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CASCADE is a global dataset for 139 extant coccolithophore taxonomic units. CASCADE includes a trait database (size and cellular organic and inorganic carbon contents) and taxonomic-specific global spatiotemporal distributions (Lat/Lon/Depth/Month/Year) of coccolithophore abundance and organic and inorganic carbon stocks. CASCADE covers all ocean basins over the upper 275 meters, spans the years 1964-2019 and includes 33,119 taxonomic-specific abundance observations. Within CASCADE, we characterise the underlying uncertainties due to measurement errors by propagating error estimates between the different studies. Full details of the data set are provided in the associated Scientific Data manuscript. The repository contains five main folders: 1) "Classification", which contains YAML files with synonyms, family-level classifications, and life cycle phase associations and definitions; 2) "Concatenated literature", which contains the merged datasets of size, PIC and POC and which were corrected for taxonomic unit synonyms; 3) "Resampled cellular datasets", which contains the resampled datasets of size, PIC and POC in long format as well as a summary table; 4) "Gridded data sets", which contains gridded datasets of abundance, PIC and POC; 5) "Species lists", which contains spreadsheets of the "common" (>20 obs) and "rare" (<20 obs) species and their number of observations. The CASCADE data set can be easily reproduced using the scripts and data provided in the associated github repository: https://github.com/nanophyto/CASCADE/ (zenodo.12797197) Correspondence to: Joost de Vries, joost.devries@bristol.ac.uk v.0.1.2 has some fixes: 1. The wrongly specified S. neapolitana was removed from synonyms.yml (this species is now S. nana)2. Longitudes were corrected for Guerreiro et al., 20233. A double entry for Dimizia et al., 2015 was fixed4. Units in Sal et al., 2013 were correct to cells/L (previously cells/ml)5. Data from Sal et al., 2013 was re-done, as some species were missing6. Duplicate entries from Baumann et al., 2000 were dropped

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Wheat Biomass for Kherson and Poltava regions in Ukraine The dataset contains Dry Above Ground Biomass (DAM) estimates over the Kherson and Poltava regions in Ukraine for years 2020,2021 and 2022. - Processing:The processing is done using the AgriCarbon-EOv1.5 processing chain, using the TREX processing centre at CNES France.The input remote sensing data are L2A Sentinel-2 surface reflectances provided by the MAJA processing chain based on the Copernicus Sentinel-2 L1C data.The Landcover maps are provided using ML Deep learning based on the Copernicus L2A data.The daily weather data is extracted from ERA5Land products (C3S). -Geophysical variable:Dry Above ground biomass of winter wheat in g/m2. - Extents: * DAM estimates over the Copernicus Sentinel-2 tile 36TWT cover the Kherson region.* DAM estimates over the Copernicus Sentinel-2 tile 36UVA cover the Poltava region. - Spatial resolution:10m resolution estimlates over wheat plots identified in the landcover map. - Temporal coverage:Estimates are provided at the end of the wheat cycle for cycles:* The year 2020 correspond to cycle: 2019-2020* The year 2021 corresponds to cycle : 2020-2021* The year 2022 corresponds to cycle : 2021-2022 - Projection: EPSG:32636 - File content: Each Raster file has 2 bands containing respectively: * band1: mean value of DAM in g/m2. * band2: standard deviation of DAM in g/m2. - List of maps:* Dry_aboveground_biomass_2020_T36TWT_Kherson_Ukraine.tif* Dry_aboveground_biomass_2020_T36UVA_Poltava_Ukraine.tif* Dry_aboveground_biomass_2021_T36TWT_Kherson_Ukraine.tif* Dry_aboveground_biomass_2021_T36UVA_Poltava_Ukraine.tif* Dry_aboveground_biomass_2022_T36TWT_Kherson_Ukraine.tif* Dry_aboveground_biomass_2022_T36UVA_Poltava_Ukraine.tif

The Global Yield Gap Atlas project (GYGA - http://yieldgap.org ) has undertaken a yield gap assessment following the protocol recommended by van Ittersum et. al. (van Ittersum et. al., 2013). This datafile holds the results for rainfed rice.

