Microbial biomass measurements from an upland grassland liming experiment [NERC Soil Biodiversity Programme]

These measurements of soil microbial biomass carbon, soil basal respiration rate and metabolic quotient were taken from an experiment set up at the University of Sheffield, using soil from the NERC Soil Biodiversity site at Sourhope.

The work was part of the NERC Soil Biodiversity Thematic Programme, which was established in 1999 and was centred upon the intensive study of a large field experiment located at the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute (now the James Hutton Institute) farm at Sourhope in the Scottish Borders. During the experiment, the site was monitored to assess changes in above-ground biomass production (productivity), species composition and relative abundance (diversity).

本数据集所收录的土壤微生物生物量碳（soil microbial biomass carbon）、土壤基础呼吸速率（soil basal respiration rate）及代谢商（metabolic quotient）测量数据，源自谢菲尔德大学（University of Sheffield）开展的一项实验，实验所用土壤采自索普霍普（Sourhope）的英国自然环境研究委员会（Natural Environment Research Council, NERC）土壤生物多样性样地。
此项研究隶属于1999年设立的NERC土壤生物多样性主题项目，该项目以位于苏格兰边境地区索普霍普麦考利土地利用研究所（现更名为詹姆斯赫顿研究所（James Hutton Institute））农场内的大型野外实验为核心，开展系统性深入研究。实验期间，研究人员对该样地进行监测，以评估地上生物量产量（即生产力）、物种组成及相对丰度（即多样性）的变化情况。