AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Physico-chemical characterization of anaerobic digestate and biomass ash derived from UK bioenergy production

This dataset contains nitrogen data from nitrate, ammonium and nitrite, total nitrogen and carbon data, and elemental composition data from anaerobic digestate and biomass ash from UK bioenergy production. Anaerobic digestate was sampled 8 times from different industrial scale plants across the UK between January 2015 and January 2018 and biomass ash was sampled in January 2015 and June 2016. Anaerobic digestate was sourced from segregated food waste (mainly household waste), pig slurry, maize silage, vegetables waste, sweet corn waste, aerobically treated food waste, food manufacturer waste and other biodegradable sludge from within the UK. Biomass ash, both fly and bottom ash, from virgin and recycled wood was sourced from three sites within the UK and one from Spain. All laboratory analyses were undertaken at Lancaster University using standardised methods. The data were collected as part of the research grant, Developing a suite of novel land conditioners and plant fertilizers from the waste streams of biomass energy generation. The research was funded by NERC, award NE/L014122/1. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/990c54f6-5c92-4054-8bfa-953533a89149

Tags: Carbon to Nitrogen ratio, Dry matter, Electrical Conductivity, Energy Resources, Magnesium, Manganese, Potassium, Sodium, Total Carbon, pH
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
Campanula rotundifolia cytotype, distribution and first flowering dates

[THIS DATASET HAS BEEN WITHDRAWN]. This dataset comprises information of location and cytotype of over 1300 samples of Campanula rotundifolia L. from the northern hemisphere (mostly from Britain and Ireland) and data from a common garden study in which British and Irish cytotypes were grown together and their flowering phenology and growth were assessed. Campanula rotundifolia L. is a widespread polyploid perennial herbaceous plant, with diploid, tetraploid, pentaploid and hexaploid cytotypes. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/f27cf73b-65f0-4838-b6ad-efe865a4188c

Tags: Environmental Monitoring Facilities, Harebell
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
Estimates of anthropogenic emissions of metals and air pollutants in the UK at a 1km resolution, 1750-2100

This dataset estimates and spatially distributes anthropogenic emissions of five metals (Cd, Cu, Ni, Pb & Zn) and seven air pollutants (CO, NH3, NOx, PM2.5, PM10, SOx & NMVOCs) in the UK, on a 1km x 1km resolution, from 1750 to 2100. The data from 1970 to 2018 are represented by the UK’s National Atmospheric Emissions Inventory and, as such, the Selected Nomenclature for Air Pollution (SNAP) sector classification system is used throughout the entire time series for consistency (see https://naei.beis.gov.uk/ for details). The work was supported by the UK-SCAPE programme funded by Natural Environmental Research Council National Capability (Award NE/R016429/1) Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/4b392dc0-0219-4494-8420-82e42b93b445

Tags: Environmental Monitoring Facilities, NOx emissions, SSP, UK, atmospheric pollution, historical emissions, metals
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
Soil survey in England, Scotland and Wales carried out during 2013 and 2014 [LTLS]

Data comprise results of a soil survey in England, Scotland and Wales carried out during 2013 and 2014 as part of the NERC Macronutrient Cycles project: LTLS : Analysing and simulating long-term and large-scale interactions of carbon nitrogen and phosphorus in UK land, freshwater and atmosphere. The data include bulk density measurements, charcoal and coal determinations, site locations and sampling dates, site vegetation data, soil chemistry and isotope data, soil classifications, information on soil cores collected and soil texture data. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/17bebd7e-d342-49fd-b631-841ff148ecb0

Tags: LOI, Soil, macronutrients, soil classification, soil core, survey
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
Coastal Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability (CBESS) soil electrical conductivity on salt marsh sites at Morecambe Bay and Essex

The dataset comprises the electrical conductivity of a 10 gram soil sample from the top 5 centimetre (cm) of soil taken within each 1metre (m) x 1m quadrat. 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. The Morecambe Bay samples were taken during the winter and summer of 2013. The Essex samples were taken during the winter, early spring 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/e763d84c-8ac2-4be5-8598-b2cf801367ce