This dataset contains files produced for and generated from the CCAFS Household Baseline Study carried out in sites in Latin America (Trifinio in Honduras/Guatemala, and Cauca in Colombia) and in South-East Asia (a site in each of Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam) in the latter months of 2014 and the early months of 2015. There are six sites in all (two sites from Trifinio). Before downloading any of the files, particularly the data files, please download and read the CCAFS ReadMe file which is prefixed by the code 0000. To gain access to the GPS coordinates from the restricted files please download and complete the Non-disclosure agreement from the file "0002 Non-Disclosure Agreement 2013-01-20.pdf" and send this to Wiebke Foerch at w.foerch@cgiar.org The study was based on earlier baseline studies carried out in sites in West and East Africa and in South Asia. Data and other files from these earlier studies are available in a separate dataset in this Dataverse archive. (CCAFS Household Baseline Survey 2010-2012). If you are intending to use data from both studies together we suggest you read the file "0001 Questionnaire Differences & Recoding Details 2015-10-29.pdf" which explains differences between the two studies.

The Global Yield Gap Atlas project (GYGA - http://yieldgap.org ) has undertaken a yield gap assessment following the protocol recommended by van Ittersum et. al. (van Ittersum et. al., 2013). This datafile holds the results for rainfed sugarcane.

This dataset gathers data used to determine the temporal variability of couplings between pelagic and benthic habitats for fish assemblages at five periods. Organic matter fluxes were assessed using stable isotopes analysis. Species relative biomass was considered to explore energy fluxes within the fish assemblage

Widespread shrub encroachment is profoundly impacting the structures and functions of global drylands, and precipitation change is assumed to be one of the most critical factors affecting this phenomenon. However, there is little evidence to show how precipitation changes will affect the process. In this study, we conducted a 6-year precipitation manipulation experiment (-30%, ambient, +30%, and +50%) to investigate the effects of precipitation changes on the growth of shrubs and herbaceous plants in a shrub-encroached grassland in Inner Mongolia. We found that the increasing precipitation significantly increased the mean height, coverage, and aboveground biomass of herbaceous species, while the growth of shrub species did not exhibit a significant response to precipitation changes. With increasing precipitation, the relative coverage of shrubs decreased, while that of herbs increased. The native dominant herbaceous plant (Leymus chinensis) with more sensitive maximum photosynthetic rate to the precipitation change, showed higher photosynthetic nitrogen use efficiency and water use efficiency than those of the encroached shrub species (Caragana microphylla) at high soil moisture contents, reflecting that the ecophysiological characteristics of L. chinensis might provide it a competitive advantage under increased precipitation. Our findings suggest that increasing precipitation may slow down shrub encroachment by facilitating herbaceous growth in Mongolian grasslands, and consequently affect the forage value and carbon budget in these ecosystems. 

In order to identify a potential surrogate of planktonic ciliate communities for marine bioassessments and evaluating biological conservations, the different taxonomic/numerical resolutions and taxa as surrogates were studied in Jiaozhou Bay, northern China during a 1-year cycle (June 2007-May 2008).Samples were collected biweekly from a depth of 1 m at each of five sites. A range of physicochemical parameters were also measured in order to determine water quality.The genus- and family-level resolutions maintained sufficient information to evaluate the ecological patterns of the ciliate communities in response to environmental status. The non-loricate oligotrichous ciliate assemblages in both abundance and occurrence may be used as a surrogate of planktonic ciliate communities. Heavy data transformations were an optimal strategy for the species level of planktonic ciliates, while mild data transformations were for the higher. The ordination patterns based on species biomass, occurrence, and biomass/abundance ratio matrices were significantly consistent with that of species abundance data.The results suggest that the use of simplifications at both taxonomic and numerical resolutions are time-efficient and would allow improving sampling strategies of large spatial/temporal scale monitoring programs and biological conservation researches in the marine ecosystem with a relative paucity of scientists.