Identification

Title

UK Biodiversity Indicator C3a, Status of UK habitats of European importance

Abstract

This spreadsheet is the underlying data for the biodiversity indicator C3a, Status of UK habitats of European importance. Article 17 of the European Union Habitats Directive requires Member States to report every six years on progress made with maintaining and/or restoring favourable conservation status for habitat types and species of community interest. These are habitats and species for which the UK has European-level conservation responsibilities. Details of exactly what information is to be delivered is laid out in the report format and guidance notes. Each assessment needs to conclude whether the habitat is in one of the following states: - Favourable - Unfavourable-Inadequate - Unfavourable-Bad - Unknown However, it is likely to take time before habitats move from unfavourable conservation status to favourable conservation status, so for the unfavourable assessments, an assessment of trend is made to determine if the habitat is improving, declining, or stable. This is one of a suite of 24 UK biodiversity indicators published by JNCC on behalf of Defra; the latest publication date was 19 January 2016 - for indicator C3a the latest data are for 2013. The supporting technical document details the methodology used to create the indicator.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

http://jncc.defra.gov.uk/page-4239

name: page-4239

Unique resource identifier

code

e67877e2-c3a9-4656-8b24-f893a6039bd6

codeSpace

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Additional information source

http://jncc.defra.gov.uk/page-4239 Data set supported by a Word document (C3a - Status of UK habitats of European importance.docx) containing all of the website text, four jpeg images (UKBI2015_C3ai_Final.jpg, UKBI2015_C3aii_2007_Final.jpg, UKBI2015_C3aiii_2013_Final.jpg, UKBI2015_C3aiv_Final.jpg,), and a technical document (UKBI2015_TechBG_C3a-C3b_Final.docx) detailing the methodology used to create the indicator.

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

environment

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Marine

Terrestrial

UK Biodiversity

Evidence

Biodiversity

Habitats Directive - Annex I

Article 17

conservation status

indicator

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-8.65

East bounding longitude

2.0

North bounding latitude

61.0

South bounding latitude

49.77

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

2007

End position

2013

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2016-01-19

Frequency of update

Quality and validity

Lineage

Source: UK Habitats Directive (Article 17) reports 2007 and 2013.

Conformity

Data format

name of format

Microsoft Excel for Windows

version of format

Unknown

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Use constraints

Released under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Attribution statement "Contains public sector information from the UK Habitats Directive (Article 17) reports 2007 and 2013, licenced under the Open Government Licence v3.0"

Limitations on public access

No limitations

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

organisation name

Digital and Data Solutions, JNCC

email address

data@jncc.gov.uk

responsible party role

distributor

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

Digital and Data Solutions, JNCC

email address

data@jncc.gov.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2018-05-17

Metadata language