Survey of bracken biomass, soil chemistry and other environmental factors in Snowdonia and the Lake District in 2014 [LTLS]
Rowe, E.C., Toberman, H., Adams, J.L., Lawlor, A.J., Thacker, S.A., Patel, M., Tipping, E. (2016). Survey of bracken biomass, soil chemistry and other environmental factors in Snowdonia and the Lake District in 2014 [LTLS]. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre. (Dataset). https://doi.org/10.5285/5b89d8f3-86f0-431c-844f-eda5ddae9042
Data comprise bracken biomass, soil and bracken chemistry (for example mass, bulk density, pH, carbon, nitrogen and the concentration of a range of other elements) precipitation, percentage ground cover of plant species and site information. Samples were collected between 21st July and 6th August 2014 at 49 plots in the English lake district and Snowdonia in Wales. Plots were located in stands with minimum 80% bracken cover and which had not been trampled by grazing animals. The study was funded by the UK Natural Environment Research Council under the Macronutrient Cycling Research Programme, as part of the Long-Term, Large-Scale (LTLS) project (Grant no. NE/J011533/1), and by the University of Liverpool (Grant no. NE/J011630/1).
NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
Rowe, E. C., Toberman, H., Adams, J. L., Lawlor, A. J., Thacker, S. A., Patel, M., & Tipping, E. (2016). Productivity in a dominant herbaceous species is largely unrelated to soil macronutrient stocks. Science of The Total Environment, 572, 1636–1644.