AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Elevation-coloured relief map of multibeam echosounder (MBES) scans from the bed of the Solimoes River near Tefe, Brazil, 2022

This GeoTiff presents the results of multi-beam sonar scans of the bed of the Solimoes River (upper Amazon) collected in early October 2022 upstream of Tefe, Brazil. These scans were collected as part of our study of the characteristics of the river banks and bed, an investigation of controls on channel mobility (results were published in Bruckner, Aalto, et al., 2024, Geology v.52 (7), 533-538). It can be viewed as a simple TIF file in a photo viewer, or it can be imported into a GIS system for located display (and access to metadata). Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/d589f56c-ec0a-4340-9718-f594b032a10d

Tags: bathymetry
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
Microsatellite genotype data for five species of bumblebee across an agricultural landscape in Buckinghamshire, UK

Microsatellite data for five species of common and declining bumblebee (Bombus terrestris, B. lapidarius, B. pascuorum, B. hortorum and B. ruderatus) collected across the Hillesden Estate, Buckinghamshire, UK, in summer 2011. Worker genotypes were determined from individuals sampled across an agricultural landscape and queen genotypes were reconstructed from sampled worker offspring. Data were collected as part of a project led by the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, funded under the Insect Pollinators Initiative. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/6a408415-0575-49c6-af69-b568e343266d

Tags: Bombus, Common Carder Bee, Environmental Monitoring Facilities, Insect Pollinators Initiative, bumble bee, bumblebee, microsatellite
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
Weekly water quality data from the River Thames and its major tributaries (2009-2017)

[THIS DATASET HAS BEEN WITHDRAWN]. This data set comprises weekly water quality monitoring data of seven sites along the River Thames, UK, and sixteen of its major tributaries from March 2009 to September 2017. Parameters measured were phosphorus and nitrogen species, dissolved reactive silicon, water temperature, pH, Gran alkalinity, suspended solids, chlorophyll and major dissolved anions (fluoride, chloride, bromide, sulphate) and cations (sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium, boron). Dissolved and total iron, manganese, zinc and copper concentrations have also been produced from August 2010 to February 2013. The accompanying daily river flow data are also supplied. Samples were taken as part of the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology's Thames Initiative monitoring programme. 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/cf10ea9a-a249-4074-ac0c-e0c3079e5e45

Tags: Hydrography, UK-SCAPE
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
Seedlings leaf loss by herbivory in a fertilized forest in Central Amazonia (2019 - 2020)

Data are presented showing for individual seedling, herbivory damage at the leaf level; galls, pathogens, trail herbivory presence/absence qualitative data; and leaf mortality. Data were collected in each leaf from a plot based fertilisation experiment. The experiment was carried out at the Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project (BDFFP) approximately 100 km north of Manaus. Data were collected bimonthly from February 2019 to January 2020, by the dataset first author. Leaf loss in percentage was made using the choice for direct visual estimate. We also followed the recommendations proposed by the authors, sectoring the leaves with a millimetre grid, improving measurement accuracy. The presence of Galls, pathogens and trail herbivory presence/absence qualitative data were also collected in each leaf. The work was carried out as part of the Amazon Fertilization Experiment (AFEX), funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), Award reference NE/L007223/1, the Brazilian government (Researcher scholarship) and the Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project (BDFFP - logistical support and camps maintenance). Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/2b8029ff-ddf5-47b2-9231-5fa0cbb6cd41

Tags: Amazon, Amazon Fertilization Experiment (AFEX), Biological Dynamics of Forest Fragments Project, Fertilization experiment, Plot experiment
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
Pollinators in oilseed rape fields in relation to local plant diversity and landscape characteristics

The number and type of pollinators in winter-sown oilseed rape fields (Brassica napus L.) in relation to local plant diversity (in crop and field margin) and landscape characteristics. Pollinators were collected using two methods (pan traps and transects). Local plant diversity was assessed using quadrats in field margins and in cropped area. The presence of hedges was also recorded. Landscape characteristics included the presence of patches of grassland of different biodiversity levels and the amount of grasslands and other semi natural habitat within a 0.5 - 3km radius circular buffer of the collection points. Data were collected over two years (2014-2015). These data were collected as part of Wessex BESS project, funded by the NERC Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability research program. This dataset can be used in conjunction with other Wessex BESS WP4 datasets. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/6128a4f7-d2ac-43c5-b492-af4c654e89b8

