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Ecological survey of the Spey Valley birch woods, 1973

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

This dataset includes ecological information recorded from within 18 birch woodlands surveyed in the Spey Valley, Scotland between 1971 and 1974. Data collected includes plant species composition in the canopy and ground flora, soil pH, habitat management and a wide range of other descriptors at a site level and in more detail from 16 - 40 200m2 sample plots located at random within the 18 woods. The survey was undertaken by the Nature Conservancy/Institute of Terrestrial Ecology. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/c84961e3-b9dc-4c92-b316-36295b8a3330

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Source Metadata
XML, HTML
Date added
25 July 2026
Harvest GUID
c84961e3-b9dc-4c92-b316-36295b8a3330
Extent (Latitude)
57.728° to 56.68°
Extent (Longitude)
-3.959° to -2.52°
Dataset reference date (publication)
2017-02-01
Dataset reference date (creation)
1974-12-01
Frequency of update
notPlanned
Access constraints
© UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Responsible party
(author, pointOfContact, publisher, owner, custodian); Nature Conservancy (author)
ISO 19139 resource type
dataset
Metadata language
eng