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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.
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...
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Socioecological data from smallholder oil palm plantations in Selangor, Peninsular Malaysia, 2022
This dataset includes results from social and environmental surveys of 27 oil palm smallholders and farms in Selangor, Malaysia. Environmental data includes: information on size of plot, crop type and cover, GPS location, vegetation cover, vegetation height, canopy...
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Diatom silica oxygen isotope and n-alkanoic acid hydrogen isotope composition of sediments from Lake Suigetsu, Japan (22,000 to 10,000 cal BP)
This dataset contains information about the stable oxygen isotope composition (δ18O) of bulk diatom silica, and the compound-specific stable hydrogen isotope composition (δ2H) of n-alkanoic acids with different chain lengths. Samples originated from the Lake Suigetsu...
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Impacts of experimental drought and plant trait diversity on floral resources and pollinator visitation
The floral resources provided to pollinators by different sown plant experimental plant communities were assessed under ambient and experimental drought conditions. The dataset includes the abundance and diversity of floral resources in all plant communities and more...
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Traits data for the butterflies and macro-moths of Great Britain and Ireland, 2021
Here, we present a comprehensive traits database for the butterflies and macro-moths of Great Britain and Ireland. The database covers 968 species in 21 families. Ecological traits fall into four main categories: life cycle ecology and phenology, host plant specificity...
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Qualitative data on socio-economic characteristics from ten villages in Gurue, Mozambique
This dataset contains the transcripts of interviews and discussion groups from ten villages in the Gurue district, Zambezia province, Mozambique. The ten villages were selected from a land scarcity gradient running from villages with abundant land to those with intense...
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Spot gauged flows on the lower River Frome, Dorset, April-November 2022
This is a dataset of spot gauged river flows (m3 s-1) at multiple sites along the River Frome, Dorset, UK, conducted during the year 2022. All sites are contained within the stretch of river between the Environment Agency gauging stations located at Dorchester and East...
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Survival rates and transfer potential measurements of Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium colonising polyethylene microplastics in contaminated agricultural soils
This dataset contains mesocosm experimental data quantifying the ability of the bacterium Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium (S. Typhimurium) to persist on microplastic beads in podzol and loamy soil. Persistence was determined through measuring surviving colony...
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Phenotypic and environmental data for Lake Ring, Denmark, Daphnia magna population, 1955-2010
This dataset contains fitness-linked life history traits, environmental data, and protein and gene expression data for Daphnia magna. Life history data were measured in common garden experiments. For each clone of the same genotype across all experiments, size at...
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Wild bee associations with blueberry crops in Argentina, 2020-2021
This data describes pollinator associations with commercial blueberry crops within nine farms in the province of Tucumán (26° 50′ 02′′S, 65° 12′ 55′′ W), Argentina. Using transect based walks at two distances from field boundaries the abundance of insect and hummingbird...
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Land Cover Map 1990 (1km percentage target class, N. Ireland)
This dataset consists of the 1km raster, percentage target class version of the Land Cover Map 1990 (LCM1990) for Northern Ireland. The 1km percentage product provides the percentage cover for each of 21 land cover classes for 1km x 1km pixels. This product contains...
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Terrestrial LiDAR data of Bramcote Hills Park wood, Nottinghamshire, UK in 2023
This dataset contains forest structure measurements for a wooded area where the liana Hendra helix (common ivy) is present. The dataset comprises two overlapping 3D point clouds for a small wooded area covering nearly 18000 m2 of Bramcote Hills Park (Nottinghamshire,...
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Soil biogeochemical data from gradients of windthrow disturbance, Kielder Forest, England, summer 2022
This dataset contains soil biogeochemical data collected along gradients of windthrow disturbance in Kielder Forest, Northumberland, England, in summer 2022 as part of the Monitoring Underground Disturbance (MUD) BioBank. We established ~200 m transects at 10 sites...
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Growing-season eddy covariance measurements of carbon dioxide, energy and water fluxes of a bioenergy maize crop, Yorkshire, UK, 2021
This dataset contains 30-minute observations of land-atmosphere exchange of net ecosystem carbon dioxide exchange and sensible and latent heat measured over the growing season of a maize crop grown for bioenergy in Yorkshire, UK. Turbulent fluxes were measured using...
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Morphometric measurements relating to 177 macro-moth species collected in the UK, 2017
A collection of six morphometric measurements (forewing length, body length, thorax length, thorax width, abdomen length, and abdomen width) relating to the 177 macro-moth species sampled by two Rothamsted Insect Survey (RIS) light traps (Bentley Wood and Porton Down...
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Untargeted metabolomic profiles of paired cultures of four strains of Streptomyces bacteria isolated from a nature reserve in Minnesota, USA
This dataset contains untargeted metabolomic profiles of paired cultures of 4 interacting Streptomyces bacteria. The bacteria were originally isolated from a nature reserve in Minnesota USA. Daily samples of spot cultures grown in adjacent pairs on solid ISP2 medium...
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United Kingdom Butterfly Monitoring Scheme: species trends 2021
This dataset provides linear trends, over varying time periods, for the Collated Indices of individual butterfly species across the UK. The main statistical values derived from a linear regression (slope, standard error, P-value) are presented for the entire time series...
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Bird4pop model for the simulation of foraging, dispersal and population processes of UK passerine birds
Bird4pop is a process-based model, written in R, that simulates the foraging, dispersal and population processes of nidicolous passerines. It accounts for both amount and configuration of habitat resources to predict spatially-explicit relative abundance and foraging...
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Growth and physiological measurements of Leontodon hispidus and Succisa pratensis after ozone exposure and elevated nitrogen input from an ozone field release system, North Wales, 2016-2018
The data presented are growth and physiological measurements from an ozone exposure experiment, during which grassland forbs, Leontodon hispidus and Succisa pratensis were exposed to low, medium and high ozone treatments over three growing seasons, using an outdoor...
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Stakeholder surveys to local farmers and officials in Chinese villages to understand knowledge management dynamics
Data comprise results of social surveys carried out in China during 2016 – 2018 to the local stakeholders (farmers and village to county level officials) to understand their knowledge learning dynamics and preference. Surveys were conducted in the rural villages in...
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