Soil bacterial cell counts and moisture content from a water stress experiment [NERC Soil Biodiversity Programme]
https://doi.org/10.5285/999b9188-1784-497a-bdce-8fdfbd03e15b
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Griffiths, R.I.; Whiteley, A.S.; O'Donnell, A.G.; Bailey, M.J.; Mayoux, D.; Burt-Smith, G. (2018). Soil bacterial cell counts and moisture content from a water stress experiment [NERC Soil Biodiversity Programme]. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/999b9188-1784-497a-bdce-8fdfbd03e15b
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© 2018 University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
© 2018 The James Hutton Institute
© UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
This dataset is made available under the terms of the Open Government Licence 
These data comprise culturable cell counts in different media from soil microbial analysis within a microcosm experiment investigating moisture perturbations on microbes, set up at the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Oxford. The experiment used soil turves from outside the main experimental plots at Sourhope, Scotland, collected in July 2001. Soil moisture data are also included.
Data were collected as part of the NERC Soil Biodiversity Thematic Programme, established in 1999 and centred upon the intensive study of a large field experiment located at the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute (now the James Hutton Institute)'s farm at Sourhope in the Scottish Borders. During this time, the site was monitored to assess changes in aboveground biomass production (productivity), species composition and relative abundance (diversity).
Data were collected as part of the NERC Soil Biodiversity Thematic Programme, established in 1999 and centred upon the intensive study of a large field experiment located at the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute (now the James Hutton Institute)'s farm at Sourhope in the Scottish Borders. During this time, the site was monitored to assess changes in aboveground biomass production (productivity), species composition and relative abundance (diversity).
Publication date: 2018-01-30
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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
1999-04-01 to 2004-03-31
Provenance & quality
Data were collected as part of the NERC Soil Biodiversity Thematic Programme, which was established in 1999 and was centred upon the intensive study of a large field experiment located at the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute (MLURI) (now the James Hutton Institute)'s farm at Sourhope in the Scottish Borders (Grid reference: NT8545019630).
Data were collected by scientists employed by Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and MLURI, and were managed by the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology.
Data were collected by scientists employed by Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and MLURI, and were managed by the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology.
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This dataset is made available under the terms of the Open Government Licence
Cite this dataset as:
Griffiths, R.I.; Whiteley, A.S.; O'Donnell, A.G.; Bailey, M.J.; Mayoux, D.; Burt-Smith, G. (2018). Soil bacterial cell counts and moisture content from a water stress experiment [NERC Soil Biodiversity Programme]. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/999b9188-1784-497a-bdce-8fdfbd03e15b
© 2018 University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
© 2018 The James Hutton Institute
© UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
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Supplemental information
Website for the NERC Soil Biodiversity Programme
Physiological and Community Responses of Established Grassland Bacterial Populations to Water Stress
Griffiths, R. I., Whiteley, A. S., O'Donnell, A. G., and Bailey, M. J. (2003). Physiological and Community Responses of Established Grassland Bacterial Populations to Water Stress. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 69: 6961-6968.
Usher, M.B., Sier, A.R., Hornung, M. and Millard, P., 2006. Understanding biological diversity in soil: the UK's Soil Biodiversity Research Programme. Applied Soil Ecology, 33(2), pp.101-113.
Correspondence/contact details
Griffiths, R.
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Maclean Building, Benson Lane, Crowmarsh Gifford
Wallingford
Oxfordshire
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UNITED KINGDOM
enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
Wallingford
Oxfordshire
OX10 8BB
UNITED KINGDOM
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NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
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Publisher
NERC Environmental Information Data Centre
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