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A common plants survey of vascular plants in South Northumberland and Durham, United Kingdom

Dataset homepage

Citation

Groom Q (2023). A common plants survey of vascular plants in South Northumberland and Durham, United Kingdom. Version 1.15. Meise Botanic Garden. Sampling event dataset https://doi.org/10.3897/bdj.3.e7318 accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-01.

Description

A vascular plant survey of the vice counties of South Northumberland and Durham, United Kingdom.

Sampling Description

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.

Sampling

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.

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 steps

  1. Observations were digitised using Mapmate (http://www.mapmate.co.uk/).

Taxonomic Coverages

Vascular plants and charophytes
  1. Anthophyta
    rank: phylum
  2. Coniferophyta
    rank: phylum
  3. Pterophyta
    rank: phylum
  4. Lycophyta
    rank: phylum
  5. Charophyta
    rank: phylum

Geographic Coverages

The Vice Counties of South Northumberland and Durham, in the north-east of England, United Kingdom

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

Quentin Groom
originator
position: Researcher
Botanic Garden Meise
Nieuwelaan 38
Meise
1860
Vlaams Brabant
BE
email: quentin.groom@plantentuinmeise.be
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0596-5376
Quentin Groom
metadata author
Botanic Garden Meise
Nieuwelaan 38
Meise
1860
Vlaams Brabant
BE
email: quentin.groom@plantentuinmeise.be
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0596-5376
John Durkin
content provider
John Durkin Ecology
Blaydon
Tyne and Wear
GB
email: durkinjl@aol.com
homepage: http://www.durhamnature.co.uk/
John O'Reilly
author
Ptyxis Ecology
3 Station Cottages
Lambley
CA8 7LL
GB
Telephone: 01434 321199
email: enquiries@ptyxis.com
homepage: http://www.ptyxis.com/
Andy McLay
content provider
c/o Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland
GB
A. John Richards
content provider
c/o Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland
GB
Janet Angel
content provider
c/o The Natural History Society of Northumbria
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
GB
homepage: http://www.nhsn.ncl.ac.uk/
Angela Horsley
content provider
c/o The Natural History Society of Northumbria
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
GB
homepage: http://www.nhsn.ncl.ac.uk/
Megs Rogers
content provider
c/o The Natural History Society of Northumbria
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
GB
homepage: http://www.nhsn.ncl.ac.uk/
Gordon Young
content provider
c/o The Natural History Society of Northumbria
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
GB
homepage: http://www.nhsn.ncl.ac.uk/
Quentin Groom
administrative point of contact
position: Researcher
Botanic Garden Meise
Nieuwelaan 38
Meise
1860
Vlaams Brabant
BE
email: quentin.groom@plantentuinmeise.be
homepage: http://www.botanicalkeys.co.uk/northumbria/
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0596-5376
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