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DOI: 10.5285/c726249f-c2d8-4aeb-9af2-60a40de40be2
title: Coastal Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability (CBESS) soil pH on salt marsh sites at Morecambe Bay and Essex

description: The dataset comprises the pH of a 10 gram soil sample from the top 5 centimetre of soil taken within each 1 metre (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.
description: Soil pH was measured from within each 1metre (m) x 1m quadrat using a combined pH/electrical conductivity probe. The location of the sample sites was determined by randomly allocated quadrats. Results were recorded onto field sheets. These data were transferred into an Excel file. Results were exported as comma separated value files for ingestion into the EIDC. Each site consisted of a rectangular area of saltmarsh between 400 x 500 m to 1000 x 1000 m in size, dependent upon saltmarsh length (parallel to shore) and width (perpendicular to shore), including part of the low, mid and high marsh zones. Twenty two 1 x 1 m quadrats were randomly allocated to each site rectangle using R (R Development Core Team, 2014) to specify four different spatial scales (A = 1 quadrat only, B = 3 quadrats at 1 m to 10 m apart, C = 6 quadrats at 10 m to 100 m apart, D = 12 quadrats at 100 m to 1000 m or site maximum).
DOI: 10.5285/d770b12a-3824-4e40-8da1-930cf9470858
title: DECIPHeR model estimates of daily flow for 1366 gauged catchments in Great Britain (1962-2015) using observed driving data

description: This dataset provides 100 model realisations of daily river flow in cubic metres per second (m3/s) for 1,366 catchments, for the period 1962 to 2015.  The dataset is model output from the DECIPHeR hydrological model driven by observed climate data (CEH-GEAR rainfall and CHESS-PE potential evapotranspiration).  The modelled catchments correspond to locations of National River Flow Archive (NRFA) gauging stations and provide good spatial coverage across the UK.

The dataset was produced as part of MaRIUS (Managing the Risks, Impacts and Uncertainties of drought and water Scarcity) to provide national scale probabilistic flow simulations and predictions for UK drought risk analysis.  MaRIUS was a UK NERC-funded research project (2014-2017) that developed a risk-based approach to drought and water scarcity.
description: The modelled flow data are output from the DECIPHeR hydrological model (Coxon et al, 2019; https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-12-2285-2019).   The meteorological inputs to the model were rainfall from CEH-GEAR (Tanguy et al. 2016; https://doi.org10.5285/33604ea0-c238-4488-813d-0ad9ab7c51ca) and CHESS-PE (Robinson et al, 2016; https://doi.org/10.5285/8baf805d-39ce-4dac-b224-c926ada353b7).

DECIPHeR (V1) was run from 1961-2015 using 100,000 monte carlo model parameter sets.  Model performance was evaluated over a 54 year timeseries (1962-2015) using a multi-objective approach comprising four evaluation metrics.  The evaluation metrics were chosen to quantify the model’s ability to capture a range of hydrologic behaviour including maintaining overall water balance, capturing flow variability, reproducing low and high flows and the timing of flows.  

The top ‘multi-objective’ scoring 100 model simulations for each of the 1,366 gauges are supplied as daily river flow timeseries.  Metadata comprising the model parameters and performance for the 100 ensemble members is also supplied to allow the user to interrogate the performance of the model and assist in the interpretation of the results.

See supporting information document for more details.
DOI: 10.5517/ccdc.csd.cc2pz6gc
title: CCDC 2501683: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination

description: Related Article: Lee J. Higham, Antonio A. Sánchez-Cid, Paul G. Waddell|2025|CSD Communication|||
description: An entry from the Cambridge Structural Database, the world’s repository for small molecule crystal structures. The entry contains experimental data from a crystal diffraction study. The deposited dataset for this entry is freely available from the CCDC and typically includes 3D coordinates, cell parameters, space group, experimental conditions and quality measures.
DOI: 10.5285/75f2072e-f708-46d8-baff-0c6d02d81ede
title: Mortality data for a population of banded mongooses (Mungos mungo) in Mweya, Uganda, 2000-2011

description: This dataset provides details about each time we observed two banded mongoose groups engaging in what ended up being lethal conflict at our field site (Mweya, Uganda) between 2000-2011. The dataset provides information about which group won the contest (measured by which group ran from the location of the fight), which individual died in the battle, whether that individual was in the losing or winning group, and the date. The purpose of this data was to estimate the proportion of mortalities which come from winning groups vs. losing groups. 
description: Collected ad libitum by the banded mongoose research project, on tablets with a specific user interface for data entry. Entries are compiled and checked over by the field manager, before being sent to the University of Exeter. No more processing steps have been applied.
DOI: 10.5285/b14839e5-03e0-43ff-9382-1be2daf3baba
title: Distributed potential recharge projections for the UK, based on UK Climate Projections 2018 (UKCP18) data, from the Enhanced Future Flows and Groundwater (eFLaG) project

