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Vegetation plot data from the UKCEH Countryside Survey, Great Britain, 2019
This dataset consists of plant species presence and abundance in different sizes of plots recorded from the first 100 1km squares across Great Britain in 2019, as part of a rolling soil and vegetation monitoring program of 500 1km squares, repeated every 5 years.
The UKCEH Countryside Survey is a unique study or 'audit' of the natural resources of the UK's countryside. The sample sites are chosen from a stratified random sample, based on a 15 by 15 km grid of GB. Surveys have been carried out in 1978, 1984, 1990, 1998 and 2007 by the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) and predecessors, with repeated visits to the majority of squares. The countryside is sampled and surveyed using rigorous scientific methods, allowing us to compare new results with those from previous surveys. In this way, we can detect the gradual and subtle changes that occur in the UK's countryside over time. In addition to vegetation data, soil data are also gathered by the current phase of the Countryside Survey.
This work was supported by the Natural Environment Research Council award number NE/R016429/1 as part of the UK-SCAPE programme delivering National Capability. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/fd6ae272-aeb5-4573-8e8a-7ccfae64f506
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- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Character set
- utf8
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2020-12-08
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2019-12-31
- Identifier
- doi: / 10.5285/fd6ae272-aeb5-4573-8e8a-7ccfae64f506
- Other citation details
- Smart, S.M., Andrews, C., Fitos, E., Garbutt, R.A., Gray, A., Henrys, P.A., Koblizek, E., Pallett, D.W., Robinson, D.A., Rose, R.J., Rowe, R.L., Scarlett, P., Towill, J., Wagner, M., Williams, B., Wood, C.M. (2020). Vegetation plot data from the UKCEH Countryside Survey, Great Britain, 2019. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/fd6ae272-aeb5-4573-8e8a-7ccfae64f506
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- annually
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ()
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- Environmental Monitoring Facilities
- Keywords
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- Environmental survey
- Pollinators
- Biodiversity
- UK-SCAPE
- Great Britain
- vascular plants
- ground flora
- Limitations on Public Access
- otherRestrictions
- Other constraints
- no limitations
- Use constraints
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- Other constraints
- If you reuse this data, you should cite: Smart, S.M., Andrews, C., Fitos, E., Garbutt, R.A., Gray, A., Henrys, P.A., Koblizek, E., Pallett, D.W., Robinson, D.A., Rose, R.J., Rowe, R.L., Scarlett, P., Towill, J., Wagner, M., Williams, B., Wood, C.M. (2020). Vegetation plot data from the UKCEH Countryside Survey, Great Britain, 2019. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/fd6ae272-aeb5-4573-8e8a-7ccfae64f506
- Spatial representation type
- textTable
- Distance
- 1000 urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
- Topic category
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- Biota
- Environment
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- Begin date
- 2019-05-19
- End date
- 2019-09-27
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- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
- The data were recorded using electronic data capture devices in the summer of 2019 by professional, trained surveyors. Data were recorded from 100 x 1km squares sited across Britain, selected by random stratified sample. The survey was managed by the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. Standard Countryside Survey methodology was applied (refer to the online documentation).
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- File identifier
- fd6ae272-aeb5-4573-8e8a-7ccfae64f506 XML
- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Character set
- ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1)
- Resource type
- dataset
- Hierarchy level name
- dataset
- Metadata Date
- 2022-08-03T08:15:28
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