Tags: Andrena nigroaenea, Environmental Monitoring Facilities, Meligethes aeneus, Wessex BESS
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
Topsoil physico-chemical properties from the Glastir Monitoring and Evaluation Programme, Wales 2013-2016

This data set includes a range of physico-chemical properties measured from topsoil within a wide range of land use types across Wales, collected as part of the Glastir Monitoring and Evaluation Programme (GMEP). The properties included are: soil organic matter (loss on ignition (LOI)), derived carbon concentration, total soil organic carbon (SOC), nitrogen, total soil phosphorous, Olsen-phosphorous (within improved land only), pH, electrical conductivity, soil bulk density of fine earth, fine earth volumetric water content when sampled and soil water repellency - water drop penetration time. The monitoring programme was set up by the Welsh Government in 2013 to monitor the effects of the Glastir agri-environment scheme on the environment and ran from 2013 to 2016. The field survey element was based on a stratified random sampling design of 300 x 1km square sites across Wales, and was managed by the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/0fa51dc6-1537-4ad6-9d06-e476c137ed09

Tags: Environmental Monitoring Facilities, Glastir Monitoring and Evaluation Programme (GMEP), Olsen-P, SOC, Soil properties, Wales, agri-environment scheme, nitrogen, pH, soil organic carbon, soil organic matter, volumetric water content, water drop penetration time, water repellency
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
CO2 and CH4 fluxes measured using static chamber technique from a hemi-boreal ombrotrophic fen in drought and non-drought years, Mycklemossen, Sweden, 2017-2019

Net ecosystem exchange and methane fluxes were measured from a hemi-boreal ombrotrophic fen in Southern Sweden. An automated chamber system, SkyLine2D, was used to measure the fluxes near-continuously from August 2017 to September 2019. Four ecotypes were identified: sphagnum (Sphagnum spp), eriophorum, heather and water, to assess how these different ecotypes would respond to drought. The 2018 drought allowed comparison of fluxes between drought and non-drought years (May to September), and their recovery the following year. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/d7bfc4ed-8ead-4d06-8e45-b592c1f48f3f

Tags: Environmental Monitoring Facilities, Peatland, hemi-boreal, ombrotrophic fen
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
Data from automatic water monitoring buoy from Bassenthwaite Lake, 2012 to 2015

This dataset consists of hourly lake temperature, air temperature, solar irradiance and wind speed data from an automatic water monitoring buoy on Bassenthwaite Lake, a lake in the North West of England. The lake temperatures are measured in various depths of the lake (see supporting documentation). Measurements were taken every 4 minutes and calculated as hourly averages. The data were collected by the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology between 2012 and 2015 inclusive. This dataset has been used in various publications, please see supporting documentation for more detail. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/b21e5542-95d3-454e-a2dd-9e6c1966f982

Tags: Environmental Monitoring Facilities, temperature profile 
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
Hampshire Avon: trace gas fluxes from experimentally manipulated plots in three sub-catchments

The dataset contains instantaneous fluxes of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide from intact lysimeters in agricultural grasslands in the Hampshire Avon catchment (UK). Manipulations of soil temperature, soil water saturation, additions of nitrogen, phosphorus and of nitrogen and phosphorus were made at three orthogonal experiments in three sub-catchments of contrasting geology (chalk, clay and greensand). Fluxes of carbon dioxide were directly measured continuously during 2014 and 2015 using automated chamber approach, and fluxes of methane and nitrous oxide were measured in 'campaign' mode. Flux measurements consisted of chamber closure for 180 seconds, except when in 'campaign' mode when measurement periods were extended to 300 seconds. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/8031c2c1-7032-4958-b314-7664d747b988

Tags: Hampshire Avon, Hydrography, Nitrous oxide, Nutrient addition, flux
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
Coastal Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability (CBESS) sediment particle size in mudflat and saltmarsh habitats

The dataset details particle size of sediments across six intertidal sites in the winter and summer of 2013. The data provide a quantitative measure of the sediment particle size fractions 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 four spatial scales. three replicate samples of surface sediment were collected at each quadrat. They were then processed using laser particle size analysis. Values are expressed as different metrics of particle size and as specified size fractions as percentages of the total. 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/10.5285/4e6a2e58-6916-4212-8b2e-e30942b0a05a

Tags: BESS, CBESS, Habitats and Biotopes, mudflat, particle size, spatial scale
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
A systematic review of common measurement methods of global soil protease activity between 1970-2020

