A National Vegetation Plot Database for Great Britain

Marshall, Z, Wood, C, Mountford, E, Rodwell, J, Strachan, I, Pescott, O, Tatarenko, I, Hodgson, J, Walker, K, Latham, J, Maskell, L, Britton, AJ, Pakeman, RJ, Dargie, T, Mitchell, R, Jones, L, Hester, A, Ross, L, Dalrymple, S ORCID: 0000-0002-6806-855X, Stevens, C et al (2025) A National Vegetation Plot Database for Great Britain. Vegetation Classification and Survey, 6. pp. 181-190.

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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.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	Q Science > QH Natural history Q Science > QK Botany
Divisions:	Biological and Environmental Sciences (from Sep 19)
Publisher:	Pensoft Publishers
Date of acceptance:	16 August 2025
Date of first compliant Open Access:	16 September 2025
Date Deposited:	16 Sep 2025 12:59
Last Modified:	16 Sep 2025 13:15
DOI or ID number:	10.3897/VCS.160378
URI:	https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/27169

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