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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
https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/464dee85-d724-45ed-b9dd-2e7a6f65c7dd
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
Author
  UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Hutchinson, R.
https://orcid.org/0009-0001-7901-3052
Author
  UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Harvey, M.C.
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7512-2449
Author
  UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Roy, D.B.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5147-0331
Point of contact
  UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Hutchinson, R.
https://orcid.org/0009-0001-7901-3052
Custodian
  NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
Publisher
  NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • Species Distribution
Keywords
  • Biodiversity
  • United Kingdom
  • England
  • Scotland
  • Wales
  • Northern Ireland
  • Isle of Man
  • EUNIS
  • citizen science
  • biological recording
  • habitat
Access constraints
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Other constraints
no limitations
Use constraints
otherRestrictions Other restrictions
Other constraints
This resource is available under the terms of the Open Government Licence
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
  • 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
  • Comma-separated values (CSV) ()

Distributor
  NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
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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 , Lancaster , LA1 4AP , UK
https://eidc.ac.uk/
 
 

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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
Species Distribution

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