description: The dataset contains 2 km resolution gridded daily potential groundwater recharge time series covering the British mainland from the Enhanced Future Flows and Groundwater (eFLaG) project. The data include simulations driven with historical observed climate data (1962-2018) and simulations driven with bias-corrected UKCP18 'Regional' 12km projections.
description: Meteorological data are processed through a model (ZOODRM) that accounts for land use and topography to calculate potential recharge.
DOI: 10.5517/ccdc.csd.cc2pzncq
title: CCDC 2502114: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination

description: Related Article: Jia Feng|2025|CSD Communication|||
description: An entry from the Cambridge Structural Database, the world’s repository for small molecule crystal structures. The entry contains experimental data from a crystal diffraction study. The deposited dataset for this entry is freely available from the CCDC and typically includes 3D coordinates, cell parameters, space group, experimental conditions and quality measures.
DOI: 10.5285/100af68f-78e2-4b9d-86b9-5777a5ef38fa
title: Plant composition in coastal foredunes of Florida and Georgia undergoing recovery from hurricane Irma, 2017

description: This dataset presents plant percentage cover by species, average plant cover and species richness for sites along the foredune area of sites distributed between Cape Canaveral (Florida) and Tybee Island (Georgia), USA. Plant cover by species was sampled on three occasions using 0.5 x 0.5m quadrats distributed along 3 transects at up to 28 sites. Observations were conducted in February 2018, July 2018, and January 2019. The coastline was impacted by Hurricane Irma in October 2017 and the data were collected to look at plant composition in coastal foredunes undergoing recovery from the hurricane. The data were collected as part of NERC grant NE/R016593/1, Resilience of a coastal ecosystem following hurricane Irma.
description: Field surveys were conducted in the foredune area of sites distributed between Cape Canaveral (Florida) and Tybee Island (Georgia), USA. The coastline was impacted by hurricane Irma in October 2017. At each site, transects perpendicular to the shoreline were positioned at ~50m intervals at locations subjectively judged to be representative of the site. At 1m intervals along each transect, from the crest of the foredune to the upper beach, the percentage cover of each plant species was estimated visually within a 0.5 x 0.5m quadrat. The total percentage cover was the sum of all individual species’ covers within a quadrat.
DOI: 10.5285/48456cbf-4873-4a2b-9625-ad22a207c462
title: Yield and physiology data of two African crops exposed to varying ozone concentrations, grown in solardomes, UK, 2019

description: Data are presented from an ozone exposure experiment performed on two African crops. The crops (beans and sweet potato) were exposed to three different levels of ozone in the heated UK CEH Bangor solardomes. The experiment ran from June 2019 to October 2019. The crop plants were grown from seed (beans) or plug plants (sweet potato), in pots in solardomes. The aim of the experiment was to investigate the impact of ozone exposure on the crop yield and plant health.

The dataset comprises of manually collected data on plant physiology, biomass and yield. In addition the automatically logged data of ozone concentration and meteorological variables in the solardomes are presented.

Plant physiology data is stomatal conductance of individual leaves, measured on an ad-hoc basis. The dataset includes the associated data measured by the equipment (relative humidity, leaf temperature, photosynthetically active radiation). Soil moisture of the pots was always measured at the same time, and chlorophyll content of the measured leaf was usually, but not always, determined at the same time.
Yield of beans and sweet potato was determined for each plant.

The ozone and meteorological dataset is complete, but with some gap-filling for short periods when the computer was not logging data.

The work was carried out as part of the NERC funded SUNRISE project (NE/R000131/1).
description: Ozone and Meteorological data was automatically logged by PC, with QA to check that data was within appropriate range, outliers checked for plausibility, and gap-filling where necessary. Plant physiology data was collected on an ad-hoc basis from measurements, with QA to check that data was within appropriate range, with outliers checked for plausibility. Plant biomass and yield data was determined experimentally at the end of the experiment, with QA to check that the data was in appropriate range and outliers checked for plausibility.

Data were exported into Excel spreadsheets and the exported again as comma separated value (.csv files)
DOI: 10.5285/aec8b5b2-642b-41ae-8c30-36a4388411cb
title: Data on the movements of the seabird tick (Ixodes uriae) in an artificial arena

description: This dataset contains data on the movement of the seabird tick, Ixodes uriae, in an artificial arena. 24 adult female and 24 nymphal I. uriae were collected on the Isle of May, Scotland on the 25th-27th March 2014 and 18th July 2013 respectively. Nymphal ticks were taken from boiler suits worn by field workers, and adult female ticks were taken from cracks in the rock face. They were then transported to a laboratory where they were individually placed in an artificial arena, composed of a single A1 piece of paper and 30 cm high walls. Straight line distances moved were then measured at fixed time intervals. This work was part of a NERC-funded PhD project looking at interactions between avian colonial social structure and tick-borne pathogen dynamics.
description: Data on the movements of nymphal ticks were collected by AMN between 19th July-8th August 2013, and data on the movements of adult female ticks were collected by KMW between 4th-11th April 2014. The same arena, in the same location was used for both nymphal and adult female ticks but was enlarged slightly for the latter (nymph: 100 cm x 75 cm, adult female: 100 cm x 87 cm). All experiments were carried out in a laboratory with constant temperature, humidity and light conditions.
DOI: 10.5285/f78b0f29-3df4-4a6c-a096-a1c73828b0a0
title: Isoprene concentration and flux measurements and associated meteorological parameters from Auchencorth Moss, Scotland, June and July, 2015

description: Isoprene flux and concentration measurements made from Auchencorth Moss during the summer of 2015. Isoprene concentrations were measured using a proton transfer reaction mass spectrometer (PTR-MS) and fluxes were calculated using the eddy covariance technique. The dataset includes the supporting meteorology including air temperature, photosynthetically active radiation, wind speed, wind direction, friction velocity, sensible heat flux. 
description: Data were collected at Auchencorth Moss and subsequently stored and post-processed at the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology.

Isoprene concentration measurements were calibrated against a gas standard (uncertainty 5%) and had the instrument background subtracted, which was assessed by sampling air that had passed through a zero air generator.

Isoprene fluxes were calculated using the eddy covariance technique, with corrections for high frequency losses applied. The quality of the data were assessed based on stationarity and integral turbulence statistics. All data were retained except those where insufficient data was recorded during the individual 25 minute averaging periods.
DOI: 10.5285/81b02484-a87e-4a49-baba-678654059091
title: Socioecological data from smallholder oil palm plantations in Selangor, Peninsular Malaysia, 2022

description: This dataset includes results from social and environmental surveys of 27 oil palm smallholders and farms in Selangor, Malaysia. Environmental data includes: information on size of plot, crop type and cover, GPS location, vegetation cover, vegetation height, canopy density, epiphyte cover, soil pH, soil moisture, palm herbivory and palm health. Social data includes information (all anonymised) on: plot area, number of palms, sociodemographic data, plantation management practices applied, knowledge and value assigned to wildlife, and yield. Data were collected from March to September 2022.
description: Environmental and social data were collected in a series of field campaigns, led by researchers from Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) and supported by University of Cambridge. 

Environmental data collection methods included visual inspection of plots to record cover of different crop types, and using handheld GPS units to record plantation boundaries and size of plantations. At four points distributed across the plantation and separated by 20m, we also made direct measurements of vegetation, palm and soil characteristics. These included field readings of canopy openness using a convex spherical densiometer, direct measures of vegetation height and cover (into categories by eye within a 3m x3m area), and field measures of soil pH and moisture using a Suplong probe. We also scored height, health, % epiphyte cover on the trunk, and level of herbivory by eye on the closest palm to each point. We also measured leaf litter depth.

Social data were collected through face to face interviews with smallholders, at a time convenient to the smallholders. Ethical permission for interviews were gained from the University of Cambridge Department of Psychology ethics board before work took place, no information was withheld from participants and full written consent was obtained in advance.

Data were entered digitally by field teams and returned to the University of Cambridge for quality and error checking, and to ensure a standard format.
DOI: 10.5285/86cce079-9410-4948-978a-1c92ff3d604c
title: Surface temperature, surface oxygen, water clarity, water chemistry and phytoplankton chlorophyll a data from Grasmere, 2014 to 2018

description: This is part of an ongoing long-term monitoring dataset of surface temperature, surface oxygen, water clarity, water chemistry and phytoplankton chlorophyll a from fortnightly sampling at Grasmere in Cumbria, England that began in 1968 for some variables. The data have been collected by the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH). The data available to download comprise surface temperature (TEMP) in degree Celsius, surface oxygen saturation (OXYG) in % air-saturation, Secchi depth (SECC) in metres, alkalinity (ALKA) in µg per litre as CaCO3 and pH. Ammonium (NH4N), nitrate (NO3N), soluble reactive phosphate (PO4P), total phosphorus (TOTP), dissolved reactive silicon expressed as SiO2 (SIO2) and phytoplankton chlorophyll a (TOCA) are all given in µg per litre. Measurements are made from a boat at a marked location (buoy) at the deepest part of the lake. When it was not possible to visit the buoy, samples were taken from the shore, thus water samples were not integrated on these occasions, marked as Flag 2. All data are from January 2014 until the end of March 2018. Unfortunately, due to funding shortages, the long-term monitoring of Grasmere ended in March 2018.

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.
description: Measurements are made from a boat at a marked location (buoy) at the deepest part of the lake. When it was not possible to visit the buoy, samples were taken from the shore, thus water samples were not integrated on these occasions (marked as Flag 2). Water samples are based on a sample integrated from 0 to 5 m. Samples were analysed in UKCEH laboratories .
DOI: 10.5285/d6409d40-58fe-4fa7-b7c8-71a105b965b4
title: Woodlands survey site information 1971-2001

description: The dataset consists of slope, aspect, locations, descriptions and habitat categories from plots and sites in 103 woodlands surveyed across Great Britain in 1971 and again over the growing seasons of 2000, 2002 and 2003 (referred to as '2001 survey'), using exactly the same field methods. Data were collected under projects managed by The Nature Conservancy (in 1971) and the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (in 2001). 
description: Data were collected from 103 woodlands by field surveyors employed by The Nature Conservancy, Merlewood Research Station, Cumbria (in 1971) and employed under a project managed by the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (in 2000-2003). Extensive training was undertaken by surveyors. Collected data were double punched into spreadsheets as a form of quality control before being compiled into a database. Data collected are available as 4 separate datasets: flora data, soil data, tree diameter data and site details.
DOI: 10.5285/de62eff7-6ea4-44d7-a015-2eb9b25cf882
title: Taxonomic data, neuropil volume measurements, and mushroom body calyx kenyon cell and synapse counts for Heliconiini butterflies, Central and South America, 2012-2016

description: This dataset contains taxanomic and neuropil volume measurements of wild caught heliconiine butterflies, as well as kenyon cell and synapse counts in the mushroom body calyx of insectory -reared heliconiine butterflies. 
Wild caught butterflies were sampled from five locations in Central and South America between 2012 and 2016. Locations included Costa Rica, Panama, French Guiana, Ecuador, and Peru. These locations covered a range of habitats from dry to wet forest, at elevations from sea level to 2500m. Interspecific data from wild caught individuals include identification to a species level, sex, and body size, as well as volume measurements of the mushroom body structures, central brain, medulla, and antennal lobe. 

Measurements of mushroom body calyx volume, and estimates of Kenyon cell and synapse counts are included for six species of  insectary-reared adult heliconiine butterflies (Agraulis vanilla, dryas iulia, eueides Isabella, heliconius melpmonene, heliconius Hortense, heliconius hecale). Two species (dryas iulia, heliconius charthonia) were also sampled for microglomeruli counts.
This dataset was created as part of a NERC Independent Research Fellowship NE/N014936/1, to analyse the evolutionary expansions in mushroom body size in Heliconius butterflies, compared to their closest relatives.

description: Samples were collected over multiple field seasons across central and south America using a hand-net, fixed in situ and returned to the UK. Fixed samples were then stained with Anti-SYNORF as a primary antibody, cy2 as a secondary antibody, and imaged using confocal microscopy. The resulting images, which highlight boundaries between brain regions, were then segmented using AMIRA software to quantify neuropil volumes. 

Insectary-reared samples were obtained using pupae from commercial supplies. Freshly eclosed butterflies were aged in a controlled temperature room at 28 degrees Celsius with 80% humidity with a 12-hour day/night cycle. The cage was enriched with a natural food resource, supplemented by artificial feeders. Butterflies were sampled six to ten days after emergence.

Kenyon cell counts were estimated using immunohistochemical staining against DAPI, imaged with confocal microscopy. Synapse density estimates were made using higher magnification imaging of Anti-SYNORF stained brains, focusing on the calyx. Total count data was obtained by estimating nuclei density/synapse density within sub-sampled regions of a structure, and then extrapolating across the total volume of the structure.