Soil Chemistry and Gas Emissions Under Oak Decline in Essex, UK, 2022-2023

The Environmental Information Data Centre provides one year of seasonal biogeochemical monitoring from the root zones of English oak trees affected by Acute Oak Decline, Chronic Oak Decline, and healthy control trees in Writtle Woodlands, Essex, UK. Data collected between October 2022 and August 2023 includes soil nutrients, moisture, pH, temperature, litterfall mass and chemistry, greenhouse gas fluxes, and microbial community structure. Measurements were taken from three replicated trees per health status category.

Use Cases

• Modeling temporal changes in soil nitrate and moisture based on high-frequency in situ sensor data.
• Correlating greenhouse gas flux patterns with tree health status based on CO2, CH4, and N2O measurements.
• Analyzing shifts in microbial community structure in relation to soil chemistry based on PLFA profiling data.
• Assessing litterfall nutrient cycling dynamics based on seasonal litter mass and chemical composition data.

Strengths

• Data collection spans one full year from October 2022 to August 2023, capturing seasonal variation.
• Includes eight distinct measurement categories, from soil chemistry to microbial profiling.
• Three replicated trees were monitored per health status category (AOD, COD, healthy).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Environmental Information Data Centre

Collection Method

Seasonal field monitoring and in situ sensor measurements.

Time Range

October 2022 to August 2023

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-07 13:09:51.145684; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Writtle Woodlands, Essex, UK