Identification

Title

Plant species cover and carabid beetle species counts, 2018, and bird species counts, 2019, in native reforestation, unforested and mature forest areas in the Scottish Highlands

Abstract

Plant and carabid beetle survey data was collected in the summer of 2018 and bird survey data in the summer of 2019 in Glen Affric and Glen Moriston in the Scottish Highlands. Data was collected using a 10 × 10 m plot in each reforestation site for plants and carabid beetles and a 50 m radius plot for birds. The same data was collected in a matched plot in an unforested, grazed area associated with each site and in a matched plot in an unforested area within the fenced site. Five pairs of plots were established in grazed and ungrazed mature Caledonian pineforest, the target of reforestation, to assess the value of the reforestation sites for biodiversity, relative to the unforested state and the target habitat. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/d31bcee5-736b-4aed-bda2-c11cacd5dfc7

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/d31bcee5-736b-4aed-bda2-c11cacd5dfc7

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https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/d31bcee5-736b-4aed-bda2-c11cacd5dfc7.zip

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Unique resource identifier

code

https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/d31bcee5-736b-4aed-bda2-c11cacd5dfc7

codeSpace

doi:

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

Habitats and Biotopes

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

-5.23

East bounding longitude

-4.726

North bounding latitude

57.287

South bounding latitude

57.208

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

2018-06-22

End position

2018-07-05

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2021-05-11

Frequency of update

Quality and validity

Lineage

The sampling design is hierarchical. Sites are the fourteen focal reforestation sites, all sites have associated unforested areas and three sites have associated mature forest. Plots (10 × 10 m for plants and carabids, 50 m radius for birds) were established in each treatment combination, bird surveys were conducted at a subset of ten of the fourteen reforestation sites. Plants were surveyed in each plot using three randomly placed 1 × 1 m quadrats in each plot, the percentage cover of each species was recorded using the DOMIN scale. Carabid beetles were surveyed using six pitfall traps were set per plot, with two traps associated with the location of each plant survey quadrat. Two bird surveys were conducted per plot during different date intervals. All surveys were conducted between 6:00 am and 11.30 am. Surveys were conducted for 15 minutes, after a two minute settling period. Birds were identified visually or by songs/calls.

Conformity

Conformity report

specification

title

Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-12-08

degree

explanation

Data format

name of format

Comma-separated values (CSV)

version of format

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

If you reuse this data, you should cite: Warner, E., Lewis, O.T., Hector, A., Brown, N., Green, R., Savory, A., Gilbert, D., McDonnell, A. (2021). Plant species cover and carabid beetle species counts, 2018, and bird species counts, 2019, in native reforestation, unforested and mature forest areas in the Scottish Highlands. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/d31bcee5-736b-4aed-bda2-c11cacd5dfc7

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

organisation name

Department of Plant Sciences, University of Oxford

email address

emily.warner@plants.ox.ac.uk

web address

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2236-9725

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