Description
Data Records
The data in this sampling event resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 1,492 records.
1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Versions
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Groom Q, Durkin J, O'Reilly J, Mclay A, Richards A, Angel J, Horsley A, Rogers M, Young G (2015) A benchmark survey of the common plants of South Northumberland and Durham, United Kingdom. Biodiversity Data Journal 3: e7318. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.3.e7318
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Meise Botanic Garden. To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 5d784d06-fa1d-4f00-8cdc-663d04d26061. Meise Botanic Garden publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Belgian Biodiversity Platform.
Keywords
Samplingevent; plants; Northumberland; Durham; randomised survey; Samplingevent
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Geographic Coverage
The Vice Counties of South Northumberland and Durham, in the north-east of England, United Kingdom
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [54.451, -2.69], North East [55.368, -1.154] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Vascular plants and charophytes
| Phylum | Anthophyta, Coniferophyta, Pterophyta, Lycophyta, Charophyta |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 1998-01-01 / 2013-12-30 |
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Sampling Methods
The volunteer observers were asked to... 1. Record all the species that they could identify confidently. 2. Include, planted or sown plants where they are an important feature of the landscape, but to note when they are planted. 3. To try to visit the full range of habitats within the grid square. 4. When they had finished surveying the square, they were asked to assign a DAFOR letter to each species you found. The DAFOR scale is D = Dominant; A = Abundant, F = Frequent, O = Occasional, R = Rare.
| Study Extent | The idea is to subsample about 3% of the land area of South Northumberland and Durham in 1km × 1km Ordnance Survey squares over three years. |
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| Quality Control | Observations were digitised and reviewed by John Durkin, John O'Reily and Quentin Groom. Any obvious mistakes where deleted at this point. |
Method step description:
- Observations were digitised using Mapmate (http://www.mapmate.co.uk/).
Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 5d784d06-fa1d-4f00-8cdc-663d04d26061 |
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| https://ipt.botanicalcollections.be/resource?r=commonplantssurveyofvascularplantsnortheastengland |