Tags: BESS (Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainab, CBESS (Coastal Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service , Electrical conductivity, Habitats and Biotopes, Salinity, Soil
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
Conwy Catchment - Nant Y Brwyn Discharge dataset (2008-2011)

Discharge data and in-stream temperature for a peatland headwater stream of the Conwy catchment, North Wales are presented from March 2008 until July 2011. The stream for which the data represents is the Nant y Brwyn situated on the Migneint blanket bog within Snowdonia National Park. The purpose of the data is to calculate annual run-off estimates for the Nant y Brwyn catchment and to provide support for estimating fluvial carbon fluxes. Note: there are gaps in this data set due to equipment/battery failures and/or freezing of the stream. Note dates added to dataset name on 22/06/2017 Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/cd7db09f-edf6-4b06-b878-f1be6c649e3a

Tags: Conwy Catchment, Environmental Monitoring Facilities
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
Freshwater macroinvertebrate family abundances in spring and autumn, England, 2002-2019

This data file contains processed data derived from the Environment Agency's Ecology and Fish Explorer Macroinvertebrate database. The recorded data is the abundance of freshwater macroinvertebrates taken by the Environment Agency (EA). The data were collected from sites throughout England, between 2002-2019, from March to May, and September to November. Samples were collected using three-minute kick-samples, whereby a net is used to catch invertebrates and debris flowing downstream of an area in a river which is disturbed by a recorder for three minutes. Data before 2002 were excluded as abundance of macroinvertebrates was not recorded widely before this year. The data were originally collected for the purpose of understanding water quality by the Environment Agency. The original EA data contains raw counts of mixed-taxonomic groupings of invertebrates and some diatoms and other taxa, from rivers in England with multiple sampling methodologies. Here, the derived data has been processed in such a way to combine counts at a single taxonomic level (family) containing only taxonomic groups of interest for the research, and the data are limited to one sampling method. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/f6b9b2b3-1ad0-4ac1-a19b-bb340427fbf1

Tags: Environmental Monitoring Facilities, Freshwater, Macroinvertebrates , caddis flies, damselflies, dragonflies, mayflies, stoneflies, worms
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
Soil particle size distributions and CO2 fluxes of permafrost soils from the North West Territories and Yukon, Canada, 2019-2020

This dataset contains information on the soil particle size distribution and the 12 & 13 CO2 fluxes from varying permafrost soil types and horizons sampled from the North West Territories and Yukon, Canada in 2019 and 2020. The soils were used in a continuous labelling experiment with live Agrostis capillaris growing into them with corresponding root-free controls. The recorded flux data is used to derive the rhizosphere priming effect in the tested soils. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/a80c688c-0a91-41ce-a8e9-89479a38a566

Tags: 13C labelling, Canada, Northwest Territories, Soil, Yukon, permafrost, rhizosphere priming, soil carbon fluxes, soil particle size
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
Catchment attributes and hydro-meteorological timeseries for 671 catchments across Great Britain (CAMELS-GB)

This dataset provides hydro-meteorological timeseries and landscape attributes for 671 catchments across Great Britain. It collates river flows, catchment attributes and catchment boundaries from the UK National River Flow Archive together with a suite of new meteorological timeseries and catchment attributes. Daily timeseries for the time period 1st October 1970 to the 30th September 2015 are provided for a range of hydro-meteorological data (including rainfall, potential evapotranspiration, temperature, radiation, humidity and flow). A comprehensive set of catchment attributes are quantified describing a range of catchment characteristics including topography, climate, hydrology, land cover, soils, hydrogeology, human influences and discharge uncertainty. This dataset is intended for the community as a freely available, easily accessible dataset to use in a wide range of environmental data and modelling analyses. A research paper (Coxon et al, CAMELS-GB: Hydrometeorological time series and landscape attributes for 671 catchments in Great Britain) describing the dataset in detail will be made available in Earth System Science Data (https://www.earth-system-science-data.net/). Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/8344e4f3-d2ea-44f5-8afa-86d2987543a9

