Carly J. Stevens, Cecelia Duprè, Edu Dorland, Cassandre Gaudnik, David J. G. Gowing, Martin Diekmann, Didier Alard, Roland Bobbink, Emmanuel Corcket, J. Owen Mountford, Vigdis Vandvik, Per Arild Aarrestad, Serge Muller, and Nancy B. Dise. Year. Grassland species composition and biogeochemistry in 153 sites along environmental gradients in Europe. Ecology 92:1544.

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Ecological Archives E092-128-D1.

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Carly J. Stevens
Department of Life Sciences
The Open University
Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA UK
and
Lancaster Environment Centre
Lancaster University
Lancaster, LA1 4YQ UK
E-mail: [email protected]

Cecilia Duprè
Institute of Ecology
FB 2, University of Bremen
Leobener Str., DE-28359 Bremen, Germany

Edu Dorland
Ecology and Biodiversity, Institute of Environmental Biology
Utrecht University
PO Box 80084, 3508 TB Utrecht, The Netherlands
and
KWR Watercycle Research Institute
Postbus 1072
NL-3430 BB Nieuwegein, The Netherlands

Cassandre Gaudnik
Université de Bordeaux
UMR 1202 BioGeCo
Bât B8 RdC, Av des Facultés, F-33405 Talence, France

David J. G. Gowing
Department of Life Sciences
The Open University
Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA UK

Martin Diekmann
Institute of Ecology
FB 2, University of Bremen
Leobener Str., DE-28359 Bremen, Germany

Didier Alard
Université de Bordeaux
UMR 1202 BioGeCo
Bât B8 RdC, Av des Facultés, F-33405 Talence, France

Roland Bobbink
B-WARE Research Centre
Radboud University
PO Box 9010, 6525 ED Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Emmanuel Corcket
Université de Bordeaux
UMR 1202 BioGeCo
Bât B8 RdC, Av des Facultés, F-33405 Talence, France

J. Owen Mountford
Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
MacLean Building, Benson Lane
Crowmarsh Gifford, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, OX10 8BB UK

Vigdis Vandvik
Department of Biology
University of Bergen
Box 7800 N-5020 Bergen, Norway

Per Arild Aarrestad
Norwegian Institute for Nature Research
NO-7485 Trondheim
Norway

Serge Muller
Laboratoire des Interactions Ecotoxicologie, Biodiversité et Ecosystèmes (LIEBE)
UMR CNRS 7146, U.F.R. Sci. F.A., Campus Bridoux
Université Paul Verlaine, Avenue du Général Delestraint F 57070 Metz, France

Nancy B. Dise
Department of Environmental and Geographical Science
Manchester Metropolitan University
Manchester M1 5GD UK

Data Files

environmentaldata.csv -- 30 KB, ASCII text, comma separated. No compression scheme was used.

speciesdata.csv -- 323 KB, ASCII text, comma separated. No compression scheme was used.

Abstract

This data set consists of vascular plant and bryophyte species composition and plant and soil biogeochemical data from 153 acid grasslands located in the Atlantic biogeographic region of Europe. Data were collected between 2002 and 2007. The grasslands all belong to the Violion caninae association and were managed by grazing or cutting but had not received fertilizer inputs. These data provide plant composition from five randomly located 2 × 2 m quadrats at each site with all vascular plants and bryophytes identified to species level with cover estimates for each species. Topsoil and subsoil were collected in each quadrat, and data are provided for pH, metal concentrations, nitrate and ammonium concentrations, total carbon and N, and Olsen extractable phosphorus. Aboveground plant tissues were collected for three species (Rhytidiadelphus squarrosus, Galium saxatile, and Agrostis capillaris), and data are provided for percentage N, carbon, and phosphorus. These data have already been used in a number of research papers focusing on the impacts of atmospheric N deposition on grassland plant community and biogeochemistry. The unique data set presented here provides the opportunity to test theories about the effect of environmental variation on plant communities, biogeochemistry, and plant–soil interactions, as well as spatial ecology and biogeography.

Key words: Acid grasslands; Atlantic region of Europe; plant tissue chemistry; soil chemistry; species composition.

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