AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Domestic animal health data from Mambwe District, Zambia (2013)

The dataset describes the results of a laboratory analysis investigating the presence of various infectious agents in goats, cattle, pigs, dogs and sheep from Mambwe District, Eastern Province, Zambia. Blood samples were collected in June, July and August 2013 and stored on Whatman FTA (Flinders Technology Associates) cards. Laboratory analysis was conducted using polymerase chain reactions (PCR) for African trypanosomes and tick-borne infections. In addition, serum was tested for Brucella using the Rose Bengal test. Cattle and dogs were tested for African trypanosomes, tick-borne infections and Brucella. Goats and sheep were tested for African trypanosomes and Brucella. Pigs were tested for African trypanosomes only. The objective was to evaluate the health status of domestic animals in the Mambwe District. This work was conducted alongside a human wellbeing questionnaire survey. The research was part of a wider research project, the Dynamic Drivers of Disease in Africa Consortium (DDDAC). The research was funded by NERC project no NE/J000701/1 with support from the Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation Programme (ESPA). Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/f81ede76-a1d4-4367-aa8c-de087350457e

Tags: Dynamic Drivers of Disease in Africa Consortium (D, Ecosystem Services for Poverty Alleviation (ESPA), Veterinary science
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
Loch Leven monitoring data (water quality, chemistry, crustacean zooplankton), 2019

This dataset contains weather conditions, water quality, water chemistry and crustacean zooplankton counts sampled at Loch Leven throughout the year 2019. Loch Leven is a lowland lake in Scotland, United Kingdom. The data were collected as part of a long-term monitoring programme, which began in 1968 and is still underway. Sampling occurs roughly every 2 weeks with laboratory analysis and data processing being performed at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Edinburgh site. The sampling and processing was supported by the Natural Environment Research Council award number NE/R016429/1 as part of the UK-SCAPE programme delivering National Capability. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/e404f64c-ddbc-4e3e-8dca-9bea3d68959a

Tags: Crustacean zooplankton, Environmental Monitoring Facilities, Lakes, Loch Leven, Scotland, Taxa, UK, UK-SCAPE, Water chemistry, Water quality
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
Soil and ground-level microclimate data among habitats representing different levels of ash dieback in Wytham Woods, Oxfordshire, UK, 2019-2022

The data include daily soil temperature, ground temperature, and ambient temperature in Celsius and soil volumetric moisture in percent between 2019 and 2022, collected from 15 plots across Wytham Woods, near Oxford in southern England. These cover three different habitat types representing different levels of ash dieback: ash dominated and girdled, ash dominated, and non-ash dominated. Soil and ground microclimate (temperature and volumetric moisture) were recorded at 15-minute intervals, and averaged to daily resolution. The data contributed to a project on the ecological impact of ash dieback. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/f1fd1790-0cc0-45ea-8dda-8258d23e88b1

Tags: Environmental Monitoring Facilities, ash dieback, soil and ground temperature, soil moisture
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
Video imagery and flow measurements from five surveys on the River Tweed, July 2024-June 2025

This dataset contains river surface velocity data from video footage and from a kinematic current meter, during five surveys on the River Tweed in Scotland from July 2024 to June 2025. For the video footage, different Ground Control Point (GCP) positions and camera angles are adopted for a comparison of error from various image velocimetry techniques. The footage was captured using a nadir angle with a Unmanned Aerial System (UAS), as well as from an oblique view using an iPhone 14 Pro Max camera, with GCPs positioned at the free water surface and at an elevation above the free water surface. The footage frames were extracted and processed using three different image velocimetry softwares (Particle Tracking Velocimetry (PTV), Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) and Space-Time Image Velocimetry (STIV)). Raw surface velocity outputs from the softwares are recorded herein. The data also includes the extracted frames from the geometrically corrected image velocimetry frames (orthophotos) from the three different viewing angles, and values for tracer density from a preliminary analysis is also included. Discharge data was collated during the final survey in June 2025 using the velocity-area method and salt dilution gauging. This data is recorded alongside an estimation of discharge from image velocimetry surface velocity data using the trapezoidal area of the river. The data was collated for the purpose of evaluating error propagation in image velocimetry applications under operational and sub-optimal environmental conditions. It was collected as part of a PhD project developed to assess the operational efficacy of image velocimetry applications in the UK. The data is complete and unfiltered. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/c5563ca5-60b9-475b-a4a4-c2d6209674ea

Tags: Hydrography, image velocimetry, unmanned aerial system (UAS)
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
Plant aboveground and belowground standing biomass measurements in the Conwy catchment in North Wales (2013 and 2014)

