Ecological Status Viewer
The Ecological Status Viewer is a biodiversity index developed by the Biological Records Centre from national plant and animal observations. The purpose of this tool is to provide information which reflects the quality of 10 x 10km cells ('hectads') for biodiversity.
Category
Environmental data and information
Capabilities
The ecological status Viewer is a data explorer which calculates the ecological status for each 10km square of Great Britain and is relative to the Environmental Zone that that square occurs in. An Environmental Zone is a region of broadly similar environmental characteristics and is used here to control for non-biological factors that affect biodiversity (e.g. geology and climate).
Uniqueness
Unique in the UK and unlikely that there are comparable products elsewhere
Partners
The national schemes and societies who have contributed species records to these analyses include the Bees, Wasps and Ants Recording Society, Botanical Society of the British Isles, British Bryological Society, British Myriapod and Isopod Group (Non-marine Isopoda Recording Scheme), British Trust for Ornithology, Butterfly Conservation, Hoverfly Recording Scheme, Ground Beetle Recording Scheme, Ladybird Recording Scheme, National Moth Recording Scheme and the Orthoptera Recording Scheme.
Location
Regions across England, Wales and Scotland
Funding sources
This Ecological Status Viewer was funded by NERC under the SouthWest Tellus Project (http://www.tellusgb.ac.uk/). BRC is funded by UKCEH and the Joint Nature Conservation Committee.
Scale
Landscape or catchment
Last updated
09 April 2025 09:24
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