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Vegetation plot data from the Environment and Rural Affairs Monitoring & Modelling Programme, Wales, 2021-2023
This dataset includes records of plant species and abundance from within a wide range of land use types across Wales, collected as part of the Environment and Rural Affairs Monitoring & Modelling Programme (ERAMMP) National Field Survey (NFS) between 2021-2023. ERAMMP NFS is a resurvey of all of the 300 locations from the initial Glastir Monitoring and Evaluation Programme (GMEP) monitoring program (300 1km squares) on a rolling annual basis, with the aim to resurvey all sites between 2021 and 2025. Between 2021-2023 ERAMMP National Field Survey resurveyed 225 of those 300 for plant species and abundance. The initial monitoring program, GMEP, was set up by the Welsh Government in 2013 to report national trends and monitor the effects of the Glastir agri-environment scheme on the environment and ran from 2013 to 2016. The field survey element was based on a stratified random sampling design of 300 x 1km square sites across Wales, and was managed by the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/59e3be5c-8ac8-45cd-8e98-a69732755dc6
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- Date (Publication)
- 2025-12-18
- Citation identifier
- https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/59e3be5c-8ac8-45cd-8e98-a69732755dc6
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- doi: / 10.5285/59e3be5c-8ac8-45cd-8e98-a69732755dc6
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Maskell, L.C., Smart, S.M., Brentegani, M., Deacon, A., Emmett, B.A., Fitos, E., Garbutt, A., Lucas, J.R., Monkman, G., Reinsch, S., Richardson-Jones, V., Wallace, H.L., Williams, B., Wood, C.M., Ardeshir, D., Biddle, A., Boffey, C., Cope, S., Forster Brown, C., Fothergill, C., Friend, R., Handley, J., Handley, T., Higgins, A., Scott, H., Shepherd, S., Ward, T., Jan Winder, Jon Winder (2025). Vegetation plot data from the Environment and Rural Affairs Monitoring & Modelling Programme, Wales, 2021-2023. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/59e3be5c-8ac8-45cd-8e98-a69732755dc6
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Environmental Monitoring Facilities
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GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3
- Keywords
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- Biodiversity
- Environmental survey
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Wales
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Environment and Rural Affairs Monitoring & Modelling Programme (ERAMMP)
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vascular plants
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agri-environment scheme
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- no limitations
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© Crown copyright: Welsh Government licenced under the Open Government Licence v3.0
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© Hawlfraint y Goron: Llywodraeth Cymru Mae'r holl gynnwys ar gael dan Drwydded Llywodraeth Agored v3.0
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For the avoidance of doubt, if the publication of the Licensed Data is not within Wales, the Welsh form of the acknowledgement wording is not required.
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If you reuse this data, you should cite: Maskell, L.C., Smart, S.M., Brentegani, M., Deacon, A., Emmett, B.A., Fitos, E., Garbutt, A., Lucas, J.R., Monkman, G., Reinsch, S., Richardson-Jones, V., Wallace, H.L., Williams, B., Wood, C.M., Ardeshir, D., Biddle, A., Boffey, C., Cope, S., Forster Brown, C., Fothergill, C., Friend, R., Handley, J., Handley, T., Higgins, A., Scott, H., Shepherd, S., Ward, T., Jan Winder, Jon Winder (2025). Vegetation plot data from the Environment and Rural Affairs Monitoring & Modelling Programme, Wales, 2021-2023. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/59e3be5c-8ac8-45cd-8e98-a69732755dc6
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- Text, table
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- 10000 urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
- Language
- English
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- UTF8
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- Biota
- Environment
- Begin date
- 2021-01-01
- End date
- 2023-12-31
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- Unique resource identifier
- OSGB 1936 / British National Grid
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Name Version Comma-separated values (CSV)
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
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Protocol Linkage Name https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/59e3be5c-8ac8-45cd-8e98-a69732755dc6.zip Supporting information
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Protocol Linkage Name https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/59e3be5c-8ac8-45cd-8e98-a69732755dc6 Download the data
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dataset
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- Title
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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
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- 2010-12-08
- Statement
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Within each of 225 x 1km sample squares across Wales, a set of vegetation plots of varying sizes were recorded by professional botanists, comprising covers of vascular plants. Data were recorded on electronic recording devices, and then transferred to secure databases at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. To ensure confidentiality of the data with respect to land owners and managers, the locations of 1km squares and survey sites were converted to the centres of the containing 10km Ordnance Survey grid squares.
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- 59e3be5c-8ac8-45cd-8e98-a69732755dc6 XML
- Metadata language
- English
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- 8859 Part 1
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- Dataset
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dataset
- Date stamp
- 2026-01-09T12:10:22
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
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2.3
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Point of contact
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