National Plant Monitoring Scheme survey data (2015-2018)

This data resource provides plot-level plant occurrence data for the first four years (2015-2018) of the National Plant Monitoring Scheme (covering the UK, the Channel Islands, and the Isle of Man). Data consist of individual observations of plants, and other habitat characteristics, at the metre-scale; observations are accompanied by percentage cover information recorded according to the Domin frequency-abundance scale commonly used in plant community ecology. Other information provided includes the plot type (size, shape, according to the NPMS classification), the volunteer-recorded NPMS habitat, the date of sampling, and information regarding the spatial location of the plot. Information contained within the metadata file should allow users to reconstruct the sampling history (including gaps) of any plot that has been sampled within the NPMS scheme between 2015 and 2018. This work was supported by the Natural Environment Research Council award number NE/R016429/1 as part of the UK-SCAPE programme delivering National Capability. Please be aware that this dataset is updated annually and that more recent versions exist. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/79604721-049b-42ab-a8d7-a9c8b18a193f

Date (Publication): 2019-07-01

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/79604721-049b-42ab-a8d7-a9c8b18a193f

Citation identifier: doi: / 10.5285/79604721-049b-42ab-a8d7-a9c8b18a193f

Other citation details: Pescott, O.L., Walker, K., Day, J., Harris, F., Roy, D. (2019). National Plant Monitoring Scheme survey data (2015-2018). NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/79604721-049b-42ab-a8d7-a9c8b18a193f

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology	Pescott, O.L.	enquiries@ceh.ac.uk	Point of contact
NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre		info@eidc.ac.uk	Custodian
NERC Environmental Information Data Centre		info@eidc.ac.uk	Publisher
Centre for Ecology & Hydrology	Pescott, O.L.	enquiries@ceh.ac.uk	Author
Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland	Walker, K.	kevin.walker@bsbi.org	Author
Joint Nature Conservation Committee	Day, J.	Julie.Day@jncc.gov.uk	Author
Plantlife	Harris, F.	Felicity.Harris@plantlife.org.uk	Author
Centre for Ecology & Hydrology	Roy, D.	enquiries@ceh.ac.uk	Author

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NPMS
National Plant Monitoring Scheme
UK-SCAPE

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Other constraints: This resource is available under the terms of the Open Government Licence

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Other constraints: © UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

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Other constraints: © Joint Nature Conservation Committee

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Other constraints: © Plantlife

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Other constraints: © Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland

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Other constraints: The following acknowledgement is required for use of this dataset: The National Plant Monitoring Scheme (NPMS) is organised and funded by the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland, Plantlife and the Joint Nature Conservation Committee. The NPMS is indebted to all volunteers who contribute data to the scheme.

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Other constraints: If you reuse this data, you should cite: Pescott, O.L., Walker, K., Day, J., Harris, F., Roy, D. (2019). National Plant Monitoring Scheme survey data (2015-2018). NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/79604721-049b-42ab-a8d7-a9c8b18a193f

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Distance: 100 urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001

Language: English

Character set: UTF8

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Environment

Begin date: 2015-01-01

End date: 2018-12-31

Reference system identifier: OSGB 1936 / British National Grid

Reference system identifier: WGS 84

Reference system identifier: TM65 / Irish Grid

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Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre		info@eidc.ac.uk	Distributor

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	https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/79604721-049b-42ab-a8d7-a9c8b18a193f.zip	Supporting information

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	https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/79604721-049b-42ab-a8d7-a9c8b18a193f	Download the data

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Title: 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: Data are collected directly from volunteers into a custom Indicia database system (www.indicia.org.uk) through the NPMS website (www.npms.org.uk) or app. The Indicia system is built on a PostgreSQL/PostGIS database, and the data presented here were extracted directly from this master database using appropriate SQL queries. See the associated documentation for more information on the broader Quality Assurance processes supporting the NPMS.

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File identifier: 79604721-049b-42ab-a8d7-a9c8b18a193f XML

Metadata language: English

Character set: 8859 Part 1

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Hierarchy level name: dataset

Date stamp: 2025-11-13T16:20:54

Metadata standard name: UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version: 2.3

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Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre		info@eidc.ac.uk	Point of contact

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