Articles | Volume 10, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-1843-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-1843-2018
16 Oct 2018
 | 16 Oct 2018

Environmental conditions of a salt-marsh biodiversity experiment on the island of Spiekeroog (Germany)

Oliver Zielinski, Daniela Meier, Kertu Lõhmus, Thorsten Balke, Michael Kleyer, and Helmut Hillebrand

Data sets

Continuous meteorological observations at BEFmate automatic weather station, Spiekeroog, Germany, 2014-11 to 2017-04 Zielinski, O., Meier, D., and Hillebrand, H. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.870988

Continuous temperature observations in surface sediment within BEFmate experimental islands and saltmarsh control plots at different elevation levels, Spiekeroog, Germany, 2014-09 to 2017-04 Zielinski, O., Meier, D., Kleyer, M., and Hillebrand, H. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.877257

Continuous wave and tide observations at BEFmate experimental islands in the back-barrier tidal flat, Spiekeroog, Germany, 2014-10 to 2017-04 Zielinski, O., Meier, D., Kleyer, M., and Hillebrand, H. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.877258

Continuous current observations at BEFmate experimental islands in the back-barrier tidal flat, Spiekeroog, Germany, 2013-11 to 2015-10 Zielinski, O., Meier, D., Kleyer, M., and Hillebrand, H. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.877265

Continuous porewater salinity observations within BEFmate experimental islands and saltmarsh control plots, Spiekeroog, Germany, 2015-05 to 2017-04 Zielinski, O., Meier, D., Kleyer, M., and Hillebrand, H. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.877266

Continuous light intensity observations within BEFmate experimental islands and saltmarsh control plots at different elevation levels, Spiekeroog, Germany, 2014-09 to 2017-04 Zielinski, O., Meier, D., Kleyer, M., and Hillebrand, H. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.877256

Continuous water level observations within BEFmate experimental islands and saltmarsh control plots at different elevation levels, Spiekeroog, Germany, 2014-09 to 2017-04 Zielinski, O., Meier, D., Kleyer, M., Hillebrand, H. https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.877267

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Short summary
An experiment for biodiversity–ecosystem functioning at the intersection of land and sea was set up in the intertidal zone of the back-barrier salt marsh of Spiekeroog Island in the German Bight. Here we report the accompanying instrumentation, maintenance, data acquisition, data handling and data quality control as well as monitoring results observed over a continuous period from September 2014 to April 2017.