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O'Gorman, E.J.; Robinson, S.I; McLaughlin, Ó.B.; Marteinsdóttir, B.

Invertebrate biomass, vegetation cover, and environmental data from Hengill, Iceland

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https://doi.org/10.5285/0f074839-1630-4ccd-aa63-84d0da16b28a
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
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Format

Comma-separated values (CSV)

Spatial information

Study area
Spatial representation type
Tabular (text)
Spatial reference system
WGS 84

Temporal information

Temporal extent
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.

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

Cite this dataset as:
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. https://doi.org/10.5285/0f074839-1630-4ccd-aa63-84d0da16b28a

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Citations

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. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.12798

Correspondence/contact details

O'Gorman, E.J.
Imperial College London
 e.ogorman@imperial.ac.uk

Authors

O'Gorman, E.J.
Imperial College London
Robinson, S.I
University of Helsinki
McLaughlin, Ó.B.
Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté
Marteinsdóttir, B.
University of Iceland

Other contacts

Rights holder
Imperial College London
Custodian
NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
 info@eidc.ac.uk
Publisher
NERC Environmental Information Data Centre
 info@eidc.ac.uk

Additional metadata

Topic categories
biota
environment
INSPIRE theme
Environmental Monitoring Facilities
Keywords
Biodiversity , Climate and climate change , Environmental survey , Hengill , Iceland , Soil
Funding
Natural Environment Research Council Award: NE/L011840/1
Last updated
04 July 2024 11:47