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Greenfield, L.M. et al

Nitrous oxide emissions and associated microbial diversity, soil biochemical properties and crop growth and yield from a field trial of winter barley with the addition of microplastics, Abergwyngregyn, UK, 2020-2021

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https://doi.org/10.5285/a5410834-1c38-455b-a850-3fb3434d4bb0
This dataset contains field data on nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions, microbial community composition, crop yield and growth and soil biochemical properties. The field trial consisted of three different treatments of control, conventional microplastic addition and biodegradable microplastic addition where winter barley was grown. The data presented are from field and laboratory measurements. Data was collected by the data authors. The field trial was carried out from September 2020 to July 2021 at Henfaes Field Centre, UK.

Research was funded through NERC Grant NE/V005871/1. Do agricultural microplastics undermine food security and sustainable development in developing countries?
Publication date: 2022-03-02
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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
2020-09-01    to    2021-07-31

Provenance & quality

Data was either measured in situ in the field (N2O flux, soil moisture, rainfall and air temperature) or samples were taken, processed, and analysed in the laboratory (soil pH, electrical conductivity (EC), ammonium, nitrate, microbial community composition and crop yield).

N2O flux data was measured on a mobile gas chromatograph (GC) system and integrated to obtain peak areas on Peak490Win10Canabis programme. The times, peak areas and sample ID were then exported into a .CHR file and imported into Flux.NET.3.3 which calculated N2O flux as an output in Excel which was exported as .csv file for deposit in EIDC. N2O flux was used to calculate cumulative N2O flux using trapezoidal integration in Excel and saved in a separate .csv file for deposit in EIDC.

Soil moisture was measured on Accilmas with data stored as a .csv on a DataSnap that was downloaded and sorted by treatment and saved as a .csv file.
Rainfall and air temperature were downloaded from the weather station as .csv file.
Soil pH and EC were recorded manually into a notebook and input into an Excel spreadsheet and exported as a .csv file.
Soil ammonium and nitrate content was measured using the microplate method using a programme called Gen5. Date was exported into an Excel spreadsheet and absorbance units used to calculate ammonium/nitrate content in milligrams per kilogram using a calibration curve from a set of standards in an Excel spreadsheet. This was exported as a .csv file.
Crop growth data was recorded in the field in a notebook and input into an Excel spreadsheet and exported as a .csv file.
Crop yield was recorded in a notebook and input into an Excel spreadsheet and exported as a .csv file.
Microbial community composition was measured using 16S gene sequencing on an Illumina MiSeq. This generated raw sequencing reads which were processed using Python and filtered using QIIME v1.3.1. creating asv.count.table.csv of counts of each Amplicon Sequence Variants (ASVs) per sample and taxa.table.csv of the taxonomic lineage for each ASVs.

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

Cite this dataset as:
Greenfield, L.M.; Graf, M.; Rengaraj, S.; Bargiela, R.; Williams, G.B. ; Golyshin, P.N.; Chadwick, D.R.; Jones, D.L. (2022). Nitrous oxide emissions and associated microbial diversity, soil biochemical properties and crop growth and yield from a field trial of winter barley with the addition of microplastics, Abergwyngregyn, UK, 2020-2021. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/a5410834-1c38-455b-a850-3fb3434d4bb0

Correspondence/contact details

Greenfield, L.M.
Bangor University
 l.greenfield@bangor.ac.uk

Authors

Greenfield, L.M.
Bangor University
Rengaraj, S.
Bangor University
Bargiela, R.
Bangor University
Williams, G.B.
Bangor University
Golyshin, P.N.
Bangor University
Chadwick, D.R.
Bangor University
Jones, D.L.
Bangor University

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Rights holder
Bangor University
Custodian
NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
 info@eidc.ac.uk
Publisher
NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
 info@eidc.ac.uk

Additional metadata

Topic categories
biota
environment
INSPIRE theme
Environmental Monitoring Facilities
Keywords
Bioplastic , degradable plastic waste , greenhouse gas , nitrogen cycle , nitrogen oxides , plastic , soil , synthetic plastic , yield (agricultural)
Funding
Natural Environment Research Council Award: NE/V005871/1
Last updated
13 February 2024 09:30