7c2b2878-1d15-4ddd-9d7e-cf50bd65f652 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 2025-11-13T16:24:09 UK GEMINI 2.3 OSGB 1936 / British National Grid Understory herbaceous plant cover in secondary woodlands on the Isle of Wight, 2021 2023-02-13 publication https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/7c2b2878-1d15-4ddd-9d7e-cf50bd65f652 10.5285/7c2b2878-1d15-4ddd-9d7e-cf50bd65f652 doi: 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 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 Hughes, S. University of Leeds Bs17smh@leeds.ac.uk author Kunin, B. University of Leeds G.Ziv@leeds.ac.uk author Ziv, G. University of Leeds G.Ziv@leeds.ac.uk author Watts, K. Forest Research Kevin.Watts@forestresearch.gov.uk author NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher Hughes, S. University of Leeds Bs17smh@leeds.ac.uk pointOfContact University of Leeds Bs17smh@leeds.ac.uk owner Habitats and Biotopes theme GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication Colonisation credit woodland understory plants woodland creation ancient woodlands 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: 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 textTable English utf8 biota 2021-05-01 2021-06-30 -1.722 -0.849 50.476 50.872 Comma-separated values (CSV) NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/7c2b2878-1d15-4ddd-9d7e-cf50bd65f652 Download the data Download a copy of this data download https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/7c2b2878-1d15-4ddd-9d7e-cf50bd65f652.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 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.