Fife Nature Records Centre combined dataset
Citation
Fife Nature Records Centre (2018). Fife Nature Records Centre combined dataset. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/ccc1ip accessed via GBIF.org on 2018-10-23.Description
A collation of records submitted to Fife Nature Records Centre from a variety of sources, including the general public, professionals and other experts, where permission has been granted to upload data to the NBN Atlas and where records are not known duplicates. Note that this dataset currently includes only a proportion of Fife Nature’s data holdings and records have been reduced to 10km resolution. Please contact Fife Nature directly to access higher resolution data and the most comprehensive and up-to-date data holdings Records are collated by Fife Nature Records Centre as a Local Environmental Records Centre to provide species distribution information and contribute to ongoing local and national conservation projects, local development planning and education, etc.Sampling Description
Quality Control
Validation and verification of this dataset is ongoing.Method steps
- This collation includes records submitted to Fife Nature Records Centre from a variety of sources, including the general public, professionals and other experts, where permission has been granted to upload data to the NBN Atlas and records are not known duplicates. Validation and verification on the dataset is ongoing; a proportion have been assessed by experts or through use of the NBN Record Cleaner. Records that have been through these processes and were flagged as unlikely or incorrect have been excluded.
Additional info
Fife Nature Records Centre offer information provision services, including tailored data searches. Please contact Fife Nature directly to access higher resolution data and the most comprehensive and up-to-date data holdingsTaxonomic Coverages
Geographic Coverages
Records are largely for Fife with some outliers, for example records for Vice County 85, i.e. including areas of Perth and Kinross. All records have been reduced to 10km resolution; for access to records at higher precision, please contact Fife Nature Records Centre.
Bibliographic Citations
Contacts
originatorFife Nature Records Centre
Rothesay House Rothesay Place
Glenrothes Fife
KY7 5PQ
email: nature.info@fife.gov.uk
homepage: http://www.fifedirect.org.uk/nature
metadata author
Fife Nature Records Centre
Rothesay House Rothesay Place
Glenrothes Fife
KY7 5PQ
email: nature.info@fife.gov.uk
homepage: http://www.fifedirect.org.uk/nature
distributor
NBN Atlas
Unit F, 14 - 18 St Mary's Gate, Lace Market
Nottingham
NG1 1PF
Nottinghamshire
GB
email: admin@nbnatlas.org
Lindsay Bamforth
administrative point of contact
email: nature.info@fife.gov.uk