The dataset contains global soil protease activities and common methodological parameters (i.e. fluorometric and colorimetric analysis) used to measure soil protease activity between 1970-2020. The dataset also includes key environmental parameters that affect protease activity i.e. soil type, soil pH, mean annual temperature, mean annual precipitation, soil organic carbon, and clay content. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/3055e8c7-fa76-4350-bbdc-9b9958f58d10

Tags: Soil, enzyme assay, nitrogen cycling, peptidase, protease activity, proteinase
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
Input data and settings for running a Community Water Model (CWatM) of the Ebro River basin, Spain, 1990-2012

This dataset contains the input data and settings needed to run a Community Water Model (CWatM) of the Ebro River basin in Spain. The input data include: an elevation model of the catchment, flow direction map, river routing, lakes and reservoirs, soils, groundwater, land cover, crop coefficients population and GDP, and water demands for irrigation, livestock, industry, and domestic sectors. CWatM is a distributed hydrological model simulating the water cycle at global and local levels maintained by IIASA BNR Water Security group. The model was used to assess water supply and demand, and environmental needs, including water management and human influence within the water cycle in the Ebro River basin. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/468d6fd5-e14b-4eb1-be9f-76f56c4a2d18

Tags: CWatM, Ebro, Environmental Monitoring Facilities, Spain, distributed model
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
Macroinvertebrate taxonomic abundance, water quality, river flow, air temperature and environmental site descriptors from English rivers, 1965-2018

[THIS DATASET HAS BEEN WITHDRAWN]. This data product combines macroinvertebrate taxonomic abundance for 1,519 monitoring sites across English rivers for the period between 1965 and 2018, with concentrations of 41 water quality determinands, river flow measurements and air temperature derived values. It also includes site variables such as sewage effluent exposure, habitat quality, land cover in the upstream catchment and other physical parameters measured at the sampling point such as altitude, slope, distance from source, width and depth of the channel, and type of substrate. Developed as part of the ChemPop (2018-2023), a NERC-funded project investigating the impact of chemical exposure on wildlife populations in rivers, this research output is an open data product for use in a broad spectrum of environmental data and modelling analyses. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/faa526cc-52f5-4468-97bb-295660bcea34

Tags: England, Species Distribution, chemical pollution, freshwater, macroinvertebrates, populations, rivers, water quality
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
Images of nocturnal insects collected in a trial of three automated camera systems on Barro Colorado Island, Panama, January 2023

Dataset contains images recorded during a trial of Automated Monitoring of Insects (AMI), Automoth and Diopsis camera systems. The images were taken at five sites in Barro Colorado Island, Panama, during night-time hours from the 23rd to the 26th of January 2023. The parties involved in data collection are listed in the author section. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/b088d4bd-4abb-46d4-bc90-f4e58c65f324

Tags: AMI, Winged insects
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
Hampshire Avon: Vertical head gradient, saturated hydraulic conductivity and pore water chemistry data from six river reaches

This dataset contains measurements of hydraulic head and saturated hydraulic conductivity together with porewater chemistry from banks and riverbed sediments in six river reaches of contrasting geology (clay, sand, chalk) in the Hampshire Avon. Falling and rising (slug) test data were used for computation of saturated hydraulic conductivity. Hydraulic head measurements were obtained from pressure transducers installed in piezometers between Summer 2013 and Summer 2015. Samples for porewater chemical analysis were collected from porewater sampling tubes on the piezometer network between Summer 2014 and Summer 2015. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/d82a04ce-f04d-40b4-9750-1a2bf7dc29a3

Tags: Hampshire Avon, Hydrography, Solutes
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
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

Tags: Experimental, Floodplain Meadow, Habitats and Biotopes, Long-term, Oxfordshire, Sheep, Thames, Ungrazed, Wytham
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
Loch Leven monitoring data (water quality, chemistry, crustacean zooplankton), 2021

This dataset contains weather conditions, water quality, water chemistry and crustacean zooplankton counts sampled at Loch Leven throughout the year 2021. 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/f5dc095c-e3f6-4d9e-be80-40e35c298142

Tags: Crustacean zooplankton, Environmental Monitoring Facilities, Scotland, Taxa, UK-SCAPE, Water chemistry
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
Simulated streamflow, demands and aquifer levels in the Narmada Basin, India, 1970-2099 using the Global Water Availability Assessment Model (GWAVA)

