Impact of grassland management on biomass production and nutritional quality, invertebrate communities, and soil health in Berkshire (UK) 2009-2012

The dataset describes the effects of different management techniques on grassland biomass production (dry matter yield), nutritional quality (herbage nitrogen content), pollinator communities (abundance and species richness), predatory beetle communities (abundance, species richness and biomass), and soil health (bulk density, total soil carbon and nitrogen). Data was collected from a site in Berkshire (UK), where a field-scale, randomised block experiment had been implemented to investigate how the establishment of a variety of plant functional groups (grasses, legumes, and other flowering forbs) using different cultivation (minimum tillage and deep ploughing) and management (cutting, grazing and their intensity) techniques, affected the provision of various ecosystem services.

本数据集阐明了不同管理技术对草地生物量生产（干物质产量）、营养品质（牧草氮含量）、传粉者群落（丰度与物种丰富度）、捕食性甲虫群落（丰度、物种丰富度与生物量）以及土壤健康（容重、土壤总碳与总氮）的影响。数据采集自英国伯克郡（Berkshire）的一处试验场地，该场地设置了田间尺度随机区组试验（randomised block experiment），旨在探究采用不同耕作方式（少耕（minimum tillage）与深耕（deep ploughing））和管理手段（刈割（cutting）、放牧（grazing）及其强度）构建多样植物功能群（包含禾草类、豆科类及其他开花草本）的方案，如何影响各类生态系统服务的供给。