1fb2cda3-cb49-414f-ad84-4a2f88ecce15
English
ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1)
dataset
dataset
Environmental Information Data Centre
Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg
Lancaster
LA1 4AP
UK
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pointOfContact
2021-06-25T18:32:25
UK GEMINI
2.3
OSGB 1936 / British National Grid
Historic grassland survey data with contemporary spatial habitat data for semi-natural grasslands across England
2017-02-28
publication
2016-02-28
creation
https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/1fb2cda3-cb49-414f-ad84-4a2f88ecce15
10.5285/1fb2cda3-cb49-414f-ad84-4a2f88ecce15
doi:
Ridding, L.E., Redhead, J.W., Pywell, R.F. (2017). Historic grassland survey data with contemporary spatial habitat data for semi-natural grasslands across England. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/1fb2cda3-cb49-414f-ad84-4a2f88ecce15
[THIS DATASET HAS BEEN WITHDRAWN]. This dataset compares historic grassland survey data with contemporary spatial data of habitats in England. The NVC community and grassland type were determined for 848 quadrats surveyed at grassland sites in England between 1960 and 1981. A 100m buffer was generated around each individual quadrat which matched the spatial accuracy (±100m) of the quadrat location, to represent a grassland site. These sites were intersected with Natural England's Priority Habitats' Inventory in ArcGIS, to indicate the percentage cover of priority habitats found at the grassland sites in 2013. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/1fb2cda3-cb49-414f-ad84-4a2f88ecce15
Ridding, L.
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
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pointOfContact
NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
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custodian
NERC Environmental Information Data Centre
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publisher
Ridding, L.E.
Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
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author
Redhead, J.W.
Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
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author
Pywell, R.F.
Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
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author
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
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owner
notPlanned
Habitats and Biotopes
theme
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
2008-06-01
publication
Sustainable land management
Grassland
Semi-natural
GIS
SSSI
Improved grassland
NEC05593
otherRestrictions
no limitations
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This resource is made available under the terms of the Open Government Licence
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© UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
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If you reuse this data, you should cite: Ridding, L.E., Redhead, J.W., Pywell, R.F. (2017). Historic grassland survey data with contemporary spatial habitat data for semi-natural grasslands across England. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/1fb2cda3-cb49-414f-ad84-4a2f88ecce15
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100
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environment
1960-01-01
2013-12-31
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49.864
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NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
info@eidc.ac.uk
distributor
https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/1fb2cda3-cb49-414f-ad84-4a2f88ecce15.zip
Supporting information
Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset
information
dataset
dataset
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
2010-12-08
The historic quadrat data was recorded at grassland sites in England between 1960 and 1981, using a standardised methodology. The vegetation in each quadrat was assigned to one of the British National Vegetation Classification (NVC) communities using Tablefit. Quadrats were further classified into one of four grassland types; calcareous grassland, lowland heath and dry acid grassland, mesotrophic grassland and wet grassland. The location of each quadrat surveyed was imported into ESRI ArcGIS v10. A 100m buffer was generated around each individual quadrat to represent a grassland site. To indicate the coverage of semi-natural grassland habitats in 2013, Natural England's Priority Habitats' Inventory was used. The percentage and type of priority habitat contained within each site was calculated in ArcGIS, using the tabulate intersection function in the spatial analyst toolbox. The percentage of each site designated as a SSSI was also calculated using Natural England's digital boundary data for SSSIs.