The data resource contains daily time-series of simulated streamflow, ground water levels and estimated demands, from humans, livestock and irrigation across the Narmada Basin, India. The data were generated using the Global Water Availability Assessment (GWAVA) Model 5. For the Upper Narmada, a baseline of 1970-2013 is presented along with a future time slice of 2028- 2060. For the whole Narmada, a baseline of 1981-2013 and future period of 2021-2099 is included. The data were produced to help predict how climate and land use change in the region would impact on future water security. The research was funded by NERC research grant NE/R000131/1 Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/9fc7ab01-c622-46f1-a904-0bcd54073da3

Tags: Aquifer level, Barmanghat, Belkheri, Chhigaon, Gadarwara, Garudeshwar, General Circulation Model (GCM), Global Water Availability Assessment Tool (GWAVA), Handia, Hoshangabad, Industry demand, Irrigation demand, Kohgaon, Livestock demand, Mandleshwar, Manot, Mohgaon, Narmada, Patan, Probability distribution model (PDM), Rural domestic demand, Sandia, Streamflow, Urban domestic demand
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
Water quality data from the Ribble and Wyre catchments 2008-2010

Water quality data from 26 Ribble and Wyre river basin sites in north west England. Samples were analysed for major solutes, pH, Gran alkalinity, trace metals, mercury and chlorophyll. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/b4b44b04-bfd0-40ca-b60a-681018eb78ce

Tags: Blackburn, Burnley, Environmental Monitoring Facilities, Pennines, Preston, Ribble, Ribble estuary, South Blackpool, Wyre
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
First egg dates for great tits (Parus major) and blue tits (Cyanistes caeruleus) breeding in three deciduous woods in Cambridgeshire, England in 1993 to 2014

[THIS DATASET HAS BEEN WITHDRAWN]. This dataset contains first egg dates for great tits (Parus major) and blue tits (Cyanistes caeruleus) from Monks Wood, Brampton Wood and Wennington Wood in Cambridgeshire, England, over a 22 year period. The dataset runs from the breeding season in 1993 to the end of the breeding season in 2014. The first egg dates are presented as the number of days from the start date which was set as the 1st April each year. Because the timing of breeding of great tits and blue tits is influenced in large part by ambient temperature and the phenology of their main prey, the data were collected as a measure of spring phenology. These data comprise part of a larger long-term study of the influence of habitat (extent, structure and composition) and landscape factors on abundance, distribution and breeding success of woodland birds in English lowland deciduous woodland. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/2024e114-6a7e-437d-b3a6-4929967eb1aa

Tags: Brampton Wood, Environmental Monitoring Facilities, Wennington Wood
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
Soil physical, chemical, and biological properties (0-1 m) at five long-term grassland-to-woodland land use contrasts across England, 2018-2019

This dataset contains soil chemical, physical and biological properties for up to six soil layers between 0 and 100 cm, measured once at each of the five long-term grassland-to-woodland land use contrasts across England between November 2018 and March 2019. Each of the plots was further divided into three grids (grassland grids 1 to 3 / woodland grids 4 to 6) with grids 1 and 6 being the furthest apart. The contrast boundary is between grids 3 and 4. In each plot, nine sampling locations were randomly sampled (three in each grid). The five grassland-to-woodland contrasts were located across England: Gisburn (Gisburn-1, Gisburn-2), Alice Holt, Wytham Woods, and Kielder Forest. Common soil physical and chemical properties were measured; field water content, soil water content, electrical conductivity, bulk density, pH in DIW, pH in CaCl2, Loss-on-ignition, total soil carbon, total soil nitrogen, and total soil phosphorus. Less common properties were also measured; extractable soil nitrogen, dissolved organic carbon, soil aggregate sizes, and soil texture. And for specific soil cores these additional following properties were measured; soil density fractions and their carbon and nitrogen contents, cation exchange capacity, Sodium concentration, potassium concentration, calcium concentration, magnesium concentration, and extracellular enzyme activities. Derived metrics resulting from the bioinformatic processing of the raw sequence files are provided as part this dataset. The properties in this dataset are co-located with ANPP estimates, litter layer depth measurements, soil hydraulic measurements (soil water release curves and hydraulic conductivity), earthworm counts and identification. A file is provided to connect all co-located measurements. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/8a2451f8-7999-47c4-9e2a-8e9567377ffb

Tags: SOC, SOC-D, Soil, UK-SCAPE, co-located measurements, meta genome, microbial genes, soil physics, topsoil, woodland
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre