Vegetation plot data from the Glastir Monitoring and Evaluation Programme, Wales 2013-2016

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This data set includes records of plant species and abundance from within a wide range of land use types across Wales, collected as part of the Glastir Monitoring and Evaluation Programme (GMEP).

The monitoring programme was set up by the Welsh Government in 2013 to monitor the effects of the Glastir agri-environment scheme on the environment and ran from 2013 to 2016.

The field survey element was based on a stratified random sampling design of 300 x 1km square sites across Wales, and was managed by the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology.

Publication date: 2020-02-14

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Format

Comma-separated values (CSV)

Spatial information

Study area

Spatial representation type

Tabular (text)

Spatial reference system

OSGB 1936 / British National Grid

Spatial resolution

10000 metres

Temporal information

Temporal extent

2013-05-01 to 2016-09-23

Provenance & quality

Within each of 300 x 1km sample squares across Wales, a set of vegetation plots of varying sizes were recorded by professional botanists, comprising covers of vascular plants. Data were recorded on electronic recording devices, and then transferred to secure databases at the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology.

To ensure confidentiality of the data with respect to land owners and managers, the locations of 1km squares and survey sites were converted to the centres of the containing 10km Ordnance Survey grid squares.

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This dataset is available under the terms of the Open Government Licence

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Smart, S.M.; Astbury, S.; Burden, A.; Emmett, B.A.; Garbutt, A.; Henrys, P.A.; Maskell, L.C.; Owen, A.; Sharps, K.; Wallace, H.; Williams, B.; Wood, C.M. (2020). Vegetation plot data from the Glastir Monitoring and Evaluation Programme, Wales 2013-2016. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/71d3619c-4439-4c9e-84dc-3ca873d7f5cc

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For the avoidance of doubt, if the publication of the Licensed Data is not within Wales, the Welsh form of the acknowledgement wording is not required.

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Glastir Monitoring and Evaluation Programme, Wales, 2013-2016

Citations

Robinson, D.A., Thomas, A., Reinsch, S., Lebron, I., Feeney, C. J., Maskell, L.C., Wood, C.M., Seaton, F.M., Emmett, B.A., & Cosby, B.J. (2022). Analytical modelling of soil porosity and bulk density across the soil organic matter and land-use continuum. In Scientific Reports (Vol. 12, Issue 1). https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-4155-2021

Harrison, P.A., Beauchamp, K., Cooper, J., Dickie, I., Fitch, A., … Dunford, R. W. (2023). An adaptable integrated modelling platform to support rapidly evolving agricultural and environmental policy. In Environmental Modelling & Software (Vol. 169, p. 105821). Elsevier BV. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2023.105821