Isle of Wight Notable Species

Quality Control

Records are validated by local experts. A significant proportion of the records originate from professional surveys, but may records are ad-hoc observations. The dataset has been checked using the NBN Record Cleaner.

Method steps

1. Most of the records were collected by amateur naturalists and local recording groups and hence the purpose of data capture will vary from one record to the next. Others were collected by professional ecologists to inform applications for development, or the monitoring of wildlife sites.

The dataset covers the Isle of Wight. The records are largely ad-hoc and coverage is incomplete. The records in this dataset were provided with four or six figure grid-references but some of these grid references refer the approximate central location of sites and hence may not represent the actual location of the species occurrence.