Part of UKCEH UKCEH logo
UKCEH website
EIDC
Prendergast-Miller, M.T.; Hodson, M. E.

Soil moisture, temperature and bulk density and earthworm abundance and biomass along transects from hedges into arable fields, pasture fields, ley strips established in arable fields and arable strips established in pasture fields at a farm in West Yorkshire.

https://doi.org/10.5285/8ac670c7-17d8-433f-847c-170eeeb3ee47 Cite this dataset
Data are presented on earthworm abundance with distance from hedgerows was recorded for arable fields and pasture leys at Spens farm, the University of Leeds experiment farms, Yorkshire. Sampling was carried out annual from April 2015 to April 2017 with additional sampling in December 2015, and July and October 2016. Pits were excavated and soil hand sorted for earthworms. Mustard solution was then poured into the pit and any emerging earthworms collected. All earthworms were preserved in ethanol for identification using the Sims and Gerard Field studies key. At each pit the following measurements were also taken: soil moisture, soil temperature, soil bulk density. The samples were taken to determine the influence of leys on soil quality by Miranda Prendergast-Miller and colleagues as part of the SoilBioHedge project (Grant Reference NE/M017095/1) funded by the NERC Soil Security Programme. (Grant Reference NE/M017044/1).
Publication date: 2019-10-03

Format

Comma-separated values (CSV)

Spatial information

Study area
Spatial representation type
Tabular (text)
Spatial reference system
GB place names

Temporal information

Temporal extent
2016-05-12    to    2016-05-26

Provenance & quality

Soil pits (18 x 18 x 15 cm) were excavated along transects and the soil hand sorted for earthworms. Mustard solution was then poured into the pit and any emerging earthworms collected. All earthworms were preserved in ethanol for identification using the Sims and Gerard Field studies key. At each pit the following measurements were also taken: three soil moisture readings in millivolts (mV) were taken at both 5 and 10 cm depth using a ML3 ThetaProbe Soil Moisture Sensor, (Delta-T Devices); single soil temperature measurements at 5 and 10 cm depth using a Checktemp®1 probe (Hanna Instruments); soil bulk density samples were taken at 5 and 15 cm soil depth using steel bulk density rings (118 cm3), soil density was calculated on an oven dry basis. The data were entered into Excel spreadsheets and exported as comma separated value files (csv) for ingestion into the Environmental Information Data Centre.

Correspondence/contact details

Professor Mark Hodson
University of York
Heslington
York
YO10 5NG
UK
 mark.hodson@york.ac.uk

Authors

Prendergast-Miller, M.T.
University of York
ORCID iD icon https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3219-6250
Hodson, M. E.
University of York
ORCID iD icon https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8166-1526

Other contacts

Rights holder
University of York
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
INSPIRE theme
Environmental Monitoring Facilities
Keywords
Biodiversity , earthworm , soil , Soil
Funding
Natural Environment Research Council Award: NE/M017095/1
Last updated
08 February 2024 17:39
359 * views

More information about these numbers

View numbers valid from 01 June 2023 (information prior to this was not collected)

Get the data

THIS DATASET HAS BEEN SUPERSEDED The latest version is Soil moisture, temperature and bulk density and earthworm abundance and biomass along transects from hedges into arable fields, pasture fields, ley strips established in arable fields and arable strips established in pasture fields at a farm in West Yorkshire, England (2015-2017)

Another author needed to be added to the data resource.

If you need access to this archived version, please contact the EIDC

Supporting documentation

CITE AS: Prendergast-Miller, M.T.; Hodson, M. E. (2019). Soil moisture, temperature and bulk density and earthworm abundance and biomass along transects from hedges into arable fields, pasture fields, ley strips established in arable fields and arable strips established in pasture fields at a farm in West Yorkshire.. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/8ac670c7-17d8-433f-847c-170eeeb3ee47

© University of York