Table 1 Characteristics of land use contrasts
From: Land use driven change in soil pH affects microbial carbon cycling processes
Site pair ID | Site location | Low intensity contrast | High intensity contrast | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Management | Soil pH | Soil C % | Management | Soil pH | Soil C % | ||
Type 1 land use effect | |||||||
1 | Hertfordshire | Unimproved grassland since 1949 | 6.4 | 3.7 | Intensive: arable | 6.4 | 1.6 |
2 | Hertfordshire | Unimproved grassland since 1949 | 6.6 | 2.8 | Intensive: arable | 6.9 | 1.5 |
3 | Hertfordshire | Unimproved grassland since 1900 | 6.8 | 4 | Intensive: arable | 7.5 | 1 |
4 | Bedfordshire | Unimproved grassland since 2002 | 7 | 1.5 | Intensive: arable | 7.2 | 1 |
5 | Oxfordshire | Unimproved grassland since 1990 | 6.9 | 2.9 | Intensive: arable | 7.4 | 2.3 |
6 | Oxfordshire | Unimproved grassland | 7.5 | 6.3 | Intensive: arable | 7.7 | 2.1 |
7 | Oxfordshire | Unimproved wet grassland | 7.6 | 15.7 | Intensive grassland | 7.6 | 8.8 |
8 | Cambridgeshire | Unimproved grassland | 7.6 | 7.4 | Intensive: arable | 7.9 | 4 |
9 | Devon | Unimproved grassland | 6.7 | 5.1 | Intensive: arable | 6.6 | 4.2 |
10 | Lancashire | Unimproved grassland since before 1980 | 6.7 | 6.3 | Intensive grassland | 6.9 | 5 |
11 | Wiltshirea | Unimproved calcareous grassland since before 1900 | 7.7 | 10.4 | Intensive: arable | 8 | 3.8 |
Type 2 land use effect | |||||||
12 | North Lanarkshire | Unimproved grassland since before 1985 | 5.8 | 6.9 | Intensive: arable | 6.4 | 3.8 |
13 | Devon | Unimproved wet grassland | 5.7 | 13 | Intensive grassland | 6.4 | 9.4 |
14 | Devon | Unimproved wet grassland | 5.3 | 13 | Intensive grassland | 6.4 | 5.7 |
15 | Buckinghamshireb | Unimproved grassland | 6.1 | 5.9 | Intensive: arable | 7.7 | 3.6 |
16 | Dorset | Unimproved grassland | 5.8 | 3.9 | Intensive grassland | 6.8 | 3.7 |
17 | Perthshirea | Unimproved grassland | 5.2 | 23.8 | Intensive grassland | 6.4 | 4.3 |
Type 3 land use effect | |||||||
18 | North Yorkshire | Unimproved grassland | 5.9 | 9 | Intensive grassland | 5.8 | 7.6 |
19 | Devon | Unimproved wet grassland | 5.3 | 9.8 | Intensive grassland | 5.7 | 10.4 |
20 | Devona | Unimproved wet grassland | 5.8 | 17 | Intensive grassland | 5.8 | 4.3 |
21 | Dorset | Unimproved grassland | 5.6 | 5.2 | Intensive grassland | 6.2 | 3.7 |
