Coastal Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability (CBESS) total organic carbon in mudflat and saltmarsh habitats
bibliographic citation: Wood, C.L., Hawkins, S.J., Godbold, J.A., Solan, M. (2015). Coastal Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability (CBESS) total organic carbon in mudflat and saltmarsh habitats. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/d4e9f0f7-637a-4aa4-b9df-2a4ca5bfaded
description: The dataset details organic carbon content of sediments across 6 intertidal sites in the winter and summer of 2013. The data provide a quantitative measure of the organic carbon present within surface sediments (up to a depth of 2 cm). Three sites were located in Essex, South East England and the other 3 in Morecambe Bay, North West England. Each site consisted of a saltmarsh habitat and adjacent mudflat habitat. 22 sampling quadrats were placed in each habitat covering 4 spatial scales. 3 replicate samples of surface sediment were collected at each quadrat. They were then processed for organic carbon content using the Loss on Ignition method (detailed below) Values are expressed as a percentage of the total sample collected. This data was collected as part of Coastal Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability (CBESS): NE/J015644/1. The project was funded with support from the Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability (BESS) programme. BESS is a six-year programme (2011-2017) funded by the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) as part of the UK's Living with Environmental Change (LWEC) programme.
provenance: ProvenanceStatement
  label: The location of the sample sites was determined by randomly allocated quadrats. Twenty two 1 x 1 m quadrats were randomly allocated to each mudflat and saltmarsh site using R (R Development Core Team, 2014) to specify four different spatial scales (A = 1 quadrat only, B = 3 quadrats at 1 m to 10 m apart, C = 6 quadrats at 10 m to 100 m apart, D = 12 quadrats at 100 m to 1000 m or site maximum). Mudflats: surface scrapes of sediment were taken. Saltmarsh: sediment was cut from 2cm below the surface. All samples were frozen at minus 20 degrees and then analysed using standard loss on ignition (LOI) technique, full details of which can be found here: http://www.geog.cam.ac.uk/facilities/laboratories/techniques/loi.html
spatial: Location
  bbox: POLYGON((-3 51.5, -3 54.25, 1 54.25, 1 51.5, -3 51.5))
temporal: PeriodOfTime
  start date: 2013-01-01
  end date: 2013-08-01
publisher: NERC Environmental Information Data Centre
subject: Essex
subject: Morecambe Bay
subject: United Kingdom
subject: BESS
subject: CBESS
subject: spatial scale
subject: organic carbon
subject: season
subject: intertidal zone
subject: benthic ecosystem
subject: sediment
subject: salt marsh
subject: mud flat
was generated by: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects
type: Dataset
available: 2015-12-31
landing page: https://doi.org/10.5285/d4e9f0f7-637a-4aa4-b9df-2a4ca5bfaded
license: OGL-UK-3.0.ttl
rights: RightsStatement
  copyright notice: copyright University of Southampton
access rights: UNRS
distribution:
  access URL: https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/d4e9f0f7-637a-4aa4-b9df-2a4ca5bfaded
  license: OGL-UK-3.0.ttl
  rights: RightsStatement
    copyright notice: copyright University of Southampton
  access rights: UNRS
  format: Comma-separated values (CSV)
creator: Godbold, J.A.
creator: Solan, M.
language: en

Solan, M.
type: Person
family name: Solan
given name: Martin
member: University of Southampton

NERC Environmental Information Data Centre
type: Organization

Wood, C.L.
type: Person
family name: Wood
given name: C.L.
member: University of Southampton

Hawkins, S.J.
type: Person
family name: Hawkins
given name: S.J.
member: University of Southampton

Godbold, J.A.
type: Person
family name: Godbold
given name: J.A.
member: University of Southampton

Solan, M.
type: Person
family name: Solan
given name: Martin
member: University of Southampton

Essex
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Morecambe Bay
type: Concept

United Kingdom
type: Concept

organic carbon
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season
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intertidal zone
type: Concept

benthic ecosystem
type: Concept

sediment
type: Concept

salt marsh
type: Concept

mud flat
type: Concept

University of Southampton
type: Organization