1. ABOUT THE DATASET -------------------- Title: Aboveground biomass carbon storage by managed hedgerows Creator(s): Sofia Biffi, Pippa J Chapman, Richard P Grayson, Guy Ziv Organisation(s): School of Geography, University of Leeds, UK Rights-holder(s): Copyright 2023 University of Leeds Publication Year: 2023 Description: This dataset contains dry aboveground biomass (AGB) of managed hedges of different age categories measured via destructive sampling, and their associated carbon (C) stock. Cite as: Biffi S., Chapman, P. J., Grayson, R. P., Ziv G. (2023): Aboveground biomass carbon storage by managed hedgerows. University of Leeds. [Dataset] https://doi.org/10.5518/1337 Related publication: Contact: S.Biffi@leeds.ac.uk 2. TERMS OF USE --------------- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. 3. PROJECT AND FUNDING INFORMATION ---------------------------------- Title: Resilient Dairy Landscapes Dates: 01-01-2018/31-12-2022. Funding organisation: 'Resilience of the UK Food System Programme’ with support from BBSRC, ESRC, NERC and Scottish Government. Grant no.: BB/R005664/1 This project was also supported with funding from Research England’s Quality-related Research Strategic Priorities Funding (QR SPF). 4. CONTENTS ----------- 1 file: Biffi_aboveground_biomass_carbon_2023.csv 20 rows, 8 columns Variables in the dataset are: - section_num: replicate section ID. - hedge_age_class: age category of the hedge. - height_m: height of the hedge in meters. - width_m: width of the hedge in meters. - dry_biomass_kg: oven dry biomass of the one meter section of hedge biomass volume, in kilograms. - stock_C_kgm3: carbon stock of the hedge, in kilograms per cubic meter. - stock_C_Mgha: carbon stock of the hedge, in metric tonnes per hectare. - stock_C_Mgkm: carbon stock of the hedge, in metric tonnes per kilometer of hedgerow, with a hedgerow width of 1.5 meters. 5. METHODS ---------- Each row in the dataset represents one replicate of a 1 m long section of hedge harvested to ground level. The harvesting was conducted in Cumbria, UK, on hedges dominated by hawthorn, with some presence of blackthorn. Hedgerows were divided into four age groups: - 3-6 years old: hedges planted between 2017 and 2020 - 12 years old: hedges planted planted between 2016 and 2010 - 39 years old: mature hedgerows planted in 1987 - Old: mature hedgerows for which the exact year of planting was not known. For more information about the experimental design, see: Biffi, et al. (2023) STOTEN. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.164482