Abundance of plant taxa on Norwood Farm, Somerset during 2007 and 2008
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Evans, D.M.; Pocock, M.J.O.; Brooks, J.; Memmott, J. (2015). Abundance of plant taxa on Norwood Farm, Somerset during 2007 and 2008. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/0c123d4e-186f-48f5-8580-d0696b247287
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https://doi.org/10.5285/0c123d4e-186f-48f5-8580-d0696b247287
Estimates of plant abundance (for leaf area, floral units and seed abundance, mass and energy) obtained from field-based sampling as part of a study of ecological interactions (food webs and plant-pollinator networks) on a single farm (Norwood Farm, Somerset, UK: 51.3128N 2.3206W) during 2007 and 2008. During the study, Norwood Farm was managed as an organic farm at relatively low intensity. The work was was supported by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [grant number BBD0156341].
Publication date: 2015-08-18
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Format
Comma-separated values (CSV)
Spatial information
Study area
Spatial representation type
Tabular (text)
Spatial reference system
OSGB 1936 / British National Grid
Temporal information
Temporal extent
2007-03-01 to 2008-08-31
Provenance & quality
Field surveys were conducted according to established protocols. Records made in the field for plant cover, height and counts of floral units, or samples containing seeds were collected for laboratory sorting and analysis. Data were entered into a purpose-designed database, via bespoke forms to support accuracy of data entry. Manipulations on the raw data (e.g. scaling up from sample size to total habitat area) were conducted in the database and data were checked for consistency of species names and data entry errors throughout the analysis undertaken as a contribution for peer-reviewed papers.
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This dataset is made available under the terms of the Open Government Licence
Cite this dataset as:
Evans, D.M.; Pocock, M.J.O.; Brooks, J.; Memmott, J. (2015). Abundance of plant taxa on Norwood Farm, Somerset during 2007 and 2008. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/0c123d4e-186f-48f5-8580-d0696b247287
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Citations
Sauve, A.M.C., Thébault, E., Pocock, M.J.O., & Fontaine, C. (2015). How plants connect pollination and herbivory networks and their contribution to community stability. Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1890/15-0132.1
Supplemental information
Darren M. Evans, Michael J.O. Pocock, Joanna Brooks, Jane Memmott, Seeds in farmland food-webs: Resource importance, distribution and the impacts of farm management, In Biological Conservation, Volume 144, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2941-2950, ISSN 0006-3207
Michael J.O. Pocock, Darren M. Evans, Jane Memmott, The impact of farm management on species-specific leaf area index (LAI): Farm-scale data and predictive models, In Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, Volume 135, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 279-287, ISSN 0167-8809
EVANS, D. M., MCLEOD, J. J., PASCOE, L. and MEMMOTT, J. (2009), The efficiency of a vacuum device for estimating soil-surface seed abundance on lowland farms. Weed Research, 49: 337-340. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3180.2009.00707.x
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