Countryside Survey 2007 estimates of Broad Habitat areas in Great Britain

Brown, Mike ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2996-0633; Bunce, R.G.H.; Carey, Peter; Chandler, Kathy; Crowe, Andrew; Maskell, Lindsay ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4006-7755; Norton, Lisa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1622-0281; Scott, Rod; Scott, Andy; Smart, Simon ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2750-7832; Stuart, Rick; Wood, Claire ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0394-2998; Wright, Simon. Countryside Survey 2007 estimates of Broad Habitat areas in Great Britain. NERC-Environmental Information Data Centre 27 January 2014, http://doi.org/10.5285/f03cba75-8bca-4679-ae2a-77a9fcbd4df3 [Output (Electronic)]

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Abstract/Summary

This dataset consists of stock (area) data for Broad Habitats across Great Britain in 2007. The data are national estimates generated by analysing the sample data from 591 1km squares and scaling up to a national level. The data are summarized as habitat area per Land Class (areas of similar environmental characteristics). The sample sites are chosen from a stratified random sample, based on a 15 by 15 km grid of GB and using the 'ITE Land Classification' as a method of stratification. The data were collected as part of Countryside Survey, a unique study or 'audit' of the natural resources of the UK's countryside. The Survey has been carried out at regular intervals since 1978. The countryside is sampled and surveyed using rigorous scientific methods, allowing us to compare new results with those from previous surveys. In this way we can detect the gradual and subtle changes that occur in the UK's countryside over time. Surveys have been carried out in 1978, 1984, 1990, 1998 and 2007 with repeated visits to the majority of squares. In addition to habitat areas, vegetation species data, soil data, linear habitat data, and freshwater habitat data are also gathered by Countryside Survey.

Item Type:	Output (Electronic)
Electronic Identifier / URL / DOI:	http://doi.org/10.5285/f03cba75-8bca-4679-ae2a-77a9fcbd4df3
Date made live:	24 Mar 2014 13:56 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/504823

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