Date (Publication)

2025-09-30

Identifier

https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/33caba6a-6547-4740-9cd5-aa787b7c418e

Identifier

doi: / 10.5285/33caba6a-6547-4740-9cd5-aa787b7c418e

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Ridding, L., McCracken, M., Orsler, Z., Upcott, E., Mitschunas, N., Kazlauskis, K., Marshall, Z., Skinner, G., Smart, S., Harrower, C., Pescott, O., Pywell, R., August, T. (2025). Vascular plant survey and questionnaire data evaluating the e-Surveyor mobile application across calcareous, neutral and improved grassland habitats, UK, 2024. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/33caba6a-6547-4740-9cd5-aa787b7c418e

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

• Habitats and Biotopes

GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3

• botany
• habitat
• citizen science
• flowering plant

Keywords

• Biodiversity

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Embargoed

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

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If you reuse this data, you should cite: Ridding, L., McCracken, M., Orsler, Z., Upcott, E., Mitschunas, N., Kazlauskis, K., Marshall, Z., Skinner, G., Smart, S., Harrower, C., Pescott, O., Pywell, R., August, T. (2025). Vascular plant survey and questionnaire data evaluating the e-Surveyor mobile application across calcareous, neutral and improved grassland habitats, UK, 2024. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/33caba6a-6547-4740-9cd5-aa787b7c418e

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Metadata language

EnglishEnglish

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utf8 UTF8

Topic category

• Biota

Begin date

2024-06-01

End date

2024-08-31

Unique resource identifier

OSGB 1936 / British National Grid

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• Comma-separated values (CSV) ()

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Other

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Statement

The data was collected at seven field workshops, with different citizen science groups ranging from 4-10 participants in size. Participants were those with an interest in biological recording, wildlife applications or were members of a practical conservation group. At each workshop, participants were introduced to the e-Surveyor application (https://esurveyor.ceh.ac.uk/) before being asked to undertake a "Record a habitat" survey. Each participant recorded their own 25 m2 plot independently, though a small number of plots were recorded by two participants. Each plot recorded by a participant was also surveyed by 2-3 professional expert botanists that worked independently to ensure an accurate full inventory list was collated. Experts recorded a simple abundance using the DAFOR scale (Dominant, Abundant, Frequent, Occasional or Rare) for each vascular plant present, and recorded whether it was flowering. To understand more about the participants' experience of using the application and potential future uses, we created a paper-based questionnaire which was given to participants after completing their 25 m2 survey at the workshop. Paper data sheets were digitised into Excel and were checked for any anomalies.

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Date stamp

2025-11-13T16:12:51

Metadata standard name

UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version

2.3