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Habitat, vegetation, tree and soil data from Native Pinewoods in Scotland, 1971

Publisher
Environmental Information Data Centre
Updated
30 July 2026
Topic
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Summary

A set of data arising from a detailed ecological survey of the native Scots Pine woodland habitats within Scotland. In all, 27 woods from throughout Scotland were identified as the major remaining native pinewoods, and within each wood 16 randomly selected 200m2 plots were surveyed (26 of the woods were surveyed in 1971, with 1 extra wood surveyed in 1972). Details about the trees, ground flora, soil, habitat types as well as general plot information were collected for each plot using standardized procedures and coding systems. The survey was carried out by the Nature Conservancy, a forerunner of the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/56a48373-771c-4d4a-8b5a-45ef496c6e55

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Source Metadata
XML, HTML
Date added
24 July 2026
Harvest GUID
56a48373-771c-4d4a-8b5a-45ef496c6e55
Extent (Latitude)
60.861° to 54.634°
Extent (Longitude)
-8.648° to -0.728°
Dataset reference date (publication)
2015-09-23
Dataset reference date (creation)
1971-12-01
Frequency of update
notPlanned
Access constraints
© UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Responsible party
Institute of Terrestrial Ecology (author); (author, pointOfContact, publisher, owner, custodian)
ISO 19139 resource type
dataset
Metadata language
eng