Coastal Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability (CBESS) total organic carbon in mudflat and saltmarsh habitats

The dataset details organic carbon content of sediments across 6 intertidal sites in the winter and summer of 2013. The data provide a quantitative measure of the organic carbon present within surface sediments (up to a depth of 2 cm). Three sites were located in Essex, South East England and the other 3 in Morecambe Bay, North West England. Each site consisted of a saltmarsh habitat and adjacent mudflat habitat. 22 sampling quadrats were placed in each habitat covering 4 spatial scales. 3 replicate samples of surface sediment were collected at each quadrat. They were then processed for organic carbon content using the Loss on Ignition method (detailed below) Values are expressed as a percentage of the total sample collected. 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/d4e9f0f7-637a-4aa4-b9df-2a4ca5bfaded本数据集记录了2013年冬夏两季6个潮间带站点（intertidal sites）的沉积物有机碳含量（organic carbon content）。其中3个站点位于英格兰东南部埃塞克斯（Essex），剩余3个站点位于英格兰西北部莫克姆湾（Morecambe Bay）。本次数据针对深度不超过2 cm的表层沉积物（surface sediments）中的有机碳开展定量测定。每个站点均包含盐沼生境（saltmarsh habitat）与邻近泥滩生境（mudflat habitat），两类生境中各布设22个采样样方（sampling quadrats），涵盖4类空间尺度；每个样方采集3份表层沉积物重复样本。样本采用灼烧减重法（Loss on Ignition method，详见下文）进行有机碳含量检测，结果以采集总样本的百分比形式表示。本数据隶属于“海岸生物多样性与生态系统服务可持续性（Coastal Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability, CBESS）”项目（项目编号：NE/J015644/1），该项目得到生物多样性与生态系统服务可持续性（Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability, BESS）计划资助。BESS计划是由英国自然环境研究委员会（Natural Environment Research Council, NERC）与英国生物技术与生物科学研究委员会（Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, BBSRC）联合资助的六年期研究计划（2011-2017年），隶属于英国“顺应环境变化（Living with Environmental Change, LWEC）”计划。本数据集的完整详情可通过https://doi.org/10.5285/d4e9f0f7-637a-4aa4-b9df-2a4ca5bfaded查阅。