Cairngorms: UK Environmental Change Network (ECN) coarse grain vegetation data: 1994-2015

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Coarse grain vegetation data from the UK Environmental Change Network (ECN) terrestrial sites. These data are collected at all of ECN's terrestrial sites using a standard protocol (see supporting documentation). In this protocol, 50 2m x 2m plots are randomly selected within each vegetation type on the site - species presence is recorded in 40cm x 40 cm cells randomly selected within these plots. They represent continuous records every nine years from 1993 to 2012. ECN is the UK's long-term environmental monitoring programme. It is a multi-agency programme sponsored by a consortium of fourteen government departments and agencies. These organisations contribute to the programme through funding either site monitoring and/or network co-ordination activities. These organisations are: Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute, Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, Cyfoeth Naturiol Cymru - Natural Resources Wales, Defence Science & Technology Laboratory, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Environment Agency, Forestry Commission, Llywodraeth Cymru - Welsh Government, Natural England, Natural Environment Research Council, Northern Ireland Environment Agency, Scottish Environment Protection Agency, Scottish Government and Scottish Natural Heritage.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.5285/d349babc-329a-4d6e-9eca-92e630e1be3f
Source https://deims.org/dataset/6273b480-124d-49d3-ade2-d6c0ef8534c2
Related Identifier https://deims.org/api/datasets/6273b480-124d-49d3-ade2-d6c0ef8534c2
Metadata Access https://deims.org/pycsw/catalogue/csw?service=CSW&version=2.0.2&request=GetRecordById&Id=6273b480-124d-49d3-ade2-d6c0ef8534c2&outputSchema=http://www.isotc211.org/2005/gmd
Provenance
Publisher Long-Term Ecosystem Research in Europe; Scottish Natural Heritage; UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Contributor DEIMS-SDR Site and Dataset registry deims.org
Publication Year 2018
Rights No conditions apply to access and use; Formal acknowledgement of the dataset providers public access limited according to Article 13(1)(g) of the INSPIRE Directive
OpenAccess true
Contact srennie(at)ceh.ac.uk
Representation
Discipline Environmental Monitoring
Spatial Coverage (-4.312W, 56.884S, -3.731E, 57.156N)