Identification

Title

Environmental Monitoring Database Species data

Abstract

This dataset contains species data extracted from Natural England's Environmental Monitoring Database (EMD) in January 2016. The EMD was developed to hold vegetation, bird and other species data gathered by a wide range of surveys. Most (but not all) of these Surveys were designed to monitor habitats and species being targeted for management by agri-environment schemes. The data has almost all been gathered since 1987 and the main schemes involved comprise the Environmentally Sensitive Areas, Countryside Stewardship schemes and Environmental Stewardship. The data comprise species records from a wide range of moorland, grassland, wetland and coastal habitats. As the dataset comprises records from many surveys, designed with specific individual purposes, the distribution of sampling points are a function of those individual surveys rather than representing any systematic coverage within the dataset as a whole. There are no sensitive records in this dataset. Attribution statement: © Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right [year]. (Environment theme)

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://data.nbn.org.uk/Datasets/GA001486

name: NBN Gateway

function: download

Unique resource identifier

code

GA001486

codeSpace

unknown

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

environment

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

monitoring_data

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2010-01-13

Keyword set

keyword value

Species distribution

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2008-06-01

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-6.375

East bounding longitude

1.79

North bounding latitude

55.82

South bounding latitude

49.9

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

1981-07-10

End position

2013-06-13

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2016-02-02

Frequency of update

notPlanned

Quality and validity

Lineage

The data have been extracted from Natural England's Environmental Monitoring Database. Data were only extracted for surveys where reasonably precise georeferences were available, where data were recorded at (or below) the level of the individual Rural Land Register Field Parcel. Surveys capturing data at levels above this, e.g. at the whole-agreement level, were therefore excluded. The geographic precision of records was then degraded to monad level before publication, in order to respect confidentiality agreements made with landowners at the time of survey. Where possible, the survey data are referenced to published reports, which provide further details about the survey methods used (links to these can be found within the record attributes). Most records were derived from agri-environment monitoring surveys and typically reflect presence of species at quadrats, stops or other sampling points within a sampling unit that is often a field parcel but may sometimes be a larger unit.

Conformity

Data format

name of format

unknown

version of format

unknown

Constraints related to access and use

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.

Constraint set

Use constraints

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

contact position

Enquiries

organisation name

Natural England

full postal address

Foss House, Kings Pool, 1-2 Peasholme Green

York

YO1 7PX

United Kingdom

telephone number

0300 060 3900

email address

enquiries@naturalengland.org.uk

web address

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/natural-england

responsible party role

distributor

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

contact position

Enquiries

organisation name

Natural England

full postal address

Foss House, Kings Pool, 1-2 Peasholme Green

York

YO1 7PX

United Kingdom

telephone number

0300 060 3900

email address

NaturalEnglandGIDataManagers@naturalengland.org.uk

web address

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/natural-england

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2016-04-25T10:42:07

Metadata language