Topsoil meso-fauna data from the Glastir Monitoring and Evaluation Programme, Wales 2013-2014

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This data set includes counts of soil meso-fauna collected from topsoil within a wide range of land use types across Wales, collected as part of the Glastir Monitoring and Evaluation Programme (GMEP). Meso-fauna include collembola (springtails) and acari (mites).

The monitoring programme was set up by the Welsh Government in 2013 to monitor the effects of the Glastir agri-environment scheme on the environment and ran from 2013 to 2016. The field survey element was based on a stratified random sampling design of 300 x 1km square sites across Wales, and was managed by the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology.

Publication date: 2019-11-18

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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

2013-04-01 to 2014-12-01

Provenance & quality

Within each of 300 x 1km sample squares, a set of soil samples are taken from five pre-determined randomly dispersed locations (where possible). The soil sample analysed for soil fauna is taken using a white plastic core (‘F-core’), 8cm long, from a location co-incident with vegetation surveys.

After collection, the soil cores were posted as soon as possible to laboratories at the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Lancaster, for faunal extraction.

To ensure confidentiality of the data with respect to land owners and managers, the locations of 1km squares and survey sites were converted to the centres of the containing 10km Ordnance Survey grid squares.

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

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Keith, A.M.; Astbury, S.; Dodd, B.A.; Emmett, B.A.; Fitton, A.; Garbutt, A.; George, P.; Marshall, R.; Robinson, D.A.; Williams, B.; Wood, C.M. (2019). Topsoil meso-fauna data from the Glastir Monitoring and Evaluation Programme, Wales 2013-2014. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/1c5cf317-2f03-4fef-b060-9eccbb4d9c21

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For the avoidance of doubt, if the publication of the Licensed Data is not within Wales, the Welsh form of the acknowledgement wording is not required.

This dataset is included in the following collections

Glastir Monitoring and Evaluation Programme, Wales, 2013-2016

Citations

Robinson, D.A., Thomas, A., Reinsch, S., Lebron, I., Feeney, C. J., Maskell, L.C., Wood, C.M., Seaton, F.M., Emmett, B.A., & Cosby, B.J. (2022). Analytical modelling of soil porosity and bulk density across the soil organic matter and land-use continuum. In Scientific Reports (Vol. 12, Issue 1). https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-4155-2021

Supplemental information

Glastir Monitoring and Evaluation Programme (GMEP) website

Website for Glastir Monitoring and Evaluation Programme

ERAMMP website

Website for the Welsh Environment and Rural Affairs Monitoring Programme (follow up project to GMEP)

Countryside Survey website

Website for the related national survey, Countryside Survey

Correspondence/contact details

Keith, A.

UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg
Lancaster
Lancashire
LA1 4AP
UNITED KINGDOM

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