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Countryside Survey 1978 vegetation plot data

Publisher
Environmental Information Data Centre
Updated
30 July 2026
Topic
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Licence
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Summary

This dataset consists of plant species presence and abundance in different sizes and types of plots from 256 1km x 1km square sites surveyed across Great Britain in 1978. Many of the plots were repeated in 1990, 1998 and 2007. General information about the plot was recorded including plot number and type as well as species presence and (usually) cover. Data were collected under the Countryside Survey long term monitoring project managed by the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/67bbfabb-d981-4ced-b7e7-225205de9c96

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Source Metadata
XML, HTML
Date added
25 July 2026
Harvest GUID
67bbfabb-d981-4ced-b7e7-225205de9c96
Extent (Latitude)
60.861° to 49.864°
Extent (Longitude)
-8.648° to 1.768°
Dataset reference date (publication)
2014-03-04
Frequency of update
notPlanned
Access constraints
© Database Right/Copyright UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. All rights reserved.
Responsible party
Institute of Terrestrial Ecology (author); (author, pointOfContact, publisher, owner, custodian)
ISO 19139 resource type
dataset
Metadata language
eng