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This was undertaken at replicated points along a spatial sampling grid established on each field as well as in the field margins.  Sampling was undertaken from 2018-2021.  \n\nNB: This dataset is currently being generated and is expected to become available in Spring 2023.\n\nData acquisition was funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) under research programme NE/N018125/1 ASSIST – Achieving Sustainable Agricultural Systems www.assist.ceh.ac.uk. 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Soil carbon concentration was derived from loss on ignition determined by combustion of 10g dry soil at 375 degrees C for 16 hours multiplied by 0.55, bulk density was determined as the dry weight of soil (dried at 105 degrees C) per volume of soil. \n\nFurther details are provided in http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/5201/1/CS_UK_2007_TR3%5B1%5D.pdf. Habitat and crop type were recorded as part of Countryside Survey vegetation recording. Countryside Survey 2007 data can be accessed at https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/documents/28eb9005-7154-4207-b086-e3bdcd61de4a. \n\nData acquisition was funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) under research programme NE/N018125/1 ASSIST – Achieving Sustainable Agricultural Systems www.assist.ceh.ac.uk. ASSIST is an initiative jointly supported by NERC and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC). 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On these fields we established three system level treatments of: 1) control with typical conventional arable agricultural management; 2) Enhancement of biodiversity using targeted wild flower sown field margins and the use of cover crops sown before spring crops to support soil health; 3) Enhancement of biodiversity using targeted wild flower sown field margins, sown in-field strips, the application of organic matter (manure or green composted waste) and the use of cover crops sown before spring crops.  All sites were allowed to have their typical rotations and farm management, but these were kept consistent for the three fields within a site.  Management was conventional and would involve the use of agro-chemicals.  This data set reports transect walks used to assess insect pollinator community abundance and species richness undertaken in the field margins and in-field strips.  Sampling was undertaken from 2018-2021.  An additional data set also describes the polliantor communities found within oilseed rape crops sampled in 2020 at replicated points along a spatial sampling grid within these crop fields.  \n\nNB: This dataset is currently being generated and is expected to become available in Spring 2023.\n\nData acquisition was funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) under research programme NE/N018125/1 ASSIST – Achieving Sustainable Agricultural Systems www.assist.ceh.ac.uk. 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This was undertaken at replicated points along a spatial sampling grid established on each field as well as in the field margins and infield strips.  Sampling was undertaken from 2018-2021.  \n\nNB: This dataset is currently being generated and is expected to become available in Spring 2023.\n\nData acquisition was funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) under research programme NE/N018125/1 ASSIST – Achieving Sustainable Agricultural Systems www.assist.ceh.ac.uk. 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This data set reports chemical analysis (including soil carbon, nitrogen and other common soil nutrients of agronomic importance) and bulk density estimates of soil samples taken from a replicated points along a spatial sampling grid established on each field.  Sampling was undertaken in the establishment year (either 2017 or 2018) and again at the end of the experiment (2021).  \n\nNB: This dataset is currently being generated and is expected to become available in Spring 2023.\n\nData acquisition was funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) under research programme NE/N018125/1 ASSIST – Achieving Sustainable Agricultural Systems www.assist.ceh.ac.uk. 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On these fields we established three system level treatments of: 1) control with typical conventional arable agricultural management; 2) Enhancement of biodiversity using targeted wild flower sown field margins and the use of cover crops sown before spring crops to support soil health; 3) Enhancement of biodiversity using targeted wild flower sown field margins, sown in-field strips, the application of organic matter (manure or green composted waste) and the use of cover crops sown before spring crops.  All sites were allowed to have their typical rotations and farm management, but these were kept consistent for the three fields within a site.  Management was conventional and would involve the use of agro-chemicals.  This data set reports yield of sellable crop assessments from 0.5 x 0.5 m quadrates undertaken at replicated points along a spatial sampling grid established on each field.  In each quadrat the crop was removed and the edible component (e.g. seeds, tubers etc) was weighed.   Sampling was undertaken from 2018-2021.  \n\nNB: This dataset is currently being generated and is expected to become available in Spring 2023.\n\nData acquisition was funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) under research programme NE/N018125/1 ASSIST – Achieving Sustainable Agricultural Systems www.assist.ceh.ac.uk. 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MethodsX, 8, 101303. 7, pp. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mex.2021.101303) – for 2018 to 2020 but is being worked on for publication purposes. For publication sequence data will need to be made publically available, so will be uploaded to GenBank (Benson DA, Cavanaugh M, Clark K, Karsch-Mizrachi I, Lipman DJ, Ostell J, Sayers EW. GenBank. Nucleic Acids Res. 2013 Jan;41(Database issue):D36-42. doi: 10.1093/nar/gks1195. Epub 2012 Nov 27. PMID: 23193287; PMCID: PMC3531190).  \n\nIndividual participants have already had their personal data provided to them (for 2018 and 2019; 2020 will follow shortly) via the NHMS website (https://honey-monitoring.ac.uk/). These are not raw data, counts or sequence FASTA files. We provide the relative abundance of the top plant taxa found within their honey samples as well as a complete list of taxa found. Individual data will not not publicly available due to participant confidentiality.\n\nNB: This dataset is currently being generated and is expected to become available in April 2022\n\nData acquisition was funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) under research programme NE/N018125/1 ASSIST – Achieving Sustainable Agricultural Systems www.assist.ceh.ac.uk. 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On these fields we established three system level treatments of: 1) control with typical conventional arable agricultural management; 2) Enhancement of biodiversity using targeted wild flower sown field margins and the use of cover crops sown before spring crops to support soil health; 3) Enhancement of biodiversity using targeted wild flower sown field margins, sown in-field strips, the application of organic matter (manure or green composted waste) and the use of cover crops sown before spring crops.  All sites were allowed to have their typical rotations and farm management, but these were kept consistent for the three fields within a site.  Management was conventional and would involve the use of agro-chemicals.  This data set reports gastropod surveys undertaken using baited bran traps within spring barley fields.  This was undertaken at replicated points along a spatial sampling grid established on each field.  Sampling was undertaken from 2018-2021.  \n\nNB: This dataset is currently being generated and is expected to become available in Spring 2023.\n\nData acquisition was funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) under research programme NE/N018125/1 ASSIST – Achieving Sustainable Agricultural Systems www.assist.ceh.ac.uk. 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On these fields we established three system level treatments of: 1) control with typical conventional arable agricultural management; 2) Enhancement of biodiversity using targeted wild flower sown field margins and the use of cover crops sown before spring crops to support soil health; 3) Enhancement of biodiversity using targeted wild flower sown field margins, sown in-field strips, the application of organic matter (manure or green composted waste) and the use of cover crops sown before spring crops.  All sites were allowed to have their typical rotations and farm management, but these were kept consistent for the three fields within a site.  Management was conventional and would involve the use of agro-chemicals.  This data set reports the abundances of artificial aphid colonies (Sitobion avenae) established on winter wheat plants at replicated points along a spatial sampling grid established on each field.  We monitor how the aphid colonies change in size in response to the naturally occurring communities of predators found in each field.  Sampling was undertaken from 2018-2021.  \n\nNB: This dataset is currently being generated and is expected to become available in Spring 2023.\n\nData acquisition was funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) under research programme NE/N018125/1 ASSIST – Achieving Sustainable Agricultural Systems www.assist.ceh.ac.uk. 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