4daf9b1e-c29f-4e38-855c-a68063e8e715 English ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1) dataset dataset NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg Lancaster LA1 4AP UK info@eidc.ac.uk https://eidc.ac.uk/ EIDC website The Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC) is the UK's national data centre for terrestrial and freshwater sciences. information pointOfContact 2025-11-13T16:25:39 UK GEMINI 2.3 WGS 84 Plant species cover and vegetation damage from burnt and unburnt areas of the Flow Country, Scotland, autumn 2019, following wildfires in May 2019 and nearby historic wildfire sites from the years 1997, 2000 and 2011 2022-03-23 publication https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/4daf9b1e-c29f-4e38-855c-a68063e8e715 10.5285/4daf9b1e-c29f-4e38-855c-a68063e8e715 doi: Martin-Walker, A., Fernandez-Garcia, P., Hancock, M., Cowie, N., Klein, D., Andersen, R. (2022). Plant species cover and vegetation damage from burnt and unburnt areas of the Flow Country, Scotland, autumn 2019, following wildfires in May 2019 and nearby historic wildfire sites from the years 1997, 2000 and 2011. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/4daf9b1e-c29f-4e38-855c-a68063e8e715 Plot-scale percent cover of all plant species recorded between October and December 2019 in 360 1 x 1 m quadrats within two burnt areas of the 2019 Flow Country Wildfire and nearby unburnt control areas and within three additional historic burnt site with recorded wildfires in 1997, 2000 and 2011 respectively and their respective adjacent unburnt controls. At each site, quadrats were located in both “open” and “drain” plots to reflect the potential impact of artificial drainage on vegetation/fire response. For the sites within the footprint of the 2019 wildfire, fire damage data were also collected, only in burnt sites. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/4daf9b1e-c29f-4e38-855c-a68063e8e715 Martin-Walker, A. Royal Society for the Protection of Birds Alice.Martin-Walker@rspb.org.uk author Fernandez-Garcia, P. Environmental Research Institute paulafgarcia.93@gmail.com author Hancock, M. Royal Society for the Protection of Birds Mark.hancock@rspb.org.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6437-7278 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Cowie, N. Royal Society for the Protection of Birds Neil.cowie@rspb.org.uk author Klein, D. Royal Society for the Protection of Birds Daniela.klein@rspb.org.uk author Andersen, R. Environmental Research Institute roxane.andersen@uhi.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7782-795X ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Andersen, R. Environmental Research Institute roxane.andersen@uhi.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7782-795X ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information pointOfContact NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher University of the Highlands and Islands roxane.andersen@uhi.ac.uk owner Habitats and Biotopes theme GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication peat fire bog vegetation drainage GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3 2019-01-28 creation Scotland Blanket bog wildfire Flow Country peatland hummock hollows otherRestrictions no limitations otherRestrictions This resource is available under the terms of the Open Government Licence otherRestrictions If you reuse this data, you should cite: Martin-Walker, A., Fernandez-Garcia, P., Hancock, M., Cowie, N., Klein, D., Andersen, R. (2022). Plant species cover and vegetation damage from burnt and unburnt areas of the Flow Country, Scotland, autumn 2019, following wildfires in May 2019 and nearby historic wildfire sites from the years 1997, 2000 and 2011. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/4daf9b1e-c29f-4e38-855c-a68063e8e715 textTable English utf8 biota 2019-10-01 2019-12-31 2011-01-01 2011-12-31 2000-01-01 2000-12-31 1997-01-01 1997-12-31 -4.194 -3.654 58.325 58.607 Comma-separated values (CSV) NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/4daf9b1e-c29f-4e38-855c-a68063e8e715 Download the data Download a copy of this data download https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/4daf9b1e-c29f-4e38-855c-a68063e8e715.zip Supporting information Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset information dataset dataset Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services 2010-12-08 At each quadrat, percent cover of plant species was assessed by trained botanists working in pairs, and was recorded onto pre-printed recording sheets in the field. The bottom left corner of the plot was marked with a permanent post to be re-located in the future and a photo of each quadrat was taken. The data was transferred onto an excel spreadsheet by the recorders and quality controlled by two individuals. A very small number of species were unidentifiable in the field and specimens were brought back for further identification. Where the species ID remained uncertain, it was recorded at the genus level.