Tags: Hydrography, human influence, topography
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
Energy and carbon dioxide fluxes, meteorology and soil physics observed at INCOMPASS land surface stations in India, 2016 to 2017

Eddy covariance (EC) observations of surface-atmosphere exchanges of sensible heat and latent heat, momentum and net ecosystem carbon dioxide exchange were measured at thirty minute resolution at three Land Surface Stations in India. The dataset includes ancillary weather and soil physics observations, as well as variables describing atmospheric turbulence and the quality of the turbulent flux observations. Meteorological observations include: the net radiation and its incoming and outgoing short- and long-wave components, air temperature, barometric pressure, relative humidity, wind speed and direction, and rainfall. Soil physics observations include: Soil heat fluxes, soil temperatures and soil volumetric water content. Observations were collected under the Interaction of Convective Organization and Monsoon Precipitation, Atmosphere, Surface and Sea (INCOMPASS) Project between January 2016 and January 2018. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/78c64025-1f8d-431c-bdeb-e69a5877d2ed

Tags: CO2 exchange, CO2 flux, INCOMPASS, INteraction of Convective Organisation with Monsoo, atmospheric turbulence, barometric pressure, carbon dioxide exchange, carbon dioxide flux, eddy covariance , latent heat, monsoon, net radiation, rainfall, relative humidity, sensible heat, soil heat flux, soil temperature, soil volumetric water content, surface flux, wind direction, wind speed
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
Habitat suitability maps for Rhododendron ponticum across Scotland as reservoir host for Phytophthora

These spatial layers quantify the predicted habitat suitability for Rhododendron ponticum across Scotland. These layers were developed with reference to this species role as reservoir host for Phytophthora plant pathogens, but should have value for management of Rhododendron ponticum as a problematic invasive species. The models were developed by combining biological records of R. ponticum with climate, soil, elevation and woodland cover data. The dataset contains averaged estimates for R. ponticum presence, associated standard deviation for each estimate and locations where environmental conditions in the study region strayed too far from the training set data. This research was funded by the Scottish Government under research contract CR/2008/55, 'Study of the epidemiology of Phytophthora ramorum and Phytophthora kernoviae in managed gardens and heathlands in Scotland' and involved collaborators from St Andrews University, Science and Advice for Scottish Agriculture (SASA), Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH), Forest Research, Forestry Commission and Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH). Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/b984a173-8d80-4781-8a53-bef7bcb0d198

Tags: Habitats and Biotopes
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
Derived annual statistics of rainfall, streamflow and acidity for the Nant Esgair Garn catchment, Llyn Brianne, Mid Wales, UK. (1982 to 2012)

This dataset comprises of derived annual statistics for measures of rainfall, streamflow, temperature and stream acidity (pH) for a stream, draining a small, approximately 0.6 square kilometres, upland grassland catchment. The stream, Nant Esgair Garn, drains into the Llyn Brianne reservoir, Powys, United Kingdom. The data are for a 31 year period covering 1st April 1982 to 1st April 2012. The streamflow and acidity data are derived from 15 minute resolution observations throughout the calendar year 2013 from associated stream gauging and water quality stations on the Nant Esgair Garn. The monthly rainfall measures presented, were derived from local rain gauges. The monthly temperature measures presented were derived from observations at a weather station near Talgarth, Powys. Routines within the Lancaster University Computer-Aided Program for Time-series Analysis and Identification of Noisy Systems (CAPTAIN) Toolbox for Matlab were used to develop a dynamic model of these data. These models were then used to simulate the 31-year record for which monthly statistics were derived. The statistics were derived to develop greater understanding of the controls on the long-term dynamics of aquatic biodiversity observed by other researchers in this stream. The work was part of the Diversity in Upland River Ecosystem Service Sustainability (DURESS) project, NERC grant NE/J014826/1. Members of staff from the Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University installed, maintained and downloaded the stream gauging and water quality stations and also carried out statistical analysis of the data. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/00185590-537e-40e4-969c-039f44b4dad9

