{"access":"NPMS data are published annually through the UKCEH Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC).","capabilities":"NPMS provides leadership, coordination, expert support and underlying infrastructure (including a mobile app) to enable volunteer surveyors to identify and record plant species distributions and abundance.   The NPMS provides an annual survey of 1km squares of British and Irish grids, selected through a stratified-random selection process.  Fixed plots (square of linear plots) are setup within 1km squares, within target habitats (28 categories).  Participants record a set of indicator plants of the full species complement within survey plots, aiming for at least 5 plots per 1km square.  As of 2021, over 1100 participants contribute to the NPMS and over 16,000 habitat samples have been collected.  The NPMS provides a UK biodiversity indicator 'C7 Plants of the wider countryside'.","description":"The purpose of NPMS is to monitor plant species abundance and diversity across UK geographies and habitat types.  The plant biodiversity monitoring scheme is carried out by volunteer surveyors nationwide.  Plant biodiversity sustains healthy ecosystems and the natural resources and services that are essential for human life, health and economic activity.  NPMS data tell us how plants and habitats are responding to changing land use, climate and pollution, and so inform government policy, land management and conservation.","fundingSources":"NPMS funding sources include: JNCC; UKRI-NERC research grants; NERC National Capability LTSS UK-SCaPE programme.","id":"fa6369a5-b6a8-43b3-9958-d74bbd21cb09","infrastructureCategory":{"value":"wildlifeSchemes","description":"Wildlife monitoring schemes","infrastructureClass":"Environmental observatories","uri":"http://vocabs.ceh.ac.uk/ri/wildlifeSchemes"},"infrastructureScale":"UK","lifecycle":"The NPMS was established in 2015 to provide annual surveys of plants, with some earlier data through a pilot phase.","locationText":"The UKCEH contribution to NPMS is co-ordinated from The Biological Records Centre at UKCEH Wallingford and operates across the UK.","metadataDate":"2025-04-09T09:24:17","onlineResources":[{"url":"https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/documents/3c5ce16f-8738-459a-b432-bc01f8f40424","name":"Access data from the EIDC","function":"website","type":"OTHER"},{"url":"https://eidc.ceh.ac.uk/images/browsegraphics/npmslogo.gif","name":"NPMS logo","function":"image","type":"OTHER"}],"owners":[{"displayName":"Oli Pescott","organisationName":"UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology","organisationIdentifier":"https://ror.org/00pggkr55","role":"owner","fullName":"Oli Pescott"}],"resourceIdentifiers":[{"code":"https://catalogue-staging.ceh.ac.uk/id/86848ea3-f670-4257-83f0-3649d0c52b38"},{"code":"https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/fa6369a5-b6a8-43b3-9958-d74bbd21cb09"}],"scienceArea":"Biodiversity","title":"National Plant Monitoring Scheme (NPMS)","type":"infrastructureRecord","uniqueness":"NPMS is complementary to the UKCEH Countryside Survey but unique in a focus on rarer habitats.  It is the only volunteer-based (i.e. citizen science) national programme for monitoring plant communities.","uri":"https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/fa6369a5-b6a8-43b3-9958-d74bbd21cb09","users":["Users of NPMS include: Defra (National Pollinator Strategy) and researchers (studying, for example: enviromental change; insect decline; chemicals in the environment)."]}