Great crested newt presence records determined from Class Licence return documents (2013-2018)
Citation
Natural England (2020). Great crested newt presence records determined from Class Licence return documents (2013-2018). Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/xe8xni accessed via GBIF.org on 2021-04-22.Description
Presence only records for great crested newts determined through class licence surveys submitted to Natural England between 2013-2018. For additional information please see https://naturalengland-defra.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/gcn-class-survey-licence-returns-englandPurpose
This data set provides valuable information on the distribution of a European Protected Species, the great crested newt. This data set has been used to inform activities related to District Level Licensing and the release of the data set increases transparency of this new licensing scheme.Sampling Description
Quality Control
This is a presence only dataset given the difficulties in validating true absences for great crested newts. Records were removed if they had incomplete 6 figure OS grid references or where the 6 figure OS grid reference did not fall within the boundaries of the reported Administrative Area.Method steps
- Class licence surveys for great crested newts were undertaken by hand, nets, torches and aquatic funnel traps (including bottle traps) but excluding the use of pitfall traps and box traps.
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England
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