Ecological monitoring in Wales: innovations in data capture in the ERAMMP field survey

Wood, Claire ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0394-2998. 2025 Ecological monitoring in Wales: innovations in data capture in the ERAMMP field survey. [Lecture] In: Landscape Ecology UK: Monitoring Ecosystem Recovery at the Landscape Scale, Edinburgh, UK, 1-3rd July 2025. (Unpublished)

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Since the 1970s, the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology has monitored the landscapes of the UK using a strategy that produces large-scale landscape estimates and assessments of land use information from a statistical sample of field survey sites as, for example, in the UK Countryside Surveys. The Welsh Government’s Environment and Rural Affairs Monitoring and Modelling Programme (ERAMMP) includes a field survey co-ordinated by UKCEH. The ERAMMP survey builds upon the technological innovations that have taken place in the UKCEH surveys over time. Since 2021, it has been recording data on soil, plants, insects, birds, water and landscape features at 300 distinct 1 km2 sample sites, dispersed across the whole of Wales. In terms of data collection in the field, the ERAMMP field surveyors are now using a suite of ArcGIS apps that enable them to capture different types of data in different ways, as well as being able to have historic and reference material to hand. Data collected during the survey are critical to the understanding of the condition of land in Wales, as well as facilitating an assessment of the Glastir agri-environment scheme. Focusing on plants and habitats, botanists have used an ArcGIS Survey123 app to record around 147,000 plant records. Habitat mappers have recorded 9700 hedgerows using the mobile app, Sweet for ArcGIS. The latest results from the survey show primarily signs of stability with some signs of improvement in the Welsh landscape, however, there has also been an increase in the number of declining indicators relative to previous reporting. Examples will be presented, with an emphasis on vegetation and woody habitats.

Item Type:	Publication - Conference Item (Lecture)
UKCEH and CEH Sections/Science Areas:	Biodiversity and Land Use (2025-)
NORA Subject Terms:	Ecology and Environment
Date made live:	15 Sep 2025 13:51 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/540197

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