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O'Gorman, E.J.; Robinson, S.I; McLaughlin, Ó.B.; Marteinsdóttir, B. (2017). Invertebrate biomass, vegetation cover, and environmental data from Hengill, Iceland. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre. (Dataset). https://doi.org/10.5285/0f074839-1630-4ccd-aa63-84d0da16b28a
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This dataset is made available under the terms of the Open Government Licence 
Invertebrate biomass, vegetation cover, and environmental data from Hengill, Iceland
This is a dataset of environmental data, percentage vegetation cover, total invertebrate abundance, and mean invertebrate body mass, sampled at 96 soil habitat patches in the Hengill geothermal valley, Iceland, in July 2013. The habitat patches span a temperature gradient of 7-38 degrees C, yet they occur within 2 km of each other and have similar soil moisture, pH, total carbon, and total nitrogen. Effects of soil temperature on the structure and diversity of plant and invertebrate communities using this dataset are presented in Robinson et al. (2018), published in the Journal of Animal Ecology.
Publication date: 2017-12-20
Where/When
- Study area
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- Temporal extent
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2013-07-01 to 2013-07-31
Provenance & quality
Sampling was carried out in July 2013 in the Hengill geothermal valley, Iceland. GPS coordinates and the temperature, moisture, and pH of the soil at each habitat patch were recorded during the field expedition. Dried soil samples were shipped to the Forest Research Centre for Ecosystems, Society, and Biosecurity (Farnham, UK), where total carbon and total nitrogen were quantified. Photographs were taken of plant community quadrats during the expedition and percentage cover of each species was enumerated later. Invertebrate samples collected from pitfall trapping during the expedition were preserved in 70 percent ethanol, shipped to Queen Mary University of London, and later identified under a microscope in the laboratory.
Supplemental information
This dataset is a supplement to:
Robinson, S. I., McLaughlin, Ó. B., Marteinsdóttir, B., & O’Gorman, E. J. (2018). Soil temperature effects on the structure and diversity of plant and invertebrate communities in a natural warming experiment. Journal of Animal Ecology, 87(3), 634–646.
Correspondence/contact details
Authors
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4507-5690
Robinson, S.I
University of Helsinki
McLaughlin, Ó.B.
Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté
Marteinsdóttir, B.
University of Iceland
Other contacts
- Custodian
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NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centreinfo@eidc.ac.uk
- Publisher
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NERC Environmental Information Data Centreinfo@eidc.ac.uk
- Rights Holder
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Imperial College London
Additional metadata
- Topic categories
- Biota , Environment
- Keywords
- Biodiversity, Climate and climate change, Environmental survey, Hengill, Iceland, Soil
- INSPIRE Theme
- Environmental Monitoring Facilities
- Funding
- Natural Environment Research Council Award: NE/L011840/1
- Spatial representation type
- Tabular (text)
- Spatial reference system
- WGS 84
- Last updated
- 25 June 2021 18:38