BGS Hosted Metadata
Countryside Survey 1978 vegetation plot data
This dataset consists of plant species presence and abundance in different sizes and types of plots from 256 1km x 1km square sites surveyed across Great Britain in 1978. Many of the plots were repeated in 1990, 1998 and 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/10.5285/67bbfabb-d981-4ced-b7e7-225205de9c96
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- Date (Publication)
- 2014-03-04
- Citation identifier
- CEH:EIDC: / 1390493726292
- Citation identifier
- https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/67bbfabb-d981-4ced-b7e7-225205de9c96
- Citation identifier
- doi: / 10.5285/67bbfabb-d981-4ced-b7e7-225205de9c96
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Barr, C.J., Bunce, R.G.H., Smart, S.M., Whittaker, H.A. (2014). Countryside Survey 1978 vegetation plot data. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/67bbfabb-d981-4ced-b7e7-225205de9c96
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Wood, C.
Point of contact Institute of Terrestrial Ecology
Barr, C.J.
Author Institute of Terrestrial Ecology
Bunce, R.G.H.
Author Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Smart, S.M. Author Institute of Terrestrial Ecology
Whittaker, H.A.
Author NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Custodian NERC Environmental Information Data Centre Publisher UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Owner
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Environmental Monitoring Facilities
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- Keywords
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- Environmental survey
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Great Britain
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plants
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vegetation
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- no limitations
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© Database Right/Copyright UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. All rights reserved.
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The following acknowledgement shall be used on all copies of the data, publications and reports, including use in presentations to any audience. 'Countryside Survey data owned by NERC Centre for Ecology & Hydrology'
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If you reuse this data, you should cite: Barr, C.J., Bunce, R.G.H., Smart, S.M., Whittaker, H.A. (2014). Countryside Survey 1978 vegetation plot data. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/67bbfabb-d981-4ced-b7e7-225205de9c96
- Spatial representation type
- Text, table
- Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Biota
- Begin date
- 1977-07-01
- End date
- 1978-10-31
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- Unique resource identifier
- OSGB 1936 / British National Grid
- Distribution format
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Name Version Comma-separated values (CSV)
- Distributor contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
Distributor
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Protocol Linkage Name https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/67bbfabb-d981-4ced-b7e7-225205de9c96 Download the data
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/67bbfabb-d981-4ced-b7e7-225205de9c96.zip Supporting Information
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- Dataset
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dataset
Conformance result
- 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
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
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The data were recorded onto paper field sheets in the summer of 1978 by surveyors (a few sites were surveyed in 1977). Data were recorded from 256 1km squares sited across Britain, selected by random stratified sample. The survey was managed by the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology (which later became part of the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology). Standard Countryside Survey methodology was applied (refer to the online documentation).
Metadata
- File identifier
- 67bbfabb-d981-4ced-b7e7-225205de9c96 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- 8859 Part 1
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
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dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-11-13T16:24:00
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
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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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