Identification

Title

Integrated Site Assessment Species Records

Abstract

Integrated Site Assessments are carried out by Natural England staff to assess the condition of notified features on Sites of Special Scientific Interest, and Indicators of Success on Higher Level Stewardship agri-environment schemes. The ISA process integrates surveys for both purposes, so where they co-occur they are usually recorded together. Individual surveys include the recording of a variety of species within SSSI Units and/or Rural Land Register Parcels, as well as other non-biotic measurements such as vegetation structure, which together are used in the assessment of SSSI feature condition, Indicators of Success, or both. Species records are associated with the SSSI units and/or RLR Parcels containing the list of features which are the subject of each part of the ISA survey, so survey 'feature lists' are used to define discrete geographic areas within which the species were recorded. Precise BNG grid references, or eastings and northings, are not recorded for individual species, and the precise extent of the features (usually semi-natual habitats) within the SSSI units and/or RLR parcels is unknown. Each species record is provided with additional attribute information including the list of features assessed, the variable and summary value. Species recorded are mostly vascular plants, often because they are used within ISAs to indicate good or poor habitat condition. Only species that were actually seen are included - there are no 'absence' records. Attribution statement: © Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right [year].

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://data.nbn.org.uk/Datasets/GA001473

name: NBN Gateway (for species records)

function: download

https://data.nbn.org.uk/Datasets/SB000013

name: NBN Gateway (for geographic features)

function: download

Unique resource identifier

code

GA001473

codeSpace

unknown

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

biota

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

site_protection

originating controlled vocabulary

title

GEMET - Concepts, version 2.4

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2010-01-13

Keyword set

keyword value

Protected sites

originating controlled vocabulary

title

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2008-06-01

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-6.55

East bounding longitude

1.81

North bounding latitude

55.83

South bounding latitude

49.83

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

2011-06-22

End position

2015-08-25

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2016-01-26

Frequency of update

notPlanned

Quality and validity

Lineage

Polygon data were combined from separate Site of Special Scientific Interest Units, and Rural Land Register Parcels (anonymised) datasets, according to the combinations of features from each of these two source datasets that make up the individual ISA survey features with species recorded. The species records were extracted from Natural England's ISAT (Integrated Site Assessment Tool) database. ISA surveys are either Rapid (where a walk-over assessment of the features is undertaken) or Detailed (where a walk-over assessment is supplemented by more quantitative measurements taken at a number of sample points), and the method used is specified within the species record attributes. Survey field data are captured using ISAT by members of staff. Natural England maintains a comprehensive set of instructions for surveyors, provides training and support to surveyors, and undertakes internal quality assurance to ensure surveys meet our published Evidence Standard.

Conformity

Data format

name of format

unknown

version of format

unknown

Constraints related to access and use

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.

Constraint set

Use constraints

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

contact position

Enquiries

organisation name

Natural England

full postal address

Foss House, Kings Pool, 1-2 Peasholme Green

York

YO1 7PX

United Kingdom

telephone number

0300 060 3900

email address

OpenData@naturalengland.org.uk

web address

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

responsible party role

custodian

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

contact position

Enquiries

organisation name

Natural England

full postal address

Foss House, Kings Pool, 1-2 Peasholme Green

York

YO1 7PX

United Kingdom

telephone number

0300 060 3900

email address

NaturalEnglandGIDataManagers@naturalengland.org.uk

web address

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

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2016-01-27T20:51:03

Metadata language

eng