Barr, C.J. et al

Countryside Survey 1998 vegetation plot data

Name: Countryside Survey 1998 vegetation plot data
Published: 2014-03-03
License: https://eidc.ceh.ac.uk/licences/OGL/plain

https://doi.org/10.5285/07896bb2-7078-468c-b56d-fb8b41d47065 Cite this dataset

This dataset consists of plant species presence and abundance in different sizes and types of plots from 569 1km x 1km square sites surveyed across Great Britain in 1998 and 1999 (under a project named Countryside Survey 2000). Many of the plots are repeated from surveys in 1978 and 1990 and were surveyed again in 2007. General information about the plot was recorded including plot number and type as well as species presence and (usually) cover. Data were collected under the Countryside Survey long term monitoring project managed by the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology.

Publication date: 2014-03-03

Format

Comma-separated values (CSV)

Spatial information

Study area
Spatial representation type: Tabular (text)
Spatial reference system: OSGB 1936 / British National Grid

Temporal information

Temporal extent: 1998-05-01 to 1999-10-31

Provenance & quality

The data were recorded onto paper field sheets in the summer of 1998 by surveyors (a few sites were surveyed in 1999). Data were recorded from 569 1km squares sited across Britain, selected by random stratified sample. The survey was managed by the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (formerly the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology). Standard Countryside Survey methodology was applied (refer to the online documentation).

This dataset is included in the following collections

Countryside Survey 2000

Citations

Caruso, T., Schaefer, I., Monson, F., & Keith, A. M. (2019). Oribatid mites show how climate and latitudinal gradients in organic matter can drive large‐scale biodiversity patterns of soil communities. Journal of Biogeography, 46(3), 611–620. https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.13501

Wood, C. M., Smart, S. M., Bunce, R. G. H., Norton, L. R., Maskell, L. C., Howard, D. C., … Henrys, P. A. (2017). Long-term vegetation monitoring in Great Britain – the Countryside Survey 1978–2007 and beyond. Earth System Science Data, 9(2), 445–459. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-9-445-2017

Harris, C., & Ratnieks, F.L.W. (2021). Clover in agriculture: combined benefits for bees, environment, and farmer. Journal of Insect Conservation, 26(3), 339-357. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10841-021-00358-z

Seaton, F.M., Robinson, D.A., Monteith, D., Lebron, I., Bürkner, P., Tomlinson, S., Emmett, B. A., & Smart, S. M. (2022). Fifty years of reduction in sulphur deposition drives recovery in soil pH and plant communities. In Journal of Ecology (Vol. 111, Issue 2, pp. 464-478). https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.14039

Harris, C., Christopher, R., Humphrey-Ackumey, S., Mercer, R., Ney, P. & Ratnieks, F.L.W. (2023) Pollinator spillover: Hay cutting of grass with white clover, Trifolium repens, displaces bees and increases their abundance in adjacent patches of bramble, Rubus fruticosus. Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment 354, 108581. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agee.2023.108581

Supplemental information

Countryside Survey website

Correspondence/contact details

Claire Wood

UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg
Lancaster
Lancashire
LA1 4AP
UNITED KINGDOM

enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

Authors

Barr, C.J.

Institute of Terrestrial Ecology

Bunce, R.G.H.

Institute of Terrestrial Ecology

Gillespie, M.K.

Institute of Terrestrial Ecology

Howard, D.C.