9f0f7-637a-4aa4-b9df-2a4ca5bfaded


Creators

Wood, C.L.

University of Southampton

Other:

Hawkins, S.J.

University of Southampton

Other:

Godbold, J.A.

University of Southampton

ORCID:

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5558-8188

Solan, M.

University of Southampton

ORCID:

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9924-5574


Contributors

Solan, M.

ContactPerson

University of Southampton

Other:

University of Southampton

RightsHolder

University of Southampton

NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre

HostingInstitution

NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre


References

https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/d4e9f0f7-637a-4aa4-b9df-2a4ca5bfaded.zip


Citation

Wood, C. L., Hawkins, S. J., Godbold, J. A., & Solan, M. (2015). Coastal Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability (CBESS) total organic carbon in mudflat and saltmarsh habitats. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/D4E9F0F7-637A-4AA4-B9DF-2A4CA5BFADED


Dates

Submitted:

2015-12-31

Created:

2013-08-01

Available:

2018-03-31


Language

en


Funding References

Funder name: Natural Environment Research Council

Funder identifier: https://ror.org/02b5d8509

Funder identifier type: ROR

Award number: NE/J015644/1


Rights

This resource is made available under the terms of the Open Government Licence


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