ITE Land Classification of Great Britain 2007
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The Land Classification 2007 is a classification of Great Britain into a set of 45 environmental strata, termed land classes, to be used as a basis for ecological survey, originally developed by the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology (ITE) in the late 1970s and building upon previous 1990 and 1998 versions. The strata were created from the multivariate analysis of 75 environmental variables, including climatic data, topographic data, human geographical features and geology data. The Land Classification can be used to stratify a wide range of ecological and biogeographical surveys to improve the efficiency of collection, analysis and presentation of information derived from a sample. The Land Classification 2007 provided stratification for the Countryside Survey of Great Britain 2007 and was adjusted from the 1998 version as a consequence of needing to provide National Estimates for habitats for Wales from Countryside Survey 2007 in addition to Scotland and GB as a whole. Both the 1990 version and the 1998 versions are also available.
Publication date: 2007-05-01
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Vector
Spatial reference system
OSGB 1936 / British National Grid
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2007-05-01 to …
Provenance & quality
The 2007 version of the ITE Land Classification was developed from earlier classifications from 1990 and 1998 which used environmental data from all 240,000 km squares in GB to create the stratifications. It contains 45 classes or strata, distributed across Great Britain. Each stratum consists of areas with similar environmental characteristics. The classification differs from the 1998 version by splitting classes in England and creating additional classes in Wales. Further information is provided in the supporting documents available in the Online Resources.
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Bunce, R.G.H.; Barr, C.J.; Clarke, R.T.; Howard, D.C.; Scott, W.A. (2007). ITE Land Classification of Great Britain 2007. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/5f0605e4-aa2a-48ab-b47c-bf5510823e8f
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Redhead, J.W., Woodcock, B.A., Pocock, M.J.O., Pywell, R.F., Vanbergen, A.J., & Oliver, T.H. (2018). Potential landscape-scale pollinator networks across Great Britain: structure, stability and influence of agricultural land cover. Ecology Letters. https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.13157
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
Wood, C.M., & Bunce, R.G.H. (2016). Survey of the terrestrial habitats and vegetation of Shetland, 1974 – a framework for long-term ecological monitoring. Earth System Science Data, 8(1), 89–103. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-8-89-2016
Dyer, R.J., Gillings, S., Pywell, R.F., Fox, R., Roy, D.B., & Oliver, T.H. (2016). Developing a biodiversity-based indicator for large-scale environmental assessment: a case study of proposed shale gas extraction sites in Britain. Journal of Applied Ecology, 54(3), 872–882. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.12784
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
Wood, C.M., Alison, J., Botham, M.S., Burden, A., Edwards, F., Garbutt, R.A., George, P.B.L., Henrys, P.A., Hobson, R., Jarvis, S., Keenan, P., Keith, A.M., Lebron, I., Maskell, L.C., Norton, L.R., Robinson, D.A., Seaton, F.M., Scarlett, P., Siriwardena, G.M., … Emmett, B.A. (2021). Integrated ecological monitoring in Wales: the Glastir Monitoring and Evaluation Programme field survey. Earth System Science Data, 13(8), 4155-4173. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-4155-2021
Upcott, E.V., Henrys, P.A., Redhead, J.W., Jarvis, S.G., & Pywell, R.F. (2023). A new approach to characterising and predicting crop rotations using national-scale annual crop maps. In Science of The Total Environment (Vol. 860, p. 160471). Elsevier BV. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.160471
Correspondence/contact details
Wood, C.M.
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg
Lancaster
Lancashire
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UNITED KINGDOM
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Lancaster
Lancashire
LA1 4AP
UNITED KINGDOM
Authors
Bunce, R.G.H.
Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Barr, C.J.
Unknown
Clarke, R.T.
Bournemouth University
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4494-7450
Scott, W.A.
Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
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