Identification

Title

Oak spring and autumn phenology data in southern England 2011-2014

Alternative title(s)

Abstract

These data describe the spring budburst and autumn leaf senescence of mature oak (Quercus robur L.) in productive forests in the New Forest, East Anglia and Devon. The columns are marked springxx and autumnxx for budburst and senescence respectively in the year xx. The data was collected as part of two projects financed by the Forestry Commission with matched funding provided by the European Union (European Regional Development Fund ERDF) within the framework of the European INTERREG IV A 2 Mers Seas Zeeën Cross-border Cooperation Programme 2007-2013 (Project 090316 016-FR) and the Interreg IVA France (Channel) England Cross-border Cooperation Programme 2007-2015 under the priority to: 'Ensure a sustainable environmental development of the common space'; with the objective to 'Ensure a balanced management of the environment and raise awareness about environmental issues'. These two projects are MULTIFOR: Management of Multi-Functional Forests (www.multifor.eu) and ADAFOR: Forest Management Adaptation. The data are derived from repeat manual observations over the period 2011-2014 in eight forest stands in the New Forest, eight stands in East Anglia, and four stands in Devon. Weekly or fortnightly visits were made to each stand and observations of the progression of budburst and leaf senescence were recorded. For spring, the data here show the day of year on which more than 3 of the 5 trees monitored had reached stage 4 (see Broadmeadow, M.S.J., Pitman, R.M., Jackson, S.B., Randle, T.J. and Durrant, D.W.H. (2000). Upgrading the Level II protocol for physiological modelling of cause-effect relationships: a pilot study. Final report for EC project No. 98.60.UK.003.0 – pilot and demonstration project of EEC regulation 3528/86 and EC 1091/94 on the protection of the Community’s forests and against atmospheric pollution. Forest Research, Edinburgh.). For autumn, the data here show the day of year on which more than 3 of the 5 trees monitored had reached stage 4 for either canopy colour or leaf-fall (see Eaton, E.L., Barsoum, N., Bonnart, X., Havet, N., and Morison J.I.L. (2015). Oak phenology in southern England and northern France. Report to the Forestry Commission and European Union.). See: Eaton, E.L., Barsoum, N., Bonnart, X., Havet, N., and Morison J.I.L. (2015). Oak phenology in southern England and northern France. Report to the Forestry Commission and European Union. pp19. Attribution statement:

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/data.defra.gov.uk/Forestry/FC_OpenData/FR/adafor_phenology.csv

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description:

Unique resource identifier

code

57ebd6a8-08d0-46c6-9253-547c27854df6

codeSpace

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/27700

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

environment

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Opendata

Keyword set

keyword value

England

Keyword set

keyword value

Scientific

Research

Phenology

Keyword set

keyword value

leaf

tree

originating controlled vocabulary

title

GEMET - Concepts, version 2.4

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-01-13

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-3.61

East bounding longitude

0.8990000000000001

North bounding latitude

52.597

South bounding latitude

50.853

Extent

Extent group

authority code

code identifying the extent

http://data.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/doc/country/england

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

2011-01-01

End position

2014-12-01

Dataset reference date

date type

creation

effective date

2014-12-20

date type

publication

effective date

2016-04-11

Frequency of update

notPlanned

Quality and validity

Lineage

Manual spring and autumn phenological observations by Forest Research staff of oak trees in the New Forest, East Anglia, and Devon, using a modification of the ICP Forests phenology protocol (Broadmeadow, M.S.J., Pitman, R.M., Jackson, S.B., Randle, T.J. and Durrant, D.W.H. (2000). Upgrading the Level II protocol for physiological modelling of cause-effect relationships: a pilot study. Final report for EC project No. 98.60.UK.003.0 – pilot and demonstration project of EEC regulation 3528/86 and EC 1091/94 on the protection of the Community’s forests and against atmospheric pollution. Forest Research, Edinburgh.). Individual sites given as: region stand_id lat, lon New Forest nf1527 50.919, -1.711 New Forest nf1532 50.915, -1.710 New Forest nf1614 50.929,-1. 641 New Forest nf2104 50.869, -1.743 New Forest nf2509 50.841, -1.663 New Forest nf2639 50.865, -1.629 New Forest nf4004 50.853, -1.585 New Forest nf4317 50.846, -1.538 East Anglia ea3009 52.515, 0.676 East Anglia ea3021 52.507, 0.668 East Anglia ea3313 52.503, 0.857 East Anglia ea3335 52.597, 0.852 East Anglia ea4714 52.427, 0.899 East Anglia ea4716 52.425, 0.889 East Anglia ea3548b 52.434, 0.857 East Anglia ea3548d 52.425, 0.889 Devon pen4012 50.865, -3.863 Devon pen6013 50.983, -3.044 Devon pen7013 51.157, -3.604 Devon penash 50.785, -3.420

Conformity

Data format

name of format

Open format | Comma Separated Values file (CSV)

version of format

N/A

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Use constraints

Contains Forestry Commission information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

There are no public access constraints to this data. Use of this data is subject to the licence identified.

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

organisation name

Forestry Commission

email address

mapping.geodata@forestry.gov.uk

web address

http://www.forestry.gov.uk/

description: Forestry Commission Website

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

Forestry Commission

email address

mapping.geodata@forestry.gov.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2019-03-21

Metadata language

eng