Pasture Farm Vegetation and Soil Metrics Across Great Britain, 2018

Great Britain pasture-fed livestock farms contributed field-level data on vegetation species, soil quality metrics, and farm management practices in 2018. The dataset was collected by the UK Centre of Ecology & Hydrology for a BBSRC-funded project to assess impacts on grassland sward composition and soil quality.

Use Cases

• Analyze relationships between soil quality metrics and recorded vegetation species characteristics.
• Model the influence of documented farm management practices on grassland sward composition.
• Assess geographic variation in vegetation characteristics and soil metrics across Great Britain.

Strengths

• Data collected in 2018 from farms across the entire geographic scope of Great Britain.
• Includes multiple data types: vegetation species, soil quality metrics, and farm management aspects.
• Project funded by BBSRC and conducted by the UK Centre of Ecology & Hydrology.

Limitations

• Sample size and number of data rows are unknown.
• Data is from a single year (2018), limiting longitudinal analysis.
• Data scope is restricted to farms within the Pasture Fed Livestock Association (PFLA).

Provenance

Source

Environmental Information Data Centre

Collection Method

Field data collection from a single field on each sampled farm.

Time Range

2018

Freshness

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Geography

Great Britain