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Understory herbaceous plant cover in secondary woodlands on the Isle of Wight, 2021
A species by quadrat matrix showing the percentage cover of understory herbaceous plants in ancient and recent woodlands varying in age and isolation. Percentage cover was calculated for each species individually.
The data was collected on the Isle of Wight, woodlands spanned the entire island and were not situated in one area.
All data was collected in the summer of 2021 over a period of 3 weeks covering the last 2 weeks of may May and the first week of June. This time was chosen as this is when a large subset of woodland plants are in flower.
Woodlands were sampled in blocks of three, each block contains an ancient woodland, a recent woodland adjacent to the ancient woodland and another recent woodland of similar age and size but isolated from the ancient woodland. Each woodland had six quadrats taken, systematically placed at four corners and two in the centre. Within each quadrat the percentage cover of all understory herbs was recorded.
This data was collected to measure the colonisation credit of recently planted woodlands, and to observe how much this might vary under differing degrees of isolation. This data could also be used to compare all sorts of biodiversity metrics between connected and isolated recent woodlands. It could also be used to compare beta diversity metrics between woodlands of varying degrees of isolation
Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/7c2b2878-1d15-4ddd-9d7e-cf50bd65f652
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- English (en)
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- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2023-02-13
- Identifier
- doi: / 10.5285/7c2b2878-1d15-4ddd-9d7e-cf50bd65f652
- Other citation details
- Hughes, S., Kunin, B., Ziv, G., Watts, K. (2023). Understory herbaceous plant cover in secondary woodlands on the Isle of Wight, 2021. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/7c2b2878-1d15-4ddd-9d7e-cf50bd65f652
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- Habitats and Biotopes
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- Colonisation credit
- woodland understory plants
- woodland creation
- ancient woodlands
- Limitations on Public Access
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- no limitations
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- If you reuse this data, you should cite: Hughes, S., Kunin, B., Ziv, G., Watts, K. (2023). Understory herbaceous plant cover in secondary woodlands on the Isle of Wight, 2021. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/7c2b2878-1d15-4ddd-9d7e-cf50bd65f652
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- textTable
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- Biota
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- Begin date
- 2021-05-01
- End date
- 2021-06-30
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- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
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Data were collected in field surveys on the isle of wight during the summer of 2021. Plants were identified using a dichotomous key and percentage cover was estimated subjectively using marks around the quadrat for assistance.
Units in the core matrix of the data is percentage cover, any plant covering less than 5% of the quadrat was marked as <5.
There were no processing steps undertaken on this data, values were typed into csv format straight from the paper.
All quality control had to be undertaken in the field, using a dichotomous key to identify each plant and being careful and consistent with percentage cover estimations ensured all data were correct. However, there may be limitations in that a plant may have been misidentified through human error.
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- 7c2b2878-1d15-4ddd-9d7e-cf50bd65f652 XML
- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Character set
- ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1)
- Resource type
- dataset
- Hierarchy level name
- dataset
- Metadata Date
- 2023-02-16T10:16:09
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
