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A national vegetation plot database for Great Britain

Marshall, Zeke ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9260-7827; Wood, Claire ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0394-2998; Mountford, Ed; Rodwell, John ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7790-3089; Strachan, Ian; Pescott, Oli ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0685-8046; Tatarenko, Irina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6835-2465; Hodgson, John; Walker, Kevin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5751-8623; Latham, James; Maskell, Lindsay ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4006-7755; Britton, Andrea J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0603-7432; Pakeman, Robin J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6248-4133; Dargie, Tom ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-8472-5204; Mitchell, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8151-2769; Jones, Laurence ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4379-9006; Hester, Alison ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2407-1474; Ross, Louise ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1358-9814; Dalrymple, Sarah ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6806-855X; Stevens, Carly ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2390-1763; Rowe, Ed ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4784-7236; McCullagh, Frances ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-1295-5918; Willis, Stephen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8656-5808; Marrs, Rob ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0664-9420; Norton, Lisa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1622-0281; Smart, Simon M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2750-7832. 2025 A national vegetation plot database for Great Britain. Vegetation Classification and Survey, 6. 181-190. 10.3897/VCS.160378


Abstract
The GBNVPD (GIVD-code EU-GB-007) is the new centralised repository for the collection and storage of standardised vegetation plot data in Great Britain and the Crown Dependencies. The initial version of the GBNVPD (v1.0) described in this long database report comprises data from 63 individual sources and contains 277,070 samples from 200,733 plots, with a total of 4,463,300 occurrences of 4,086 accepted taxa (3,464 accepted species), surveyed between 1949 and 2024. Of the 63 constituent datasets 52 are newly submitted to the EVA and 9 to ReSurveyEurope. The database is available under a discretionary mixed-access regime and will be maintained and updated continuously in response to further digitisation of historic paper records, collection of pre-existing digitised survey data, and addition of future survey data. Abbreviations : EVA = European Vegetation Archive; GB = Great Britain; GBNVPD = National Vegetation Plot Database for Great Britain and the Crown Dependencies; NVC = National Vegetation Classification; UKCEH = United Kingdom Centre for Ecology and Hydrology; UKSI = United Kingdom Species Inventory.
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Official URL:
https://doi.org/10.3897/VCS.160378
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Digital Object Identifier (DOI):
10.3897/VCS.160378
UKCEH and CEH Sections/Science Areas:
Biodiversity and Land Use (2025-)
Land-Atmosphere Interactions (2025-)
ISSN:
2683-0671
NORA Subject Terms:
Ecology and Environment
Botany
Additional Keywords:
European Vegetation Archive (EVA), National Vegetation Classification (NVC), ReSurveyEurope, vegetation plot database, vegetation survey
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https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/540262
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Publication - Article
Date made live:
22 Sep 2025 10:28
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