Tags: Acid Grassland, Biodiversity & Ecosystem Service Sustainability (B, CAPTAIN toolbox, Diversity in Upland River Ecosystem Service Sustai, Environmental Monitoring Facilities, Hydrography, Llyn Brianne, Matlab, Nant Rhesfa, Rainfall, Streamflow, Upland Grassland, pH
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
Monitoring data from small mammal trapping in forest habitats in Kenya, 2021-2022

This dataset contains information on the trap-setting operations and the number and species of animals captured during systematic sampling surveys in natural habitats of Kenya between 2021 and 2022. The trapping data include dates of setting, checking and removal at multiple locations. Trapping at each location typically involved 3-5 nights per trap line, but this could vary. The trap lines typically comprised 12 pairs of traps each set 10 metres apart along a transect line, with geographical coordinates for the centre of a pair of traps along the trap line. Animals were primarily captured for tissue collection for genetic analysis (not included in this dataset) to investigate the effectiveness of habitat corridors for promoting movement. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/de1d9de7-c0b9-4e53-b848-334bcf120d2c

Tags: Sherman traps, carnivores, habitat corridors, woodland
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
Cleaned UK rainfall chemistry data (1986-2011)

These data are based on the UK rainfall chemistry data held on the UK-AIR database operated on behalf of Defra (http://uk-air.defra.gov.uk/). A subset of 20 sites was analysed, being those with the longest continuous data record from 1986 to 2011. Rainfall samples from bulk collectors were taken weekly or two-weekly at sites across the UK and analyzed by a central laboratory. The raw reported data contain some samples which were contaminated by bird droppings, or by wind-blown dust, and should not be used to estimate annual or long-term wet deposition at the measurement sites. Some samples were missing for other reasons, such as physical loss of the rain sample prior to analysis. Following identification and removal of contaminated sample data, the missing data were estimated, where possible, using statistical interpolation across both time and space with the GENSTAT procedure MULTMISSING. The final datasets contain the accepted and estimated data values, flagged as appropriate. The data filenames correspond to the sites as listed in the UK-AIR database (Allt a'Mharcaidh, Bannisdale, Barcombe Mills, Bottesford, Eskdalemuir, Flatford Mill, Goonhilly, High Muffles, Hillsborough, Loch Dee, Lough Navar, Preston Montford, Pumlumon, Stoke Ferry, Strathvaich, Thorganby, Tycanol Wood,Wardlow Hay Cop, Whiteadder, Yarner Wood). This cleaned dataset was prepared by Neil Cape, Ron Smith and David Leaver at CEH Edinburgh on behalf of Defra and the Devolved Administrations under the project Pollutant Deposition Processes. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/ada39609-ddec-4cbe-85c2-4fdd6bd774d7

Tags: Allt a'Mharcaidh, Bannisdale, Barcombe Mills, Bottesford, Environmental Monitoring Facilities, Eskdalemuir, Flatford Mill, Goonhilly, High Muffles, Hillsborough, Loch Dee, Lough Navar, PrecipNet, Preston Montford, Pumlumon, Stoke Ferry, Strathvaich, Thorganby, Tycanol Wood, UK National Rainfall Chemistry Network, Wardlow Hay Cop, Whiteadder, Yarner Wood, cleaned dataset, rainfall chemistry
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
Carbon dioxide and methane fluxes with associated environmental observations from a plantation forest to bog restoration site, Talaheel, Forsinard Flows RSPB Reserve, Scotland, 2015-2022

[THIS DATASET HAS BEEN WITHDRAWN]. This dataset contains measurements of carbon dioxide gas exchange over a site restored from plantation forest to peat in 1997/1998, in the Flow Country, Caithness and Sutherland. It contains eddy-covariance and associated meteorological and pedological measurements from 2015-08-19 11:00 to 2022-12-31 at half-hourly intervals. The carbon dioxide time series has been gap-filled to allow the calculation of annual budgets for carbon exchange. The site reference is UK-THE ( http://www.europe-fluxdata.eu/home/sites-list ) Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/2922a694-fcaf-4046-b490-d80ce33b8ae8

