Identification

Title

Vegetation surveys of coastal shingle in Great Britain

Abstract

This dataset comprises data from two vegetation surveys which aimed to provide a complete inventory of coastal shingle habitats in Great Britain. The surveys were commissioned by the Nature Conservancy Council in 1987. All major sites containing coastal shingle habitats in Great Britain were covered by this survey. Vegetation was sampled at multiple quadrats within each site; however, for many locations, only a single grid reference is available covering the whole of each site. Survey details: 1) A detailed survey of the whole shingle peninsula of Dungeness, Kent, carried out by Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, London (Ferry, Lodge & Waters 1990) 2) A detailed survey of coastal shingle structures and beaches supporting permanent flora above the strandline (other than Dungeness) in England, Scotland and Wales, carried out by Girton College, Cambridge (Sneddon 1992; Sneddon & Randall 1993)

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://registry.nbnatlas.org/public/show/dr497

name: dr497

Unique resource identifier

code

e4824821-f433-438f-a8cd-7bc60eee469e

codeSpace

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

Marine

Terrestrial

Unclassified

Improve

Coastal

Great Britain

Shingle

Vegetation

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

1988-07

End position

1990-08

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2006-05-11

Frequency of update

Quality and validity

Lineage

Two surveys completed using NVC methodology. NVC quadrat survey was captured into a vespan data format for analysis of biotope types. The vespan files have been converted to an access database by JNCC in 2003.

Conformity

Data format

name of format

Comma Separated Values

version of format

Unknown

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Use constraints

Released 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