Dataset landingpage: BioBasis Zackenberg - Abiotics - Soil moisture

This is the landing page for a dataset in the Greenland Ecosystem Monitoring (GEM) database. This page embeds schema.org metadata as JSON-LD, describing the dataset in machine readable and interoperable format.

Dataset specification

  • Title: BioBasis Zackenberg - Abiotics - Soil moisture
  • Description: Data on soil moisture in permanent plant and arthropod plots. For further details, please refer to the newest BioBasis manual available at the website. Abiotics:Abiotics BioBasis Zackenberg:The BioBasis programme monitors the dynamics of organisms and biological processes in the terrestrial and limnic ecosystems at Zackenberg and Nuuk. The BioBasis programme plays a central role in the development and implementation of the Circumpolar Biodiversity Monitoring Programme (CBMP) http://www.caff.is/monitoring across the Arctic.
  • DOI: 10.17897/Z639-K063 - https://doi.org/10.17897/Z639-K063
  • Location/site: Permanent plots - -20.57, 74.47 (lon-lat wgs84)
  • Date span of the dataset: 2009-06-25 - 2021-09-02

Data originator, license and how to download the dataset

The dataset is a product of the Greenland Ecosystem Monitoring program (GEM): https://grid.ac/institutes/grid.507580.f. It is free and open data, licensed with terms of use under the Creative Commons CC-BY-SA license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ When downloading you will automatically get a terms of use document, describing how to cite the data and other important information.

Download the dataset via this link (registration needed): http://data.g-e-m.dk/log-in/data-tables?doi=10.17897/Z639-K063

Variables measured / columns in dataset

ID Name Unit Data Type Description
http://data.g-e-m.dk/datasets?doi=10.17897/Z639-K063&column=Date Date Date Date Date of census
http://data.g-e-m.dk/datasets?doi=10.17897/Z639-K063&column=Plot Plot Text Text Plot ID
http://data.g-e-m.dk/datasets?doi=10.17897/Z639-K063&column=Instrument Instrument Text Text Instrument used for soil moisture measuring.
http://data.g-e-m.dk/datasets?doi=10.17897/Z639-K063&column=100mm 100mm Percent Number Mean soil moisture (% volume) at 100mm below soil surface
http://data.g-e-m.dk/datasets?doi=10.17897/Z639-K063&column=200mm 200mm Percent Number Mean soil moisture (% volume) at 200mm below soil surface
http://data.g-e-m.dk/datasets?doi=10.17897/Z639-K063&column=300mm 300mm Percent Number Mean soil moisture (% volume) at 300mm below soil surface
http://data.g-e-m.dk/datasets?doi=10.17897/Z639-K063&column=400mm 400mm Percent Number Mean soil moisture (% volume) at 400mm below soil surface
http://data.g-e-m.dk/datasets?doi=10.17897/Z639-K063&column=Remarks Remarks Text Text Remarks