Identification

Title

B-Lines East

Alternative title(s)

Abstract

Polygon of Eastern network for Buglife's national B-Lines initiativeto focus the creation/restoration of wildflower habitats and help reverse pollinator declines. The East network includes 3km corridors for the following counties: Lincs, Leics, Rut, Notts, Norf, Suff, Cambs, Beds, Northants, Essex, Herts, Bucks, Oxon Attribution statement: Attribution statement: © Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right [year].

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/data.defra.gov.uk/NatureCons/NE_Eastern_B_lines_With_Links_region.zip

protocol: WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download

name:

description: Amazon Cloud

Unique resource identifier

code

57ebd6a8-08d0-46c6-9253-547c27854df6

codeSpace

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/27700

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

environment

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

OpenData

NEbatch2

Keyword set

keyword value

Habitats and biotopes

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2018-07-25

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-1.70103

East bounding longitude

1.76765

North bounding latitude

53.72460000000001

South bounding latitude

51.4676

Extent

Extent group

authority code

code identifying the extent

http://data.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/doc/country/england

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

2016-01-30

End position

2016-04-30

Dataset reference date

date type

creation

effective date

2016-03-01

date type

publication

effective date

2016-05-24

Frequency of update

notPlanned

Quality and validity

Lineage

Habitat data was collected from relevant records centres and organisations, including Natural England's publicly available data. Relevant habitats within these datasets were then assigned a value for pollinators as either key or beneficial, and buffered accordingly (key within SSSI= 500m; key outside SSSI= 250m; beneficial within SSSI= 250m; beneficial outside SSSI= unbuffered). These buffered polygons were then merged to create a single layer of 'core B-Lines habitat'. A resistance layer was then produced using the CEH Landcover 2007 data, assigning a score for each habitat on ease for pollinators to move across the landscape (e.g. permeability). The freeware Linkage Mapper software then analysed the connections between these habitats, considering the resistance layer, producing an output of the best potential connections between habitat patches while considering barriers to movement. A0 maps were then created showing these connections and used at workshops with local experts from a range of organisations and interest groups to create a B-Lines network for each county. These routes were drawn onto A0 maps as simple lines using marker pens by the workshop attendees using the mapped connections to inform them, combined with their own knowlege of habitats on the ground, opportunities and barriers to B-Line delivery. These proposed B-Lines were then digitised, buffered to create 3km corridors and a process of consultation and refinement undertaken involving moving, adding and removing lines to produce a final B-Lines network. The final network contains no habitat or site data.

Conformity

Data format

name of format

Open format | Shapefile (SHP)

version of format

ArcMap 10.2.2

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Use constraints

Open Government Licence

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

There are no public access constraints to this data. Use of this data is subject to the licence identified.

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

organisation name

Natural England

email address

data.services@naturalengland.org.uk

web address

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/natural-england

description: Natural England Website

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

Natural England

email address

data.services@naturalengland.org.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2020-03-19

Metadata language