The data consists of, standing aboveground biomass, and belowground biomass measurements, from sites in the Conwy catchment. Standing aboveground biomass was measured at 7 sites and belowground biomass measurements were made at 8 sites. Data were collected in 2013 and 2014. The sites were chosen to represent habitat types and the terrestrial productivity gradient in Britain from intensive agriculturally managed lowland grasslands through to montane heath. Standing aboveground biomass (grams of dry mass per metre square) in habitats dominated by herbaceous biomass was measured on 1x1 metre quadrats in four plots per site. Standing aboveground biomass in woodlands was measured in two 200 square metre areas by means of stem cores and litter collections. Belowground total root biomass (grams of dry mass per square metre) was assessed for the topsoil 0-15 centimetres in three plots per site. Measurements were undertaken by trained members of staff from Bangor University and the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. This data was collected for the NERC project 'The Multi-Scale Response of Water quality, Biodiversity and Carbon Sequestration to Coupled Macronutrient Cycling from Source to Sea' (NE/J011991/1). The project is also referred to as Turf2Surf. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/46bb0117-ed5d-4167-a375-d84d1237cf21

Tags: Conwy catchment, Environmental Monitoring Facilities, Habitats and Biotopes, MCP, Macronutrient Cycling Project, Trurf2Surf, atmosphere-biosphere interaction, catchment scale, land use intensification gradient, plant-soil interaction
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
Water table depth data from five UK blanket bog peatlands, 2021-2023

The dataset contains the logger data from water loggers installed in five UK blanket bog sites: Moor House, Upper Teesdale, England. Flow Country, Forsinard Flows sites Crocach and Nam Breac, Scotland. Flow Country Braemore and Langwell Estate, Scotland. Migneint, Snowdonia, Wales. Within each site, loggers are placed at locations identified as near natural, under restoration and drained. The dataset contains recordings converted into water table depth from each logger from 2021 to 2023. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/85a567a6-0a4a-4dc8-90b9-2fac8d1795a3

Tags: Blanket Bog, Drain-blocking, Flow Country, Migneint, North Pennines, Peatland
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
Headwater stream water chemistry data 2007 [Countryside Survey]

This dataset consists of results of chemical analyses of single water chemistry samples, taken from headwater streams during a survey in 2007. Water samples were analysed at the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology for chemical analysis of alkalinity (at pH 8.3), total oxidised nitrogen and soluble reactive phosphorus. Conductivity and pH were measured in the field using a regularly calibrated field meter. Data were collected under the Countryside Survey long term monitoring project managed by the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. The Countryside Survey is a unique study or 'audit' of the natural resources of the UK's countryside. The sample sites are chosen from a stratified random sample, based on a 15 by 15 km grid of GB. Headwater stream surveys have been carried out in 1990, 1998 and 2007 with repeated visits to the majority of sites. The countryside is sampled and surveyed using rigorous scientific methods, allowing us to compare new results with those from previous surveys. In this way we can detect the gradual and subtle changes that occur in the UK's countryside over time. In addition to headwater stream data, soil data, habitat areas, vegetation species data and linear habitat data are also gathered by Countryside Survey. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/9d923383-4e3c-4aa4-95f5-0e5cdbc5853e

Tags: Environmental Monitoring Facilities, Freshwater, Great Britain
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
Telomere length data from a wild population of Seychelles Warblers on Cousin Island, 1995-2014

These data consist of relative telomere length (RTL) measures from quantitative polymerase chain reaction, of Seychelles warbler birds on Cousin Island, Seychelles. The data were collected by the Seychelles Warbler Project in 1995-2014. Data include bird identity, sex, age, birth period, qPCR plate identity, RTL, technician, territory, field period, mum ID, dad ID, mum age at conception, dad age at conception, dominant female ID in the natal territory, dominant male ID in the natal territory Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/8a8240a2-e8ed-495d-ae93-c35200956764

Tags: Biomarkers, Life history, Senescence, Seychelles Warbler, Telomere
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
Fine root morphological properties in fertilised plots in the Central Amazon, 2018

The data consists of morphological properties of fine roots in old growth forests in Central Amazon. Fine roots younger than three months were sampled using the ingrowth core technique in a large-scale nutrient fertilisation experiment. Morphological properties are given as a mean of the plant community per plot, where five points inside each plot were sampled and separated in two different soil layers (0-10 and 10-30cm). Samples were collected in February 2018, eight months after the nutrient fertilisation started at the AFEX project area in Manaus, Brazil at the Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project (BDFFP/ INPA). The study was funded by NERC, BDFFP (logistical support) and Brazilian government (student scholarship). Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/4ccaab66-2818-41b8-8b31-1a710766c5d6

Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
Peat characteristic data from Blanket Peatland in the Flow Country, Caithness and Sutherland, 2018

The dataset contains peat core data from 7 sites in a 1km2 upland (RSPB Forsinard Knockfin Heights) and 7 sites in a 1km2 of lowland (Plantlife Munsary) blanket peatland within the Flow Country, Caithness and Sutherland. Data was obtained between October 2018 and January 2019. Also included is peat depth data from Knockfin Heights at 100m spacing and Teabag Index data to assess peat decomposition rates at 47 points. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/3458e0b9-5002-4ddb-bcb3-1c7fb08fb70b

