Impact of grassland management on biomass production and nutritional quality, invertebrate communities, and soil health in Berkshire (UK) 2009-2012
The dataset describes the effects of different management techniques on grassland biomass production (dry matter yield), nutritional quality (herbage nitrogen content), pollinator communities (abundance and species richness), predatory beetle communities (abundance, species richness and biomass), and soil health (bulk density, total soil carbon and nitrogen). Data was collected from a site in Berkshire (UK), where a field-scale, randomised block experiment had been implemented to investigate how the establishment of a variety of plant functional groups (grasses, legumes, and other flowering forbs) using different cultivation (minimum tillage and deep ploughing) and management (cutting, grazing and their intensity) techniques, affected the provision of various ecosystem services.
Publication date: 2019-03-29
Where/When
- Study area
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- Temporal extent
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2009-01-01 to 2012-12-31
Provenance & quality
All surveyors and laboratory workers were trained and followed standardised protocols in all cases. Specific forms were used for recording data in the field and in the lab. The data were checked for anomalous entries. Details of the methodologies have been published (see “other useful information regarding this dataset”).
Supplemental information
Woodcock, B.A., Savage, J., Bullock, J.M., Nowakowski, M., Orr, R., Tallowin, J.R.B., & Pywell, R.F. (2014). Enhancing floral resources for pollinators in productive agricultural grasslands. Biological Conservation, 171, 44–51.
Woodcock, B.A., Savage, J., Bullock, J.M., Nowakowski, M., Orr, R., Tallowin, J.R.B., & Pywell, R.F. (2013). Enhancing beetle and spider communities in agricultural grasslands: The roles of seed addition and habitat management. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 167, 79–85.
Correspondence/contact details
Joanna Savage
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Maclean Building, Benson Lane, Crowmarsh Gifford
Wallingford
Oxfordshire
OX10 8BB
UNITED KINGDOM
enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
Wallingford
Oxfordshire
OX10 8BB
UNITED KINGDOM
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
Additional metadata
- Topic categories
- Biota , Environment , Farming , Geoscientific Information
- Keywords
- Agriculture, Berkshire, Biodiversity, Ecosystem services, forbs, grass, grasslands, Land use, legumes, natural pest control, Pollinators, Soil, sustainable intensification
- INSPIRE Theme
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Environmental Monitoring Facilities
Soil - Funding
- Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs Award: BD1466
- Spatial representation type
- Tabular (text)
- Spatial reference system
- WGS 84
- Last updated
- 20 May 2022 10:41