NERC Data Catalogue Service
Countryside Survey 1978 vegetation plot data
This dataset consists of plant species presence and abundance in different sizes and types of plots from 256 1km x 1km square sites surveyed across Great Britain in 1978. Many of the plots were repeated in 1990, 1998 and 2007. General information about the plot was recorded including plot number and type as well as species presence and (usually) cover. Data were collected under the Countryside Survey long term monitoring project managed by the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. Full details about this dataset can be found at
https://doi.org/10.5285/67bbfabb-d981-4ced-b7e7-225205de9c96
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- Date (Publication)
- 2014-03-04
- Identifier
- CEH:EIDC: / 1390493726292
- Identifier
- doi: / 10.5285/67bbfabb-d981-4ced-b7e7-225205de9c96
- Other citation details
- Barr, C.J., Bunce, R.G.H., Smart, S.M., Whittaker, H.A. (2014). Countryside Survey 1978 vegetation plot data. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/67bbfabb-d981-4ced-b7e7-225205de9c96
- Maintenance and update frequency
- notPlanned Not planned
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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- Environmental Monitoring Facilities
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- no limitations
- Use constraints
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- Use constraints
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- Other constraints
- © Database Right/Copyright UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. All rights reserved.
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- Other constraints
- The following acknowledgement shall be used on all copies of the data, publications and reports, including use in presentations to any audience. 'Countryside Survey data owned by NERC Centre for Ecology & Hydrology'
- Use constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- If you reuse this data, you should cite: Barr, C.J., Bunce, R.G.H., Smart, S.M., Whittaker, H.A. (2014). Countryside Survey 1978 vegetation plot data. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/67bbfabb-d981-4ced-b7e7-225205de9c96
- Spatial representation type
- textTable Text, table
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Character set
- utf8 UTF8
- Topic category
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- Biota
- Begin date
- 1977-07-01
- End date
- 1978-10-31
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- Unique resource identifier
- OSGB 1936 / British National Grid
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- dataset Dataset
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- dataset
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- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
- The data were recorded onto paper field sheets in the summer of 1978 by surveyors (a few sites were surveyed in 1977). Data were recorded from 256 1km squares sited across Britain, selected by random stratified sample. The survey was managed by the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology (which later became part of the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology). Standard Countryside Survey methodology was applied (refer to the online documentation).
- File identifier
- 67bbfabb-d981-4ced-b7e7-225205de9c96 XML
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Character set
- ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1) 8859 Part 1
- Hierarchy level
- dataset Dataset
- Hierarchy level name
- dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-11-13T16:24:00
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
Point of contact
NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg
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Lancaster
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LA1 4AP
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UK
https://eidc.ac.uk/
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