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Plant species composition of a meadow sward exposed to grazing treatments at Somerford Mead, Oxford 1987-2014
This dataset includes a description of the flora on Somerford Mead, Oxford for the period 1987 to 2014. During the period 1991 to 2014, a grazing experiment was conducted on the meadow, in which individual plots were either grazed by sheep, grazed by cattle or left ungrazed following the annual hay cut.
The data consist of list of all plant species found at sample locations within each plot together with an estimate of abundance.
Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/691a823c-d1da-4420-837c-3c30ce83818b
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Identification info
- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Character set
- utf8
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2022-08-25
- Identifier
- doi: / 10.5285/691a823c-d1da-4420-837c-3c30ce83818b
- Other citation details
- McDonald, A.W., Mountford, J.O., Stone, M.J., Gowing, D.J.G. (2022). Plant species composition of a meadow sward exposed to grazing treatments at Somerford Mead, Oxford 1987-2014. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/691a823c-d1da-4420-837c-3c30ce83818b
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ()
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- Habitats and Biotopes
- Keywords
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- Floodplain Meadow
- Grazing
- Grassland
- Cattle
- Sheep
- Ungrazed
- Thames,
- Oxfordshire
- Wytham
- Long-term
- Experimental
- Limitations on Public Access
- otherRestrictions
- Other constraints
- no limitations
- Use constraints
- otherRestrictions
- Use constraints
- otherRestrictions
- Other constraints
- Dr A.W. McDonald should be acknowledged as the main originator of these data in their use and in any further dissemination
- Use constraints
- otherRestrictions
- Other constraints
- If you reuse this data, you should cite: McDonald, A.W., Mountford, J.O., Stone, M.J., Gowing, D.J.G. (2022). Plant species composition of a meadow sward exposed to grazing treatments at Somerford Mead, Oxford 1987-2014. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/691a823c-d1da-4420-837c-3c30ce83818b
- Spatial representation type
- textTable
- Distance
- 1 urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
- Topic category
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- Biota
- Environment
- Farming
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- Begin date
- 1987-01-01
- End date
- 2014-12-31
- Code
- WGS 84
Distribution Information
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- Quality Scope
- dataset
- Other
- dataset
Report
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
- The data were gathered on site by Dr Alison McDonald herself or by students (often Dutch) under her supervision during the period 1987 to 2013. In 2014, staff from UKCEH undertook the survey under the direction of J. Owen Mountford. Data were recorded in the field onto pre-prepared forms listing all species previously found on the site. The data were input into an Excel spreadsheet by Dr Melanie Stone on behalf of the Floodplain Meadows Partnership (FMP) in 2021. This work was funded by the Ecological Continuity Trust. The data were subsequently converted to individual text files (.csv) by Prof David Gowing (FMP). The taxonomic accuracy of the names and the species counts were checked by Dr Stone on inputting and comments added where corrections made.
Metadata
- File identifier
- 691a823c-d1da-4420-837c-3c30ce83818b XML
- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Character set
- ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1)
- Resource type
- dataset
- Hierarchy level name
- dataset
- Metadata Date
- 2022-09-06T10:07:49
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