Tags: Ash Content, Bulk Density, Flow Country, Peat depth, Soil, TPI
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
Wheat yield resilience metrics for sample 10km x 10km grid cells in England, 2008-2017

Data on resilience of wheat yields in England, derived from the annual Defra Cereals and Oilseeds production survey of commercial farms. The data presented here are summarised over a ten-year time-series (2008-2017) at 10km x10km grid cell (hectad) resolution. The data give the mean yield, relative yield, yield stability and resistance to an extreme event (the poor weather of 2012), for all hectads with at least one sampled farm holding in each year of the time-series (i.e. the minimum data required to calculate the resilience metrics). These metrics were calculated to explore the impact of landscape structure on yield resilience. The data also give the number of samples per year per hectad, so that sampling biases can be explored and filtering applied. No hectads are included that contain data from <9 holdings across the time series (the minimum level required by Defra to maintain anonymity is <5). The data were created under the ASSIST (Achieving Sustainable Agricultural Systems) project by staff at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology to enable exploration of the impacts of agriculture on the environment and vice versa, enabling farmers and policymakers to implement better, more sustainable agricultural practices. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/7dbcee0c-00ca-4fb2-93cf-90f2a5ca37ea

Tags: Achieving Sustainable Agricultural Systems (ASSIST, Land Use
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
Ant colour data from an experiment in Malaysian Borneo, 2015-2018

This dataset measures colour and estimates body size of ant species collected across four vertical strata: subterranean, ground, understory and canopy in lowland tropical rainforest. Ants were collected using different trapping techniques in each stratum; baited traps were used in the subterranean, understory and canopy strata and Winkler extractions were used to collect ground ants. The colour of each ant species was classified categorically by eye using a set pre-determined colours. A single dominant colour was assigned for each species, this was determined as the modal colour across all body parts and individuals for each species. Each colour was linked to a set of RGB (red, green and blue) values which were extracted from the original colour wheel using the image editing software paint.NET (v.4.0.3); RGB values for each colour were converted into HSV (hue, saturation and value) format. Body size of each species was estimated by measuring Weber's length. Accompanying the ant species data set are four additional data files: 1) data set measuring intraspecific variation in colour, 2) data set measuring intraspecific variation in Weber's length, 3) data set measuring soil temperature, and 4) data set measuring UVB radiation at 5 m vertical intervals from the ground to the canopy. This data is a contribution from the UK NERC-funded Biodiversity And Land-use Impacts on Tropical Ecosystem Function (BALI) consortium. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/c0f65bf5-3cb0-41ab-be3d-982490cecba9

Tags: Ants, Borneo, Weber's length
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
Gridded estimates of daily and monthly areal rainfall for the United Kingdom (1890-2017) [CEH-GEAR]

[THIS DATASET HAS BEEN WITHDRAWN]. 1 km gridded estimates of daily and monthly rainfall for Great-Britain and Northern Ireland (together with approximately 3000 km2 of catchment in the Republic of Ireland) from 1890 to 2017. The rainfall estimates are derived from the Met Office national database of observed precipitation. To derive the estimates, monthly and daily (when complete month available) precipitation totals from the UK rain gauge network are used. The natural neighbour interpolation methodology, including a normalisation step based on average annual rainfall, was used to generate the daily and monthly estimates. The estimated rainfall on a given day refers to the rainfall amount precipitated in 24 hours between 9am on that day until 9am on the following day. The CEH-GEAR dataset has been developed according to the guidance provided in BS 7843-4:2012. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/ee9ab43d-a4fe-4e73-afd5-cd4fc4c82556

Tags: Meteorological geographical features
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
Survey responses from farmers on strengthening agricultural drought resilience in Thailand, 2020

This dataset contains the results of a farmers’ survey in the Ping Catchment in Thailand. The aim of this survey was to identify the specific socioeconomic impacts that historical droughts in the Ping catchment have had for agricultural communities, and identify factors affecting adaptation decisions, as well as analyse the communications with and amongst farmers at the local scale in the Ping catchment during drought. Villages in the Ping catchment with a history of drought were selected to represent typical agricultural production typologies. In total, 176 questionnaires were completed with a close to even distribution of respondents coming from the provinces of Chiang Mai (n=41), Lamphun (n=45), Kamphaeng Phet (n=45) and Tak (n=45). Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/155e1867-bc9d-44f0-9f85-0f682964f720

Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
Abundance, biomass and elemental composition (CNP) of consumers in the Hampshire Avon [Macronutrient Cycling]

