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Vegetation surveys of coastal shingle in Great Britain

Dataset homepage

Citation

Joint Nature Conservation Committee (2018). Vegetation surveys of coastal shingle in Great Britain. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/tb3sjq accessed via GBIF.org on 2022-05-18.

Description

Data from two vegetation surveys commissioned by the Nature Conservancy Council in 1987, using NVC methodology.
1) A detailed survey of the whole shingle peninsula of Dungeness, Kent, carried out by Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, London (Ferry, Lodge & Waters 1990)
2) A detailed survey of coastal shingle structures and beaches supporting permanent flora above the strandline (other than Dungeness) in England, Scotland and Wales, carried out by Girton College, Cambridge (Sneddon 1992; Sneddon & Randall 1993)

Sampling Description

Method steps

  1. NVC quadrat survey, captured into a vespan data format for analysis of biotope types. The vespan files have been converted to an access database by JNCC in 2003.

Taxonomic Coverages

Geographic Coverages

All major sites containing coastal shingle habitats in Great Britain were covered by this survey Vegetation was sampled at multiple quadrats within each site; however, for many locations, only a single grid reference is available covering the whole of each site.

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

originator
Joint Nature Conservation Committee
Monkstone House ,
City Road
PE1 1JY
Peterborough
GB
homepage: http://www.jncc.gov.uk
metadata author
Joint Nature Conservation Committee
Monkstone House ,
City Road
PE1 1JY
Peterborough
GB
homepage: http://www.jncc.gov.uk
distributor
NBN Atlas
Unit F, 14 - 18 St Mary's Gate, Lace Market
Nottingham
NG1 1PF
Nottinghamshire
GB
email: admin@nbnatlas.org
JNCC Data
administrative point of contact
email: data@jncc.gov.uk
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