464dee85-d724-45ed-b9dd-2e7a6f65c7dd 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 2025-11-13T16:18:38 UK GEMINI 2.3 OSGB 1936 / British National Grid Habitat records associated with unstructured species records from the iRecord online survey recording tool, UK, 1812-2024 2024-09-12 publication 2024-09-12 creation https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/464dee85-d724-45ed-b9dd-2e7a6f65c7dd 10.5285/464dee85-d724-45ed-b9dd-2e7a6f65c7dd doi: Hutchinson, R., Harvey, M.C., Roy, D.B. (2024). Habitat records associated with unstructured species records from the iRecord online survey recording tool, UK, 1812-2024. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/464dee85-d724-45ed-b9dd-2e7a6f65c7dd This dataset provides habitat data from unstructured biological records made through iRecord. This dataset includes records between 1812 and 2024, however the majority of the data is from recent years. Records are from England, the Isle of Man, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and are at 1 km square resolution or more precise. The habitat data was entered by volunteers alongside traditional records of individual taxa, with the taxonomic data being the focus of the record. This dataset includes the year of the recording event (or a year range), the grid reference of the record, whether the taxa associated with the record have been verified as correct, and the European Nature Information System (EUNIS) habitat category recorded. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/464dee85-d724-45ed-b9dd-2e7a6f65c7dd Hutchinson, R. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0009-0001-7901-3052 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 Harvey, M.C. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7512-2449 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 Roy, D.B. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5147-0331 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 Hutchinson, R. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0009-0001-7901-3052 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 pointOfContact NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher Species Distribution theme GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication Biodiversity United Kingdom England Scotland Wales Northern Ireland Isle of Man EUNIS citizen science biological recording habitat 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: Hutchinson, R., Harvey, M.C., Roy, D.B. (2024). Habitat records associated with unstructured species records from the iRecord online survey recording tool, UK, 1812-2024. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/464dee85-d724-45ed-b9dd-2e7a6f65c7dd grid 1000 English utf8 biota 1812-01-01 2024-01-01 -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/464dee85-d724-45ed-b9dd-2e7a6f65c7dd Download the data Download a copy of this data download https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/464dee85-d724-45ed-b9dd-2e7a6f65c7dd.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 Data was entered into iRecord by recorders (most of whom are volunteers), with this dataset only including data from survey forms that support a drop-down menu of EUNIS habitat categories. Examples of these forms include https://irecord.org.uk/enter-casual-record and https://irecord.org.uk/enter-record-list . Verifiers for taxon recording schemes verified the records, focusing on the identification of the species and spatial accuracy. The verification decisions on occurrences within each sample are listed within the dataset. The habitats associated with the records have not been subject to any verification checks and are known to contain some errors (such as coastal habitats being linked to inland species records).