Identification

Title

Ecological survey of the Spey Valley birch woods, 1973

Abstract

This dataset includes ecological information recorded from within 18 birch woodlands surveyed in the Spey Valley, Scotland between 1971 and 1974. Data collected includes plant species composition in the canopy and ground flora, soil pH, habitat management and a wide range of other descriptors at a site level and in more detail from 16 - 40 200m2 sample plots located at random within the 18 woods. The survey was undertaken by the Nature Conservancy/Institute of Terrestrial Ecology.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

http://eidc.ceh.ac.uk/metadata/c84961e3-b9dc-4c92-b316-36295b8a3330/zip_export/

name: Supporting information

description: Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset

function: information

https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/download?fileIdentifier=c84961e3-b9dc-4c92-b316-36295b8a3330

name: Download the data

description: Download a copy of this data

function: order

Unique resource identifier

code

https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/c84961e3-b9dc-4c92-b316-36295b8a3330

codeSpace

doi:

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

authority code

urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG

code identifying the spatial reference system

27700

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

environment

biota

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Environmental Monitoring Facilities

originating controlled vocabulary

title

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2008-06-01

Keyword set

keyword value

Environmental Monitoring Facilities

Keyword set

keyword value

Environmental survey

Biodiversity

Soil

Keyword set

keyword value

Scotland

Spey valley

Keyword set

keyword value

woodland

birch woods

Keyword set

keyword value

Monitoring and observation systems

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-3.959

East bounding longitude

-2.52

North bounding latitude

57.728

South bounding latitude

56.68

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

1971-01-01

End position

1974-12-01

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2017-02-01

date type

creation

effective date

1974-12-01

Frequency of update

notPlanned

Quality and validity

Lineage

This dataset was collected between 1971 and 1974 by trained field surveyors employed by the Nature Conservancy (later the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology). The majority of sites were surveyed in 1973 and 1974. Data were recorded on paper according to standardised methods, and later digitised and loaded into a central database held at the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Lancaster.

Conformity

Data format

name of format

Comma-separated values (CSV)

version of format

unknown

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Use constraints

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

Registration is required to access this data

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

organisation name

NERC Environmental Information Data Centre

email address

eidc@ceh.ac.uk

responsible party role

publisher

Responsible party

organisation name

Environmental Information Data Centre

email address

eidc@ceh.ac.uk

responsible party role

custodian

Responsible party

organisation name

Centre for Ecology & Hydrology