Description of peatland sites included in the compilation of carbon accumulation rates (NERC grant NE/I012915/1)

Description of peatland sites included in the compilation of carbon accumulation rates, including resolution (high, low), interpolation (yes/no), contributor name, country, lon, lat, peatland type, dominant plant type, no. of dates used in the last millenium carbon accumulation rate calculation, and problems with the data. Peatland sites at northern hemisphere high and mid latitudes (260), tropical (30) and southern hemisphere high latitudes (7 sites).

Date (Creation): 2015-12

Citation identifier: http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13607084

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
University of Exeter	Professor Dan Charman	not available	Point of contact
University of Exeter	Dr Angela Gallego-Sala	not available	Point of contact

Maintenance and update frequency: notApplicable

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Geology

BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences

NGDC Deposited Data

dataCentre

NGDC Deposited Data

Keywords

NERC_DDC

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Other constraints: no limitations

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Language: English

Topic category

Geoscientific information

Geographic identifier: WORLD [id=100000]
British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Geographical hierarchy from Geosaurus 1979 creation

End date: 2015-12 Before

Supplemental Information: NERC grant lead award NE/I012915/1, child grants NE/I013776/1 and NE/I012281/1

Reference System Information

No information provided.

Distribution format

Name	Version

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://www.nature.com/articles/srep28758

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2015.05.012

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://www.bgs.ac.uk/services/ngdc/accessions/index.html#item72769

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Other: dataset

Conformance result

Title: INSPIRE Implementing rules laying down technical arrangements for the interoperability and harmonisation of Geology

Date (Publication): 2011

Explanation: See the referenced specification

Pass: No

Conformance result

Title: Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services