A National Vegetation Plot Database for Great Britain

By

Marshall, Zeke
Wood, Claire
Mountford, Ed
Rodwell, John
Strachan, Ian
Pescott, Oliver
Tatarenko, Irina
Hodgson, John
Walker, Kevin
Latham, James
Maskell, Lindsay
Britton, Andrea J.
Pakeman, Robin J.
Dargie, Tom
Mitchell, Ruth
Jones, Laurence
Hester, Alison
Ross, Louise
Dalrymple, Sarah
Stevens, Carly
Rowe, Ed
Mccullagh, Frances
Willis, Stephen
Marrs, Rob
Norton, Lisa
Smart, Simon M.

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2025-9-15

Original Publication

Vegetation classification and survey

Volume

6

Pages

181--190

Subjects

European Vegetation Archive (EVA) , National Vegetation Classification (NVC) , ReSurveyEurope , vegetation plot database , vegetation survey

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia Pensoft Publishers 2020-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/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.<br> 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.