b984a173-8d80-4781-8a53-bef7bcb0d198 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 2025-11-13T16:23:25 UK GEMINI 2.3 OSGB 1936 / British National Grid Habitat suitability maps for Rhododendron ponticum across Scotland as reservoir host for Phytophthora 2016-07-08 publication 2013-03-31 creation https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/b984a173-8d80-4781-8a53-bef7bcb0d198 10.5285/b984a173-8d80-4781-8a53-bef7bcb0d198 doi: Purse, B.V., Graeser, P., Searle, K., Edwards, C., Harris, C. (2016). Habitat suitability maps for Rhododendron ponticum across Scotland as reservoir host for Phytophthora. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/b984a173-8d80-4781-8a53-bef7bcb0d198 These spatial layers quantify the predicted habitat suitability for Rhododendron ponticum across Scotland. These layers were developed with reference to this species role as reservoir host for Phytophthora plant pathogens, but should have value for management of Rhododendron ponticum as a problematic invasive species. The models were developed by combining biological records of R. ponticum with climate, soil, elevation and woodland cover data. The dataset contains averaged estimates for R. ponticum presence, associated standard deviation for each estimate and locations where environmental conditions in the study region strayed too far from the training set data. This research was funded by the Scottish Government under research contract CR/2008/55, 'Study of the epidemiology of Phytophthora ramorum and Phytophthora kernoviae in managed gardens and heathlands in Scotland' and involved collaborators from St Andrews University, Science and Advice for Scottish Agriculture (SASA), Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH), Forest Research, Forestry Commission and Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH). Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/b984a173-8d80-4781-8a53-bef7bcb0d198 Purse, B. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk pointOfContact Purse, B.V. Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5140-2710 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 Graeser, P. Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Searle, K. Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Edwards, C. Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Harris, C. Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author NERC Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian notPlanned Habitats and Biotopes theme GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication Phytophthora kernoviae Phytophthora ramorum Rhododendron ponticum Wikidata 2012-10-29 creation Scotland GeoNames 2006-01-01 creation Invasive species Modelling otherRestrictions no limitations otherRestrictions This resource is made available under the terms of the Open Government Licence otherRestrictions © Scottish Government otherRestrictions If you reuse this data, you should cite: Purse, B.V., Graeser, P., Searle, K., Edwards, C., Harris, C. (2016). Habitat suitability maps for Rhododendron ponticum across Scotland as reservoir host for Phytophthora. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/b984a173-8d80-4781-8a53-bef7bcb0d198 vector 100 English utf8 environment 1950-01-01 2008-12-31 -8.648 -0.728 54.634 60.861 Esri ArcInfo Coverage Shapefile NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/b984a173-8d80-4781-8a53-bef7bcb0d198 Download the data Download a copy of this data download https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/b984a173-8d80-4781-8a53-bef7bcb0d198.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 Alexandra Schlenzig at SASA provided advice on premise types. Jim McCleod and Steve Albon from the Macaulary Land Use Research Institute provided the soil data. Prof. David Rogers and the Spatial Ecology and Epidemiology Group at Oxford University provided the MODIS data. Adam Butler at Biomathematics and Statistics Scotland (BioSS) provided statistical advice. Local Record Centres and their contributing biological recorders provided the R. ponticum data. Based on previous empirical studies of the habitat associations of R. ponticum, seven environmental predictors were selected apriori for modelling. R. ponticum data and environmental data were to run the Maximum Entropy (MaxEnt; version 3.3.3e) model. MaxEnt was selected to create the suitability maps from amongst Species Distribution Model techniques because it is specialised for presence-only biological records and is consistently competitive with the highest performing methods. More details on the data and model can be found in the supporting documentation.