UKSBA Cyprus - Quadrats 2015-2017
Citation
Pescott O L, Peyton J M, Onete M, Mountford J O (2020). UKSBA Cyprus - Quadrats 2015-2017. Version 1.5. Biological Records Centre. Sampling event dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/r4wyck accessed via GBIF.org on 2022-07-01.Description
Quadrats recorded in the UK Soverign Base Areas of Cyprus under two COST Action (TD1209) Short-Term Scientific Missions. Quadrats focused on stands of non-native species, particularly Acacia saligna and Eucalyptus spp.Purpose
Cataloguing the novel communities created by the planting and spread of non-native species in Cyprus.Sampling Description
Study Extent
UK Sovereign Base Areas in Cyprus (Akrotiri & Dhekelia)Sampling
Haphazardly located quadrats in and around stands of non-native species. GPS locations were taken using field computers with integrated GPS using ArcPad 10.2. Some quadrats initially surveyed in 2015 were resurveyed in 2017, these are prefixed '17' in their eventID identifiers. See also http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/512985/ and http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/516601/.Quality Control
Four experienced botanists worked together initially to harmonise identifications. R. Meikle's Flora of Cyprus (1977, 1985) was frequently referred to to check identifications. Genus-level or other ways of indicating uncertainty (e.g. the use of cf.) were used and are included in this dataset using the appropriate Darwin Core fields.Method steps
- See http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/512985/ and http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/516601/. Spatial data were downloaded from tablet computers using ArcPad 10.2, quadrat data were entered from paper forms. All data were checked using GIS software and manual quality checks of location and taxonomy subsequent to data entry.
Additional info
Spatial data relating to stands of the woody non-natives surveyed here are also available at https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/documents/7c84e06d-bb1a-4aac-b1d7-33c11310d8a0 Spatially targeted notes on communities and other features of the areas surveyed are also available within that dataset.Taxonomic Coverages
Geographic Coverages
UK Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia on Cyprus
Bibliographic Citations
- Peyton, Jodey; Mountford, Owen. 2015 COST Action short term scientific mission – Lake Akrotiri, Cyprus. Wallingford, NERC/Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, 23pp. - http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/512985/
- Peyton, Jodey; Pescott, Oliver; Mountford, Owen; Onete, Marilena; Martinou, Kelly. 2017 COST Action short term scientific mission – Alien plant species in Overseas Territories in Cyprus, 5th-18th March 2017. Wallingford, NERC/Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, 10pp. - http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/516601/
- Pescott, O.L., Harris, S.E., Peyton, J.M., Onete, M., Martinou, A.F., & Mountford, J.O. (2018). The forest on the peninsula: Impacts, uses and perceptions of a colonial legacy in Cyprus. In: Histories of Bioinvasions in Mediterranean-type regions A.I. Quieroz and S. Pooley (eds), pp. 195-217. Springer, Cham. - DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-74986-0_9
Contacts
Oliver L. Pescottoriginator
position: Plant Ecologist
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Maclean Building, Benson Lane, Crowmarsh Gifford
Wallingford
OX10 8BB
Oxfordshire
GB
email: olipes@ceh.ac.uk
userId: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=aUBHmIQAAAAJ&hl=en
Jodey M. Peyton
originator
position: Ecologist
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Maclean Building, Benson Lane, Crowmarsh Gifford
Wallingford
OX10 8BB
Oxfordshire
GB
email: joyt@ceh.ac.uk
Marilena Onete
originator
position: Researcher
Institutul de Biologie Bucuresti al Academiei Romane
Bucharest
RO
email: marilena.onete@gmail.com
userId: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=YrGZdIoAAAAJ&hl=ro
J. Owen Mountford
originator
position: Fellow
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Maclean Building, Benson Lane, Crowmarsh Gifford
Wallingford
OX10 8BB
Oxfordshire
GB
email: om@ceh.ac.uk
Oliver L. Pescott
metadata author
position: Plant Ecologist
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Maclean Building, Benson Lane, Crowmarsh Gifford
Wallingford
OX10 8BB
Oxfordshire
GB
email: olipes@ceh.ac.uk
userId: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=aUBHmIQAAAAJ&hl=en
Oliver L. Pescott
user
position: Plant Ecologist
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Maclean Building, Benson Lane, Crowmarsh Gifford
Wallingford
OX10 8BB
Oxfordshire
GB
email: olipes@ceh.ac.uk
userId: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=aUBHmIQAAAAJ&hl=en
Oliver L. Pescott
administrative point of contact
position: Plant Ecologist
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Maclean Building, Benson Lane, Crowmarsh Gifford
Wallingford
OX10 8BB
Oxfordshire
GB
email: olipes@ceh.ac.uk
userId: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=aUBHmIQAAAAJ&hl=en