100af68f-78e2-4b9d-86b9-5777a5ef38fa 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 2025-11-13T16:19:16 UK GEMINI 2.3 WGS 84 / Pseudo-Mercator Plant composition in coastal foredunes of Florida and Georgia undergoing recovery from hurricane Irma, 2017 2022-03-16 publication 2021-03-11 creation https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/100af68f-78e2-4b9d-86b9-5777a5ef38fa 10.5285/100af68f-78e2-4b9d-86b9-5777a5ef38fa doi: Griffin, J.N., Joyce, M. (2022). Plant composition in coastal foredunes of Florida and Georgia undergoing recovery from hurricane Irma, 2017. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/100af68f-78e2-4b9d-86b9-5777a5ef38fa This dataset presents plant percentage cover by species, average plant cover and species richness for sites along the foredune area of sites distributed between Cape Canaveral (Florida) and Tybee Island (Georgia), USA. Plant cover by species was sampled on three occasions using 0.5 x 0.5m quadrats distributed along 3 transects at up to 28 sites. Observations were conducted in February 2018, July 2018, and January 2019. The coastline was impacted by Hurricane Irma in October 2017 and the data were collected to look at plant composition in coastal foredunes undergoing recovery from the hurricane. The data were collected as part of NERC grant NE/R016593/1, Resilience of a coastal ecosystem following hurricane Irma. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/100af68f-78e2-4b9d-86b9-5777a5ef38fa Griffin, J.N. Swansea University j.n.griffin@swansea.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3295-6480 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 Joyce, M. Unaffiliated Mjoyce2@hotmail.com author Griffin, J. Swansea University j.n.griffin@swansea.ac.uk pointOfContact NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian Swansea University j.n.griffin@swansea.ac.uk owner NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher resilience vegetation storm hurricane GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3 2019-01-28 creation Recovery otherRestrictions no limitations otherRestrictions This resource is available under the terms of the Open Government Licence otherRestrictions If you reuse this data, you should cite: Griffin, J.N., Joyce, M. (2022). Plant composition in coastal foredunes of Florida and Georgia undergoing recovery from hurricane Irma, 2017. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/100af68f-78e2-4b9d-86b9-5777a5ef38fa textTable 50 English utf8 biota 2018-02-01 2019-01-31 -87.364 -79.014 23.966 34.923 Comma-separated values (CSV) NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/100af68f-78e2-4b9d-86b9-5777a5ef38fa Download the data Download a copy of this data download https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/100af68f-78e2-4b9d-86b9-5777a5ef38fa.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 Field surveys were conducted in the foredune area of sites distributed between Cape Canaveral (Florida) and Tybee Island (Georgia), USA. The coastline was impacted by hurricane Irma in October 2017. At each site, transects perpendicular to the shoreline were positioned at ~50m intervals at locations subjectively judged to be representative of the site. At 1m intervals along each transect, from the crest of the foredune to the upper beach, the percentage cover of each plant species was estimated visually within a 0.5 x 0.5m quadrat. The total percentage cover was the sum of all individual species’ covers within a quadrat.