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Historic grassland survey data with contemporary spatial habitat data for semi-natural grasslands across England version 2
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- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Character set
- utf8
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2017-04-03
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2017-03-31
- Identifier
- doi: / 10.5285/a75b9569-948a-4bb2-97a5-6863717881c8
- Other citation details
- Ridding, L.E., Redhead, J.W., Pywell, R.F. (2017). Historic grassland survey data with contemporary spatial habitat data for semi-natural grasslands across England version 2. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/a75b9569-948a-4bb2-97a5-6863717881c8
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- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ()
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- Habitats and Biotopes
- Keywords
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- Grassland
- Semi-natural
- GIS
- SSSI
- Improved grassland
- NEC05593
- Limitations on Public Access
- otherRestrictions
- Other constraints
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- Other constraints
- © UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
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- If you reuse this data, you should cite: Ridding, L.E., Redhead, J.W., Pywell, R.F. (2017). Historic grassland survey data with contemporary spatial habitat data for semi-natural grasslands across England version 2. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/a75b9569-948a-4bb2-97a5-6863717881c8
- Spatial representation type
- textTable
- Topic category
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- Environment
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- Begin date
- 1960-01-01
- End date
- 2013-12-31
Distribution Information
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- Quality Scope
- dataset
- Other
- dataset
Report
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
- The historic quadrat data was recorded at grassland sites in England between 1960 and 1981, using a standardised methodology. The vegetation in each quadrat was assigned to one of the British National Vegetation Classification (NVC) communities using Tablefit. Quadrats were further classified into one of four grassland types; calcareous grassland, lowland heath and dry acid grassland, mesotrophic grassland and wet grassland. The location of each quadrat surveyed was imported into ESRI ArcGIS v10. A 100m buffer was generated around each individual quadrat to represent a grassland site. To indicate the coverage of semi-natural grassland habitats in 2013, Natural England's Priority Habitats Inventory was used. The percentage and type of priority habitat contained within each site was calculated in ArcGIS, using the tabulate intersection function in the spatial analyst toolbox. The percentage of each site designated as a SSSI was also calculated using Natural England's digital boundary data for SSSIs.
Metadata
- File identifier
- a75b9569-948a-4bb2-97a5-6863717881c8 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
- 2022-05-20T10:39:09
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
