Vegetation surveys of coastal shingle in Great Britain
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 2019-01-21.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
- 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.
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