Habitat records associated with unstructured species records from the iRecord online survey recording tool, UK, 1812-2024
This dataset provides habitat data from unstructured biological records made through iRecord. This dataset includes records between 1812 and 2024, however the majority of the data is from recent years. Records are from England, the Isle of Man, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and are at 1 km square resolution or more precise. The habitat data was entered by volunteers alongside traditional records of individual taxa, with the taxonomic data being the focus of the record. This dataset includes the year of the recording event (or a year range), the grid reference of the record, whether the taxa associated with the record have been verified as correct, and the European Nature Information System (EUNIS) habitat category recorded. Full details about this dataset can be found at
https://doi.org/10.5285/464dee85-d724-45ed-b9dd-2e7a6f65c7dd
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- Date (Publication)
- 2024-09-12
- Date (Creation)
- 2024-09-12
- Identifier
- doi: / 10.5285/464dee85-d724-45ed-b9dd-2e7a6f65c7dd
- Other citation details
- Hutchinson, R., Harvey, M.C., Roy, D.B. (2024). Habitat records associated with unstructured species records from the iRecord online survey recording tool, UK, 1812-2024. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/464dee85-d724-45ed-b9dd-2e7a6f65c7dd
Point of contact
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
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Hutchinson, R.
https://orcid.org/0009-0001-7901-3052
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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- Species Distribution
- Keywords
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- Biodiversity
- United Kingdom
- England
- Scotland
- Wales
- Northern Ireland
- Isle of Man
- EUNIS
- citizen science
- biological recording
- habitat
- Access constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- no limitations
- Use constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Use constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- If you reuse this data, you should cite: Hutchinson, R., Harvey, M.C., Roy, D.B. (2024). Habitat records associated with unstructured species records from the iRecord online survey recording tool, UK, 1812-2024. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/464dee85-d724-45ed-b9dd-2e7a6f65c7dd
- Spatial representation type
- grid Grid
- Distance
- 1000 urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Character set
- utf8 UTF8
- Topic category
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- Biota
- Begin date
- 1812-01-01
- End date
- 2024-01-01
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- Unique resource identifier
- OSGB 1936 / British National Grid
- Distribution format
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Comma-separated values (CSV)
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Comma-separated values (CSV)
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- Hierarchy level
- dataset Dataset
- Other
- dataset
Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
- Data was entered into iRecord by recorders (most of whom are volunteers), with this dataset only including data from survey forms that support a drop-down menu of EUNIS habitat categories. Examples of these forms include https://irecord.org.uk/enter-casual-record and https://irecord.org.uk/enter-record-list . Verifiers for taxon recording schemes verified the records, focusing on the identification of the species and spatial accuracy. The verification decisions on occurrences within each sample are listed within the dataset. The habitats associated with the records have not been subject to any verification checks and are known to contain some errors (such as coastal habitats being linked to inland species records).
- File identifier
- 464dee85-d724-45ed-b9dd-2e7a6f65c7dd XML
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Character set
- ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1) 8859 Part 1
- Hierarchy level
- dataset Dataset
- Hierarchy level name
- dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-11-13T16:18:38
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
Point of contact
NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg
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Lancaster
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LA1 4AP
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UK
https://eidc.ac.uk/
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NERC Data Catalogue Service