Bunce, R.G.H.; Carey, P.D.; Maskell, L.C.; Norton, L.R.; Scott, R.J.; Smart, S.M.; Wood, C.M.

Countryside Survey 2007 vegetation plot data

Name: Countryside Survey 2007 vegetation plot data
Published: 2014-03-03
License: https://eidc.ceh.ac.uk/licences/OGL/plain

https://doi.org/10.5285/57f97915-8ff1-473b-8c77-2564cbd747bc Cite this dataset

This dataset consists of plant species presence and abundance in different sizes and types of plots from 591 1km x 1km square sites surveyed across Great Britain in 2007. Many of the plots are repeated from surveys in 1978, 1990 and 1998. 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: 2007-05-01 to 2007-10-31

Provenance & quality

The data were recorded using electronic data capture devices in the summer of 2007 by surveyors. Data were recorded from 591 1km squares sited across Britain, selected by random stratified sample. The survey was managed by the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. Standard Countryside Survey methodology was applied (refer to the online documentation).

This dataset is included in the following collections

Countryside Survey 2007

Citations

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

Gillespie, M. A. K., Baude, M., Biesmeijer, J., Boatman, N., Budge, G. E., Crowe, A., … Kunin, W. E. (2017). A method for the objective selection of landscape-scale study regions and sites at the national level. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 8(11), 1468–1476. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.12779

Metcalfe, H., Hassall, K.L., Boinot, S., & Storkey, J. (2019). The contribution of spatial mass effects to plant diversity in arable fields. Journal of Applied Ecology, 56(7), 1560–1574. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.13414

Bunce, R.G.H., Wood, C.M., & Smart, S.M. (2018). The Ecology of British Upland Landscapes. I.Composition of Landscapes, Habitats, Vegetation and Species. Journal of Landscape Ecology, 11(3), 120-139. https://doi.org/10.2478/jlecol-2018-0015

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

Jones, L., Brennan, G.L., Lowe, A., Creer, S., Ford, C.R., & de Vere, N. (2021). Shifts in honeybee foraging reveal historical changes in floral resources. Communications Biology, 4(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-020-01562-4

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

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