Welsh Topsoil Meso-fauna Counts from 300 Land Use Sites 2013-2014

Wales soil meso-fauna data includes counts of collembola and acari collected from topsoil across a range of land use types. The data was gathered from 300 stratified random 1km square sites as part of the Glastir Monitoring and Evaluation Programme, managed by the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology.

Use Cases

• Analyze meso-fauna count distributions across different land use types in Wales.
• Model relationships between collembola and acari populations within sampled topsoil.
• Assess the environmental impact of the Glastir agri-environment scheme using baseline soil fauna data from 2013-2014.

Strengths

• Sampling based on a stratified random design of 300 sites across Wales.
• Data collected as part of a formal government monitoring programme (GMEP) from 2013 to 2016.

Limitations

• Specific row count, column names, and sample data are unavailable, limiting immediate analytical scope.
• Data is temporally limited to the 2013-2014 period of the wider programme.

Provenance

Source

Environmental Information Data Centre

Collection Method

Field survey based on stratified random sampling design.

Time Range

2013-2014

Freshness

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Geography

Wales