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Coastal Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability (CBESS) plant height on salt marsh sites at Morecambe Bay and Essex
The dataset comprises 10 direct measurements in centimetres of plant height taken within a 1metre (m) x 1m quadrat. Also presented are the mean, standard deviation, standard error and coefficient variation values. Sampling was conducted at six salt marsh sites at four spatial scales: 1 m (the minimal sampling unit) nested within a hierarchy of increasing scales of 1-10 m, 10-100 m and 100-1000 m. Three of the sites were in Morecambe Bay, North West England and three of the sites were in Essex, South East England. All samples were taken during the winter and summer of 2013.
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.
Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/d8d37579-83f1-4e36-a681-984a086d6b68
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- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2016-05-03
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- 2016-04-22
- Identifier
- doi: / 10.5285/d8d37579-83f1-4e36-a681-984a086d6b68
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- Ford, H., Garbutt, A., Skov, M. (2016). Coastal Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability (CBESS) plant height on salt marsh sites at Morecambe Bay and Essex. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/d8d37579-83f1-4e36-a681-984a086d6b68
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- CBESS (Coastal Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability)
- BESS (Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability)
- Salt marsh
- Gassland
- plant height
- Vegetation
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- © Bangor University
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- If you reuse this data, you should cite: Ford, H., Garbutt, A., Skov, M. (2016). Coastal Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability (CBESS) plant height on salt marsh sites at Morecambe Bay and Essex. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/d8d37579-83f1-4e36-a681-984a086d6b68
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- Begin date
- 2013-01-01
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- 2013-08-31
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- WGS 84
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- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
- Ten direct measurements of plant height in centimetres were taken randomly within each 1metre (m) x 1m quadrat using the hand and meter rule method. Results were recorded onto field sheets. These data were transferred into an Excel file and calculations carried out. Results were exported as comma separated value files for ingestion into the EIDC. The location of the sample sites was determined by randomly allocated quadrats. Each site consisted of a rectangular area of saltmarsh between 400 x 500 m to 1000 x 1000 m in size, dependent upon saltmarsh length (parallel to shore) and width (perpendicular to shore), including part of the low, mid and high marsh zones. Twenty two 1 x 1 m quadrats were randomly allocated to each site rectangle 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).
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- Metadata Date
- 2022-05-20T10:40:54
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