Coastal Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability (CBESS) surface sediment water content in saltmarsh and mudflat habitats

The dataset details surface sediment water content across six intertidal sites in the winter and summer of 2013. Three of the sites were in Morecambe Bay, North West England and three of the sites were in Essex, South East England. Each of these sites consisted of a saltmarsh area and adjacent mudflat area, with twenty two sampling quadrats placed on each area. Five replicate sediment samples were taken at each quadrat and then freeze dried to give average percentage water content. 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/10.5285/5ffbc89e-ebed-4fdc-9563-bad42f50e8ce

本数据集详细记录了2013年冬季和夏季六个潮间带地点的表层沉积物含水量。其中三个地点位于英格兰西北部的莫克姆湾，另外三个地点位于英格兰东南部的埃塞克斯。每个地点均包括盐沼区域及其相邻的泥滩区域，每个区域均放置了二十二个采样方格。在每个方格内采集了五个重复的沉积物样本，随后进行冷冻干燥处理以获得平均含水量百分比。该数据收集作为海岸生物多样性及生态系统服务可持续性（CBESS）项目的一部分，项目编号为NE/J015644/1。该项目得到了生物多样性及生态系统服务可持续性（BESS）计划的资助。BESS计划是一个为期六年的项目（2011-2017），由英国自然环境研究委员会（NERC）和生物技术与生物科学研究理事会（BBSRC）资助，作为英国“与环境变化共存”（LWEC）计划的一部分。关于该数据集的详细信息可在以下链接找到：https://doi.org/10.5285/5ffbc89e-ebed-4fdc-9563-bad42f50e8ce