The dataset contains measurements of the annual average abundance, biomass and elemental composition (C, N, P) of consumers (fish and invertebrates) in six rivers within sub-catchments of the Hampshire Avon of contrasting geology (clay, sand, chalk). Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/6e9a9a6e-1b42-46db-973b-06c1db2961c0

Tags: Elemental composition, Hampshire Avon, Hydrography, Stoichiometry
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
Foraging behaviour of Parus major held in temporary captivity

The data set describes foraging decisions by great tits (Parus major), held in temporary captivity. Data were collected from birds caught from forest at the University of Jyväskylä Research Station, Konnevesi (62°37.7'N 026°17'E), Finland, and were collected during the winter of 2013-2014. Birds were presented with (1) two different coloured plastic cups, or (2) two different artificial prey (almond pieces inside a paper packet and printed with a black and white symbol). One symbol was made bitter-tasting by soaking the almond piece in chloroquine, and learning behaviour was recorded over three trials. Half of the birds in both experiments were presented videos of a demonstrator great tit, to provide social information about prey characteristics and unpalatability. Data were collected to test hypotheses about the evolutionary consequences of social information use by predators as part of a NERC-funded Independent Research Fellowship. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/db55406b-c9a1-4a9e-88c2-2abbcb4bcad3

Tags: Environmental Monitoring Facilities, Great tit, Wild bird, aposematism, foraging, prey defence
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
Daily plot level (micro meteorological) data at Climoor field site in Clocaenog Forest 2022-2023

This dataset presents daily data from temperature and soil moisture sensors in each experimental plot (n=9 plots) at the Climoor field site. Soil temperature is measured at 5 cm and 20 cm soil depth (degrees Celsius), and soil moisture is measured as soil volumetric water content (m3 per m3). Data were collected from the climate change field site Climoor that is located in Clocaenog forest, NE Wales. The experimental field site consists of three untreated control plots (Plots 3, 6 and 9), three plots where the plant canopy air is artificially warmed during night time hours (Plots 1, 2 and 7) and three plots where rainfall is excluded from the plots at least during the plants' growing season (Plots 4, 5 and 8). Data is an extension for the micromet datasets 1998-2015, 2015-2016 and 2016-2021, covering the time period January 2022 to December 2023. Temperature and moisture data are logged in minute intervals and are averaged as half-hourly. Data were sent from the field site to a UKCEH server. A working copy was created, quality assurance checks carried out and daily averages calculated from half-hourly records. Data which were not recorded are marked as “NA”, faulty data were replaced by “-9999”. Data collection, processing and quality check was carried out by UKCEH staff. The Climoor field experiment intends to answer questions regarding the effects of warming and drought on ecosystem processes. The reported plot level temperature and soil moisture data are important to evaluate the effect of the imposed climatic treatments on ecosystem processes and functioning. More detailed information about the field site, measurements and related datasets can be found in the supporting documentation. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/02a10a1a-693c-47dd-8f46-c70ff7f218f0

Tags: Environmental Monitoring Facilities, UK, UK-SCAPE, Wales, plot level data
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
Long-term multisite Scots pine trial, Scotland: field phenotypes, 2013-2020, version 2

Phenotypes (growth and phenology) for Scots pine trees in a long-term common garden trial planted in three sites in Scotland, surveyed annually from 2013 to 2020. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/1c9367fb-ea87-47a1-8257-d9fed54215e7

Tags: Caledonian pinewood, Habitats and Biotopes, Scots pine, adaptive trait variation, common garden experiment, growth, phenology, phenotype
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
Insect species richness for each plant species and insect-plant interactions from the Database of Insects and their Food Plants [DBIF] version 2

This dataset consists of 4,397 insect species associated with 679 native plant species, 120 archaeophytes, and 234 neophytes from the Database of Insects and their Food Plants (DBIF). The DBIF details approximately 60,000 interactions between phytophagous insect (and mite) species and plants recorded in Great Britain over the last century, based on a wide variety of sources, including entomological journals and field guides. The data here represents a reduced subset of the full DBIF (13,277 interactions), only including interactions resolved to the species level (insect species x associated with host plant species y), records that have been expertly verified as reliable and included in previous large-scale analyses (Ward 1988; Ward & Spalding 1993; Ward et al. 1995; Ward et al. 2003), and records that are certain to have occurred in Great Britain. Any records originating from captive breeding studies are excluded. Finally, only plants with associated phylogenetic data and native status are included. Host plant distribution size is also included, in addition to a quantification of the distinctiveness of the insect communities found on a subset of the non-native plants. This work was supported by the Natural Environment Research Council award number NE/R016429/1 as part of the UK-SCAPE programme delivering National Capability. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/33a825f3-27cb-4b39-b59c-0f8182e8e2e4

Tags: Environmental Monitoring Facilities, UK-SCAPE, conservation biology, entomology, macroecology, phylogenetics, phytophagous
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre