AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Riparian vegetation dynamics in the Beas and Sutlej catchments, India, 1989-2020

The data comprises river section, zone and test site delineation, winter Season average NDVI by section and zone 1989-2020, land cover maps seasonally 1989-2020, and derived land cover fractions by section and zone 1989-2020. The data was produced as part of a study to determine how changes in geomorphic form and dynamics due to human alteration to river flows and riparian land management relate to changes in vegetation communities in the Sutlej and Beas Rivers, India. Vegetated and other land cover, including water area, were quantified by winter season NDVI trends (in the plains of Punjab) and seasonal supervised classification of Landsat data for over a 30-year period. The work was supported by the Natural Environment Research Council (Grant NE/S01232X/1). Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/9a96e199-34d0-46f9-9a64-140d300a2531

Tags: Fluvial geomorphology, Landsat, NDVI
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
The effects of intergroup conflict on social networks in banded mongooses in Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda, 2016-2017

This dataset comprises measurements of grooming and aggressive interactions in banded mongooses in response to simulated intergroup conflict, collected from a wild population of banded mongooses on the Mweya Peninsula, Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda between 2016-2017. We experimentally simulated conflict between rival social groups of banded mongooses and recorded observations of grooming and aggression between individuals in the focal group. These data were collected to examine changes in social networks in the face of intergroup conflict. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/d188de5e-17a5-481d-a80b-bae96736e6c8

Tags: Aggression, banded mongoose, behavioural ecology, grooming, intergroup conflict, social networks
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
Spring emergence data for the plant species Calluna vulgaris and Vaccinium myrtillus at the Climoor fieldsite in Clocaenog Forest

[THIS DATASET HAS BEEN WITHDRAWN]. This dataset includes phenology (spring emergence) data from two of the dominant higher plant species in the experimental plots at the Climoor field site in Clocaenog Forest, NE Wales. Data includes shoot length extension and growth form for Calluna vulgaris, and shoot length, phenophase and location for Vaccinium myrtillus (please refer to supporting documentation for definitions). The data were recorded in 2000, 2002 and 2004. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/ef0bf96f-357b-4c7e-80e4-1a33903eecdf

Tags: Environmental Monitoring Facilities
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
Welsh Mountain ewe urine frequency and volume data measured from tri-axial accelerometers on ewes grazing two upland pastures in North Wales

This dataset contains urine frequency and volume data measured from tri-axial accelerometers on Welsh mountain ewes free-grazing two contrasting upland field sites (semi-improved and unimproved pasture) in North Wales, across two seasons each (spring and autumn). The data, were collected using tri-axial accelerometers glued to the hind of Welsh Mountain ewes to study the urination behaviour of free-grazing sheep. Using a Boolean algorithm, the characteristic squatting position that ewes exhibit upon urination was detected in the accelerometer data. Initially the performance of the accelerometers with sheep in urine collection pens was assessed. Data were collected on the volume of each urination event and recorded the time of each observed urination event. This initial data was used to assess whether the accelerometers and Boolean algorithm were successful in identifying urination events, but also to ascertain whether the time spent in the squatting position would correlate with the volume of urine produced (thus allowing the technique to be able to estimate urine volume from squatting time only in subsequent field deployments). Information on when, where and how often livestock urinate are key data to be able to assess the scale and nature of nitrogen pollution arising from grazed agroecosystems. Urine patches deposited by grazing livestock are large sources of emissions of the greenhouse gas, nitrous oxide, due to high concentrations of nitrogen deposited over relatively small areas. These data were collected in the NERC funded Uplands-N2O project (grant award: NE/M015351/1). Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/127afd24-d2cd-457f-b837-2dd5d328f101

Tags: Environmental Monitoring Facilities, accelerometers, urination
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
Turbulent fluxes of sensible heat and momentum at an ancient deciduous broadleaved forest in southern England

The dataset contains time series observations of turbulent surface-atmosphere exchanges of sensible heat (H) and momentum (τ) measured at an area of ancient broadleaved deciduous forest in Oxfordshire, UK (Wytham Woods). Turbulent flux densities were monitored from the top of a forest tower using the micrometeorological eddy covariance (EC) technique between 2014-06-13 13:00 and 2016-01-04 22:00. The dataset includes ancillary weather and soil physics observations, as well as variables describing atmospheric turbulence and the quality of the turbulent flux observations. Data were collected by staff from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Wallingford. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/9b9ae2fe-e545-4209-b35f-e2ef6231dfe6

Tags: Ancient broadleaved deciduous forest , Atmospheric turbulence , Environmental Monitoring Facilities, Flux tower, Momentum, Sensible heat, Soil physics, Wytham Woods
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
Electrical resistance of trees and soil in Ankasa forest, Ghana, 2019

Measurements of tree resistance to ground and adjacent soils in the Ankasa Conservation Area located in southwestern Ghana. Tree species were selected as representative of the dominant species with diameter at breast height (DBH) ranging from 17.8 to 77.8 cm. The selected 20 trees had DBH ranging from 17.8 to 77.8 cm. In addition, measurements were extended to a single liana (Connarus africanus) with 7.0 cm DBH. Data on tree and soil resistivity were collected on the same 20 trees for both wet (March) and dry (September) season campaigns in 2019. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/c46028c6-1d2b-4b40-a174-39ea3fee2499

Tags: Fall of potential , Ground
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
High-resolution time-series of flood storage area water levels and estimated stored volumes in the Littlestock Brook, Thames Basin, England, 2018-2022

This dataset contains high-resolution (5-minute) raw, atmospheric corrected and mean sea level adjusted water level data for 9 flood storage areas (FSAs) in the Littlestock Brook catchment (a tributary of the River Evenlode, Thames Basin) from 2018 to 2022. The dataset also includes the estimated 9 x FSA stored volume time-series, estimated using a depth-stored volume lookup table for each FSA, produced from a digital elevation model of each feature and a depth-area-volume toolset. The annual barometric pressure time-series used to correct water level is also provided. This dataset was collected by UKCEH as part of a hydrological monitoring programme for the Littlestock Brook Natural Flood Management scheme. This work was supported by the SPITFIRE NERC DTP (NE/L002531/1) and the SCENARIO NERC DTP (NE/L002566/1). Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/cf70f798-442a-4775-963c-b6600023830f

Tags: Cotswolds, Hydrography, Thames Basin, bund, flood storage area (FSA), natural flood management (NFM)
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
Denitrification and greenhouse gas emissions in natural and semi-natural terrestrial ecosystems [LTLS]

Data comprise monthly field measurements of in-situ denitrification rates in different land use types of the Ribble Wyre and Conwy catchments. The data include greenhouse gas emissions (methane, carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide), denitrification data (nitrogen and nitrous oxide) and soil properties data (nitrate, dissolved nitrogen, ammonia, bulk density, carbon to nitrogen ratio, dissolved organic carbon, moisture content, organic matter content, pH, temperature and water filled pore space). The research was funded by the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) grant (NE/J011541/1) awarded to Keele University and supported by the NERC Life Sciences Mass Spectrometry Facility Steering Committee. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/d970c095-129a-41ac-9c82-950ab7804581

Tags: Environmental Monitoring Facilities, Ribble Wyre
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
Insect pollinator visitations to soybean crops, and soybean crop yield, along a latitudinal gradient in South America, 2020-2022

This data set represents field-based monitoring of insect pollinator communities found within soya (Glycine max L. Merril) crops located along a latitudinal gradient ranging from -37.669486 to -24.495121 covering both Argentina and Brazil. Yield data was also collected from these same sites to elucidate the dependencies of this crop on insect pollination with a focus on managed and wild pollinators. Data was collected over multiple seasons between 2020 and 2022. Soybean is one of the most traded agricultural commodities and is of significant economic importance in South America. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/2bd21042-ebbc-4454-8ca3-96e18333ccd2

Tags: Glycine max, Soya, autogamy autonomous self-pollination, honeybees, pollination, wild bees
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
Physico-chemical properties and discharge of a peatland river, Drumtree, Scotland, May 2012 to December 2014

This data set covers high resolution (30-min frequency) water quality and dissolved carbon data from a peatland river in Southwest Scotland (5.8 km2), part of the Whitelee Wind Farm complex. The data set covers approx. 2.5 years including two full hydrological years and 261 individual flood events between 23/05/2012 and 16/12/2014. Carbon data was measured using a Scan Spectrolyser – a field deployable UV-Vis light spectrometer. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/4c591c29-01c9-493b-806e-7253e2682376

Tags: Discharge event, Dissolved organic matter, Environmental Monitoring Facilities, Hydrograph, Hysteresis, Peatland , River chemistry, Spectrolyser, Time-series, UV-Vis
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
Diurnal soil nitrous oxide emission, soil temperature and other non-diurnal parameter data, UK, 1983-2019, collated from literature

These datasets were used for a study investigating the prevalence of diurnal variability of soil nitrous oxide (N¬2O) emissions. The datasets contain 286 diurnal N¬2O flux datasets and 160 diurnal soil temperature datasets, which were extracted from 46 published journal articles that were selected from a literature search and passed through a set of eligibility criteria. The datasets also include processed diurnal N¬2O flux data, which were used to classify the diurnal N¬2O pattern of the datasets. Data of non-diurnal factors from the literature including soil pH, bulk density, soil texture, season of measurement, soil water-filled pore space, irrigation and grazing are also included in the datasets. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/94e37080-4383-4f6e-b14a-04ac2ac79bf0

Tags: N2O flux, Soil, nitrous oxide
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
Coastal Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability (CBESS) global positioning system (GPS) locations for instruments and features associated with wave monitoring and sedimentation-erosion table installations in saltmarsh and mudflat habitats

The dataset details global positioning system (GPS) locations recorded for instruments and locations of interest associated with equipment installed for the monitoring of wave energy, surface elevation changes and sedimentation at five UK saltmarsh sites. Two of the sites were in Morecambe Bay, North West England and three of the sites were in Essex, South East England, each of these sites consisted of a salt marsh area and adjacent mudflat area. Rod Sedimentation-Erosion Tables (rSETs) were installed at different distances from the vegetated margin. Three rSETs were deployed for each Essex site and four for the Morecambe sites. rSET benchmarks were installed with associated marker horizons to evaluate surface elevation changes and surface accretion respectively. Shore-normal transects of pressure transducers (PTs) were installed to monitor wave energy transformation across the marsh and mudflat surfaces. The locations and elevations of the equipment is necessary to make use of the associated datasets "Coastal Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability (CBESS) wave monitoring over saltmarsh and mudflat habitats" and "Coastal Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability (CBESS) sedimentation and erosion monitoring over saltmarsh and mudflat habitats". 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/adf702a1-d154-45b5-9c31-4f6acf5836f1

Tags: BESS, CBESS, GNSS, GPS, Habitats and Biotopes, dGPS, geolocation, geopositioning, mudflat, salt marsh, surface elevation
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
Soil respiration responses to carbon, nitrogen and phosphorous additions to topsoil and subsoil cores from the Conwy catchment in North Wales (2014)

The data consists of raw data on measured carbon dioxide (CO2) and nitrous oxide concentration (N2O) concentrations from intact soil topsoil (0-15 cm) and subsoil cores (85-100 cm) to added carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus. Four land uses (Bog, acid grassland, improved grassland and arable field) in North Wales were selected for this study with three replicates each. Intact soil cores were taken in January and February in 2014. The data consists of three datasets. The first dataset contains the measured CO2 concentration that was measured from intact topsoil cores (0-15 cm) as a result of carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus additions form a pilot study. For the pilot study intact topsoil cores were taken in November and December in 2013 from three sites. a Podzol, a coniferous forest soil and a grassland soil. These sites were not in the Conwy Catchment. The pilot study results were used to inform the experimental setup for the main experiment. The data from the main experiment, measured carbon dioxide (CO2) and nitrous oxide concentration (N2O), are reported in the second dataset for intact topsoil and subsoil cores. The third dataset contains nitrogen mineralization data from the intact soil cores that were used as control cores and did not receive any carbon or nutrient additions. The dataset contains measurements on soil nitrate, ammonium and total nitrogen mineralization rates in milligrammes of nitrogen per gramme of dry weight or per gramme of organic matter content. In both the experimental datasets, the weight of the soil cores at field capacity (in grammes) was reported and weight loss was adjusted by adding an artificial rain water solution. The incubation time (in minutes), the measured CO2 and N2O concentrations (in part per million = ppm) were recorded at the beginning and the end of the incubation. Total soil dry weight per soil core (in grammes) and the total weight of soil organic matter (loss on ignition, in grammes) are reported. The data were collected to calculate production of Measurements were undertaken by staff from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. The data were collected to link plant and soil nutrients to aboveground and belowground ecosystem processes to incorporate relevant parameters into the Joint UK Land Environment Simulator (JULES) model. 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/10.5285/0c17a041-8852-4800-9c04-2ab2dd858837

Tags: Conwy catchment, Environmental Monitoring Facilities, Macronutrients Programme (MCP), North Wales, Turf2Surf (T2S)
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
Species traits, ecological preferences and distribution metrics for 48 species of ladybird considered resident in the United Kingdom

This dataset includes compiled information on species traits, ecological preferences and distribution metrics for 48 species of ladybird considered resident in the United Kingdom. Ecological traits including information on morphology, habitat and diet preferences, and phenology as well as information on species distributions, trends in species occupancy over time, and species temperature indices have been determined where possible for each of the 48 species. An open access data paper is available for this dataset [Outhwaite, C.L., Cocker, L., Comont, R.F., White, H.J., Powney, G.D., Turvey, K., Roy, H.E., & Brown, P.M.J. (2025). A database of traits for the ladybird species of the United Kingdom. Scientific Data, 12(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-05985-8 ] Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/18cdeee4-38cf-4d15-a141-a99a53e17095

Tags: Coccinellidae, Environmental Monitoring Facilities, Lady beetles, Ladybirds, biological records, traits
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
Litterfall herbivory in fertilised plots in the Central Amazon, 2017-2019

The data consists of leaf traits and nutrients from litterfall in a fertilised old-growth forest in the Central Amazon. Data was collected in a full factorial nutrient addition experiment (nitrogen, phosphorus, and cation treatments). The dataset includes realized leaf area, and Leaf Mass Area (LMA). The field work was completed in August of 2017, 2018 and 2019. The study was funded by NERC, BDFFP (logistical support), and the Brazilian government (students' scholarship). Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/58b66cdf-451c-42e7-8153-c24ec30631fd

Tags: Brazil, Central Amazon, Fertilised experiment, Leaf traits
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
Hydro-epidemiological data for Leptospirosis for areas in Brazil, Malaysia, Philippines, Argentina, China and Sri Lanka, 1978-2020

This dataset contains Leptospirosis case numbers for a number of place studies in Brazil, Malaysia, Philippines, Argentina, China and Sri Lanka. Leptospirosis case numbers are provided as weekly or monthly case numbers and cover the period 1978 to 2020, although timelines vary within place studies. Area-weighted daily average hydrometeorological variables are also included: precipitation, river discharge and soil moisture. The data have been collected and collated for a global analysis of the effect of hydrometeorological extremes on leptospirosis infection risk. Also included are the spatial polygons for each of the place studies. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/56f42170-3678-4586-b8c8-9b05f03125e1

Tags: Argentina, Brazil, China, Discharge, Leptospirosis, Malaysia, Philippines, Sri Lanka
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
Field measurements of pH, conductivity and temperature data from rivers [LOIS]

On site measurements of pH, conductivity and temperature for thirteen sites in the Humber catchment and three sites in the Tweed catchment within the period 1994 to 1997 as part of the Land Ocean Interaction Study project (LOIS). Sites were sampled at regular weekly intervals and more intermittently during high flows (on average an extra sampling once a month per site). Samples were obtained using a wide neck PTFE bottle in a plastic covered bottle carrier (lowered from bridges where possible otherwise collected by immersing sample bottle by hand in the water as near the main flow as possible). pH and conductivity reading were taken using Mettler Toledo Check Mate meters and probes. Temperature readings were obtained using a PT 100 probe with a Digitron 3204 Pt meter (RS components). The measurements were carried out by members of the field sampling team at York University, as part of the Land Ocean Interaction Study (LOIS). Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/329cbe8f-a292-4c5f-a15a-6528774dbee7

Tags: Aire, Calder, Derwent, Environmental Monitoring Facilities, Humber, LOIS, Land Ocean Interaction Study, Nidd, Ouse, Swale, Trent, pH, temperature
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
European Monitoring and Evaluation Programme Model for the UK (EMEP4UK) daily atmospheric composition and fluxes for 2000, 2015 and 2022

This dataset includes gridded daily averaged atmospheric composition for the UK for key air pollutants nitrogen, sulphur, particulates and ozone for the years 2000, 2015 and 2022. The dataset was generated with the European Monitoring and Evaluation Programme for the UK (EMEP4UK) model version 5.0, modified to improve wet deposition rates. The underlying meteorology was generated using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model version 4.4.2. These model outputs were generated as part of the National Capability for UK Challenges (NC-UK) programme, funded by the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), and the National Focal Centre (NFC) work on Mapping and Modelling Critical Loads and Critical Levels, funded by the UK Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra). Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/0675cc95-ea59-4633-a1f1-4bfe7159375a

Tags: Atmospheric Conditions, United Kingdom
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
Flood modelling simulations for Can Tho city, Vietnam

The dataset describes the inundation results simulated by high-performance integrated hydrodynamic modelling system (HiPIMS) model for the pluvial flooding and fluvial flooding in Can Tho city Vietnam. Wherein, the pluvial flooding results simulated by HiPIMS are driven by the design rainfall in the 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, and 100 years return period, respectively, and the fluvial flooding results simulated by HiPIMS are driven by the river water level boundary in 2011. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/585ce4f2-0070-490f-adb2-ed7f1207605b

Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre