Environmental data from native pinewoods in Scotland, 1971
pinewood_env.RdThis is the environmental data from a series of plots across native Scots Pine woodlands in Scotland surveyed in 1971. It contains the approximate location of each site, the soil pH of each plot plus the average annual rainfall, maximum summer temperature and minimum winter temperature from 1941-1970. All climate variables were calculated based upon the HadUK-Grid climate data (Met Office et al., 2022). For more information on the sites see Wood and Bunce (2016). This dataset has been limited to the 265 plots across 25 sites that have soil pH measurements.
Format
A data frame with 265 rows and 10 columns.
- Site_no
The site identifier (25 in total)
- Plot_no
The plot identifier per site
- SitePlot
The unique plot identifier
- OSGR
The 1 km grid reference of each site (OSGB)
- Easting
The Easting of each site (centre position of 1km square, British National Grid)
- Northing
The Northing of each site (centre position of 1km square, British National Grid)
- rainfall
The average annual rainfall in mm
- tasmax_summer
The average maximum temperature in summer in deg Celsius
- tasmin_winter
The average minimum temperature in winter in deg Celsius
- Soil_PH
The soil pH of the top 10cm of soil
References
Wood, C. M., & Bunce, R. G. H. (2016). Ecological survey of the native pinewoods of Scotland 1971. Earth System Science Data, 8(1), 177-189. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-8-177-2016Met Office; Hollis, D.; McCarthy, M.; Kendon, M.; Legg, T. (2022): HadUK-Grid Gridded Climate Observations on a 1km grid over the UK, v1.1.0.0 (1836-2021). NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis, 26 May 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5285/bbca3267dc7d4219af484976734c9527