We’re sorry, but GBIF doesn’t work properly without JavaScript enabled.
Our website has detected that you are using an outdated insecure browser that will prevent you from using the site. We suggest you upgrade to a modern browser.
{{nav.loginGreeting}}
  • Get data
      • Occurrences
      • GBIF API
      • Species
      • Datasets
      • Trends
  • How-to
    • Share data

      • Quick-start guide
      • Dataset classes
      • Data hosting
      • Standards
      • Become a publisher
      • Data quality
      • Data papers
    • Use data

      • Featured data use
      • Citation guidelines
      • GBIF citations
      • Citation widget
  • Tools
    • Publishing

      • IPT
      • Data validator
      • Scientific Collections
      • Suggest a dataset
    • Users

      • Data processing
      • Derived datasets
      • rgbif
      • MAXENT
      • Tools catalogue
    • GBIF labs

      • Species matching
      • Name parser
      • Sequence ID
      • Relative observation trends
      • GBIF data blog
  • Community
    • Network

      • Participant network
      • Nodes
      • Publishers
      • Network contacts
      • Community forum
      • alliance for biodiversity knowledge
    • Volunteers

      • Mentors
      • Ambassadors
      • Translators
      • Citizen scientists
    • Activities

      • Capacity enhancement
      • Programmes & projects
      • Training and learning resources
      • Data Use Club
      • Living Atlases
  • About
    • Inside GBIF

      • What is GBIF?
      • Become a member
      • Governance
      • Funders
      • Partnerships
      • Release notes
      • Implementation plan
      • Contacts
    • News & outreach

      • News
      • Newsletters and lists
      • Events
      • Ebbe Nielsen Challenge
      • Young Researchers Award
      • Science Review
  • User profile

Bryophyte data for Great Britain and Ireland from the British Bryological Society held by BRC: data compiled post-Atlas

Dataset homepage

Citation

British Bryological Society (2018). Bryophyte data for Great Britain and Ireland from the British Bryological Society held by BRC: data compiled post-Atlas. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/ttzehy accessed via GBIF.org on 2022-05-22.

Description

Bryophyte records submitted to the Biological Records Centre for England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. The dataset comprises records collected for the Bryophyte Recording Scheme, as well as those extracted from literature and museum sources. Details of all the surveys in this dataset can be obtained by clicking the 'Surveys' tab. This 'post-Atlas' dataset contains records received by the BBS after the production of the 2014 Atlas (Blockeel et al. 2014); it also contains any records that have been redetermined since inclusion in the 2014 Atlas (with the original records removed from the Atlas dataset GA000144). This new dataset currently contains records covering 139 vice-counties, with over five hundred records for each of the following (in descending order of abundance): Glamorgan, Cheshire, South Northumberland, East Sussex, West Sussex, Derbyshire, Merionethshire, Carmarthenshire, North Somerset, Renfrewshire, Shropshire (Salop), Cambridgeshire, East Norfolk, West Norfolk, East Suffolk, Anglesey, West Suffolk, Mid-west Yorkshire, Huntingdonshire, Buckinghamshire, Surrey, North-east Galway, Mid Perthshire, Breconshire, Outer Hebrides, South Hampshire, Caernarvonshire, South Devon, Argyll Main, East Cornwall, Nottinghamshire, South-west Yorkshire, Dumfriesshire, Northamptonshire, Offaly, West Inverness-shire, West Cornwall (with Scilly), South Wiltshire, Westmorland with North Lancashire, North Wiltshire, North Devon, Louth, Durham, South Lancashire, East Inverness-shire (with Nairn), North-west Yorkshire, Peeblesshire, West Galway, North Northumberland (Cheviot), and Cumberland.

Purpose

For county floras, national atlas production and inclusion in BRC database

Sampling Description

Quality Control

The data were validated against known vice-county distributions of the species, and (for critical species) by expert examination of specimens. Unusual occurrences were also flagged up to recorders on compilation of the data.

Method steps

  1. Almost all data were captured electronically by the recorders themselves. See the Atlas of Bryophytes (2014), vol. 1, pp. 2-11 for more historical detail.

Additional info

Whilst this dataset is available at its full resolution as it is held on the NBN, the spatial resolution of the records of a small number of 'sensitive' species was coarsened on the creation of this NBN dataset. This applies to occurrences of Paludella squarrosa, Leiocolea rutheana and Meesia triquetra in Ireland.

Taxonomic Coverages

Geographic Coverages

Great Britain, Ireland, Isle of Man, Channel Islands

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

originator
British Bryological Society
c/o Biological Records Centre, CEH Wallingford, Benson Lane,
Crowmarsh Gifford,
OX10 8BB
Oxfordshire
GB
email: oliver.pescott@ceh.ac.uk
homepage: http://www.britishbryologicalsociety.org.uk/
metadata author
British Bryological Society
c/o Biological Records Centre, CEH Wallingford, Benson Lane,
Crowmarsh Gifford,
OX10 8BB
Oxfordshire
GB
email: oliver.pescott@ceh.ac.uk
homepage: http://www.britishbryologicalsociety.org.uk/
distributor
NBN Atlas
Unit F, 14 - 18 St Mary's Gate, Lace Market
Nottingham
NG1 1PF
Nottinghamshire
GB
email: admin@nbnatlas.org
Oliver L. Pescott & Chris D. Preston (joint Recording Secretaries)
administrative point of contact
email: oliver.pescott@ceh.ac.uk
What is GBIF? API FAQ Newsletter Privacy Terms and agreements Citation Code of Conduct Acknowledgements
Contact GBIF Secretariat Universitetsparken 15 DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø Denmark