National Plant Monitoring Scheme survey data (2015-2021)
This data resource provides plot-level plant occurrence data for the first seven years (2015-2021) of the National Plant Monitoring Scheme (covering the UK, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man). Data consist of individual observations of plants, and other habitat characteristics, at the metre-scale; observations are accompanied by percentage cover information recorded according to the Domin frequency-abundance scale commonly used in plant community ecology. Other information provided includes the plot type (size, shape, according to the NPMS classification), the volunteer-recorded NPMS habitat, the date of sampling, and information regarding the spatial location of the plot. Information contained within the metadata file should allow users to reconstruct the sampling history (including gaps) of any plot that has been sampled within the NPMS scheme between 2015 and 2021.
This work was supported by the Natural Environment Research Council award number NE/R016429/1 as part of the UK-SCAPE programme delivering National Capability.
Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/e742c94f-82a4-43e7-af14-36b131afe81b
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- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Character set
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- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2022-06-10
- Identifier
- doi: / 10.5285/e742c94f-82a4-43e7-af14-36b131afe81b
- Other citation details
- National Plant Monitoring Scheme (2022). National Plant Monitoring Scheme survey data (2015-2021). NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/e742c94f-82a4-43e7-af14-36b131afe81b
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- Environmental Monitoring Facilities
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- Environmental survey
- National Plant Monitoring Scheme
- NPMS
- UK-SCAPE
- Vegetation
- Habitat
- Environmental monitoring
- Plant community
- Limitations on Public Access
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- Other constraints
- no limitations
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- © UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Joint Nature Conservation Committee, Plantlife, Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland
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- The following acknowledgement is required for use of this dataset: The National Plant Monitoring Scheme (NPMS) is organised and funded by the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland, Plantlife and the Joint Nature Conservation Committee. The NPMS is indebted to all volunteers who contribute data to the scheme.
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- If you reuse this data, you should cite: National Plant Monitoring Scheme (2022). National Plant Monitoring Scheme survey data (2015-2021). NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/e742c94f-82a4-43e7-af14-36b131afe81b
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- textTable
- Distance
- 1 urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
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- Economy
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- Begin date
- 2015-01-01
- End date
- 2021-12-31
- Code
- WGS 84
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- dataset
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- dataset
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- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
- Data are collected directly from volunteers into a custom Indicia database system (www.indicia.org.uk) through the NPMS website (www.npms.org.uk) or app. The Indicia system is built on a PostgreSQL/PostGIS database, and the data presented here were extracted directly from this master database using appropriate SQL queries. See the associated documentation for more information on the broader Quality Assurance processes supporting the NPMS.
Metadata
- File identifier
- e742c94f-82a4-43e7-af14-36b131afe81b 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
- 2022-06-13T14:55:40
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3