Integrated Site Assessment Species Records

• Published by: Natural England
• Last updated: 28 January 2016
• Topic: Environment
• Licence: Open Government Licence

Summary

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].

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Link to the data	Format	File added	Data preview
NBN Gateway (for geographic features)	HTML	28 January 2016	Not available
NBN Gateway (for species records)	HTML	28 January 2016	Not available

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• Added to data.gov.uk: 2016-01-27
• Access contraints: There are no public access constraints to this data. Use of this data is subject to the licence identified.
• Harvest GUID: 73e3c242-3ef7-45f2-bd62-5ab58411bb23
• Extent: Latitude: 55.83° to 49.83°
• Extent: Longitude: -6.55° to 1.81°
• Dataset reference date: 2016-01-26 (publication)
• Frequency of update: notPlanned
• Responsible party: Natural England (custodian)
• ISO 19139 resource type: dataset
• Metadata language: eng
• Source Metadata: XML
• Source Metadata: HTML

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