Coastal Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability (CBESS) soil bulk density from three soil depths on salt marsh sites at Morecambe Bay and Essex

The dataset comprises the bulk density taken from bulk density rings (3.1 centimetre (cm) height, 7.5 cm diameter) within each 1metre (m) x 1m quadrat. Samples were taken vertically at three depths within each quadrat to roughly quantify the following zones: 0 -10 cm, 10 - 20 cm and 20 - 30 cm. 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. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/814be4cf-0ff2-46dd-b296-c4d9b913b6e4

本数据集涵盖了从每个1米x1米的样方内取样的土壤体积密度（体积密度环高度为3.1厘米，直径为7.5厘米）。在每个样方内，沿垂直方向在三个不同深度（0-10厘米、10-20厘米和20-30厘米）进行采样，以大致量化以下区域。采样在六个盐沼地点进行，这些地点分别位于英格兰西北部的默西姆湾和英格兰东南部的埃塞克斯，涵盖了四个空间尺度：1米（最小采样单元）嵌套在1-10米、10-100米和100-1000米的递增尺度层次中。其中三个地点位于默西姆湾，其余三个地点位于埃塞克斯。默西姆湾的样本采集于2013年的冬季和夏季，而埃塞克斯的样本采集于2013年的冬季、早春和夏季。该数据收集作为沿海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）计划的支持。BESS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委员会（BBSRC）资助，作为英国“与环境共存”（LWEC）计划的一部分。关于本数据集的详细信息可在以下链接找到：https://doi.org/10.5285/814be4cf-0ff2-46dd-b296-c4d9b913b6e4