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Great crested newt presence records determined from Class Licence return documents (2013-2018)

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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 2022-05-19.

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-england

Purpose

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

  1. 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.

Taxonomic Coverages

Geographic Coverages

England

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Contacts

originator
Natural England
4th Floor, Foss House, Kings Pool, 1-2 Peasholme Green,
York
YO1 7PX
GB
Telephone: 0300 060 3900
homepage: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/natural-england
metadata author
Natural England
4th Floor, Foss House, Kings Pool, 1-2 Peasholme Green,
York
YO1 7PX
GB
Telephone: 0300 060 3900
homepage: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/natural-england
distributor
NBN Atlas
Unit F, 14 - 18 St Mary's Gate, Lace Market
Nottingham
NG1 1PF
Nottinghamshire
GB
email: admin@nbnatlas.org
Richard Clarke
administrative point of contact
email: Richard.Clarke@naturalengland.org.uk
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