Tags: Environmental Monitoring Facilities, NEE, blanket bog
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
Decadal maps of multiple alternative future land use based on UK Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (UK-SSPs) and climate projections (UK-RCPs)

The data describes future land use projections at 1 km^2 resolution developed by CRAFTY-GB. For each of six Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSP-RCP) scenarios, gridded land use maps for Great Britain are provided, each as a stacked raster file with seven bands representing land use at each decadal timestep, from 2020 to 2080. CRAFTY-GB is a new agent-based model of the British land system operating at a 1 km^2 resolution and based on a broad range of available land system data . The model is based on linked UK-RCP climate scenarios and UK-SSPs socio-economic pathway (SSP) scenarios, based on global SSPs developed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). It extrapolates the impact of these on the British Land system at decadal timesteps from 2020-2080. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/f9ab3051-4f85-415f-b691-371ff8e951f2

Tags: ABM, Agent-based modelling, Great Britain, IPCC, Land Use, RCP, Representative Concentration Pathways, SSP, Shared Socioeconomic Pathway, Socio-ecological, UK-SCAPE
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
Sedimentological data from the Limpopo River Basin dams, southern Africa, 2018-2021

The data set contains grain size distributions, organic matter (OM) content and trace metal distribution (including Fe, Zn, Cu, Cr and Pb) of 37 shallow cores of sediments sampled from dams across the Limpopo River Basin. The dams include: Gaborone, Lotsane and Shashe dams in Botswana; Houtrivier, Nwanedi and Mutshedzi dams in South Africa; Ripple Creek and Zhovhe dams in Zimbabwe; and Massingir Dam in Mozambique. Data from two cores sampled from an oxbow lake in Mozambique are also included. The cores were collected with a gravity corer using PVC pipes of 5 cm diameter by a team from Botswana International University of Science and Technology (BIUST) led by Dr. Franchi between July 2018 and April 2021. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/b8db8239-3bde-454a-aa75-d1cec24c8763

Tags:  sediments geochemistry, Houtrivier dam, Lotsane dam, Mutshedzi dam, Nwanedi dam, Ripple Creek dam, Zhovhe dam, grain size
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
Soil, site and tree characteristics for acute oak decline (AOD) symptomatic and non-symptomatic oak in three UK woodlands, southern England, 2016

This dataset contains information on tree, site and soil properties from three oak woodland sites in southern England: Writtle Forest, Monks Wood, and Stratfield Brake. Data were collected in 2016 to investigate the relationship between Acute Oak Decline (AOD) symptoms and local environmental factors. The study included 10 symptomatic and 10 asymptomatic trees at each site. Tree characteristics include latitude and longitude coordinates, species-level classification (based on morphological measurements and genetic SNP analysis confirming identity as Quercus robur, Quercus petraea, or hybrids), tree dimensions (height, diameter at 1.35 m, crown dimensions), crown condition (density reduction), and rooting depth. Data on the surrounding site context were also collected, including depth to gleying, basal area of surrounding stands (measured at 0-20 m and 20-40 m), compound topographic index, and tree social status (e.g., dominant, codominant, suppressed). Soil characteristics were analysed to capture both physical and chemical properties. Physical properties included texture and bulk density, while chemical analyses measured organic matter content, pH, total carbon and nitrogen, mineral nitrogen (nitrate and ammonium), 'Olsen' extractable phosphorus, cation exchange capacity, and concentrations of exchangeable cations. The work was supported by the grant BB/N022831/1 ('PuRpOsE') with additional funding from the Woodland Trust, Bartlett's Tree Experts and The University of Reading. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/9947ccc9-7396-4821-b095-c374bd857305

Tags: Acute Oak Decline, England, Forest Mensuration, Habitats and Biotopes, Soil Properties, gleying
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre