07896bb2-7078-468c-b56d-fb8b41d47065 English ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1) dataset dataset NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg Lancaster LA1 4AP UK info@eidc.ac.uk https://eidc.ac.uk/ EIDC website The Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC) is the UK's national data centre for terrestrial and freshwater sciences. information pointOfContact 2025-11-13T16:18:00 UK GEMINI 2.3 OSGB 1936 / British National Grid Countryside Survey 1998 vegetation plot data 2014-03-03 publication https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/07896bb2-7078-468c-b56d-fb8b41d47065 10.5285/07896bb2-7078-468c-b56d-fb8b41d47065 doi: Barr, C.J., Bunce, R.G.H., Gillespie, M.K., Howard, D.C., Maskell, L.C., Norton, L.R., Scott, R.J., Shield, E.R., Smart, S.M., Stuart, R.C., Watkins, J.W., Wood, C.M. (2014). Countryside Survey 1998 vegetation plot data. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/07896bb2-7078-468c-b56d-fb8b41d47065 This dataset consists of plant species presence and abundance in different sizes and types of plots from 569 1km x 1km square sites surveyed across Great Britain in 1998 and 1999 (under a project named Countryside Survey 2000). Many of the plots are repeated from surveys in 1978 and 1990 and were surveyed again in 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/10.5285/07896bb2-7078-468c-b56d-fb8b41d47065 Barr, C.J. Institute of Terrestrial Ecology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Bunce, R.G.H. Institute of Terrestrial Ecology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Gillespie, M.K. Institute of Terrestrial Ecology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Howard, D.C. Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Maskell, L.C. Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4006-7755 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Norton, L.R. Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Scott, R.J. Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Shield, E.R. Institute of Terrestrial Ecology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Smart, S.M. Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2750-7832 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Stuart, R.C. Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Watkins, J.W. Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Wood, C.M. Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Wood, C. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk pointOfContact NERC Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk owner notPlanned Environmental Monitoring Facilities theme GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication Great Britain plants vegetation otherRestrictions no limitations otherRestrictions This resource is made available under the terms of the Open Government Licence otherRestrictions © Database Right/Copyright UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. All rights reserved. otherRestrictions All use of CS data must be acknowledged. The following acknowledgement and copyright notice (where applicable), shall be used on all copies of the data, publications and reports, including use in presentations to any audience. 'Acknowledgement: Countryside Survey data owned by NERC - Centre for Ecology & Hydrology' 'Countryside Survey © Database Right/Copyright NERC - Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. All rights reserved.' otherRestrictions If you reuse this data, you should cite: Barr, C.J., Bunce, R.G.H., Gillespie, M.K., Howard, D.C., Maskell, L.C., Norton, L.R., Scott, R.J., Shield, E.R., Smart, S.M., Stuart, R.C., Watkins, J.W., Wood, C.M. (2014). Countryside Survey 1998 vegetation plot data. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/07896bb2-7078-468c-b56d-fb8b41d47065 textTable English utf8 biota 1998-05-01 1999-10-31 -8.648 1.768 49.864 60.861 Comma-separated values (CSV) NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/07896bb2-7078-468c-b56d-fb8b41d47065 Download the data Download a copy of this data download https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/07896bb2-7078-468c-b56d-fb8b41d47065.zip Supporting Information Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset information dataset dataset Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services 2010-12-08 The data were recorded onto paper field sheets in the summer of 1998 by surveyors (a few sites were surveyed in 1999). Data were recorded from 569 1km squares sited across Britain, selected by random stratified sample. The survey was managed by the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (formerly the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology). Standard Countryside Survey methodology was applied (refer to the online documentation).