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Crop growth and aphid populations in winter wheat fields from across Europe

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This is the dataset used for the paper �Enhancing soil organic matter as a route to the ecological intensification of European arable systems� published in the journal Ecosystems. It contains data on aphid abundance, crop morphology and yield from 84 wheat fields across Europe including from the UK, Sweden, Poland, Germany and the Netherlands.

The dataset is made up of 3 parts. The first covers data for three aphid species provided as 'Aphid days per tiller' as a measure of pest pressure. Data on aphid numbers were collected on crop searches across experimental plots three times during the growing season.

The second contains data on crop morphology provided as tiller mass and ear mass as well as yield in tonnes per hectare. All were collected as sub-samples at harvest and oven-dried before weighing.

Thirdly data on a cage study is provided and involved inoculation and caging of sub-plots of crop with S. avenae aphids followed by population growth assessments after 5 days.

Experimental treatments in the study include nitrogen fertiliser application and low and high soil organic carbon. See manuscript for full experimental details.

Alternative title: Cereal aphid, crop morphology and yield data from 84 wheat fields from across 5 European countries
Resource Type: Dataset
Creators: Garratt, Michael ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2137-1017, Bommarco, Riccardo ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8888-0476, van Gils, Stijn ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5036-6970, Martin, Emily ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5785-9105, Redlich, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5609-0576, Steffan-Dewenter, Ingolf ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1359-3944, Switek, Stanislaw, Kleijn, David ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2500-7164, Mortimer, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6160-6741, van der Putten, Wim, Takacs, Victoria, Senapathi, Deepa ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8883-1583 and Potts, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2045-980X
Rights-holders: University of Reading, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Wageningen University and Research (WUR), University of Würzburg, Pozna? University of Life Sciences
Data Publisher: University of Reading
Publication Year: 2018
Data last accessed: 3 December 2024
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17864/1947.136
Metadata Record URL: https://researchdata.reading.ac.uk/id/eprint/136
Organisational units: Life Sciences > School of Agriculture, Policy and Development
Participating Organisations: University of Reading, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW), Wageningen University and Research (WUR), University of Würzburg, Pozna? University of Life Sciences
Keywords: cereal aphids, wheat morphology, wheat yield, fertiliser, soil organic carbon
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Data Availability: OPEN

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