Long-term vegetation monitoring in Great Britain – the Countryside Survey 1978–2007 and beyond

Wood, Claire M.; Smart, Simon M.; Bunce, Robert G. H.; Norton, Lisa R.; Maskell, Lindsay C.; Howard, David C.; Scott, W. Andrew; Henrys, Peter A.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-9-445-2017

Articles | Volume 9, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-9-445-2017

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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-9-445-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 9, issue 2

Review article

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20 Jul 2017

Review article |

| 20 Jul 2017

Long-term vegetation monitoring in Great Britain – the Countryside Survey 1978–2007 and beyond

Claire M. Wood, Simon M. Smart, Robert G. H. Bunce, Lisa R. Norton, Lindsay C. Maskell, David C. Howard, W. Andrew Scott, and Peter A. Henrys

Data sets

Countryside Survey 1978 vegetation plot data C. J. Barr, R. G. H. Bunce, S. M. Smart, and H. A. Whittaker https://doi.org/10.5285/67bbfabb-d981-4ced-b7e7-225205de9c96

Countryside Survey 1990 vegetation plot data C. J. Barr, R. G. H. Bunce, M. K. Gillespie, C. J. Hallam, D. C. Howard, L. C. Maskell, M. J. Ness, L. R. Norton, R. J. Scott, S. M. Smart, R. C. Stuart, and C. M. Wood https://doi.org/10.5285/26e79792-5ffc-4116-9ac7-72193dd7f191

Countryside Survey 1998 vegetation plot data C. J. Barr, R. G. H. Bunce, M. K. Gillespie, D. C. Howard, L. C. Maskell, L. R. Norton, R. J. Scott, E. R. Shield, S. M. Smart, R. C. Stuart, J. W. Watkins, and C. M. Wood https://doi.org/10.5285/07896bb2-7078-468c-b56d-fb8b41d47065

Countryside Survey 2007 vegetation plot data R. G. H. Bunce, P. D. Carey, L. C. Maskell, L. R. Norton, R. J. Scott, S. M. Smart, and C. M. Wood https://doi.org/10.5285/57f97915-8ff1-473b-8c77-2564cbd747bc

Short summary

The Countryside Survey (CS) of Great Britain consists of an extensive set of repeated ecological measurements at a national scale, covering a time span of 29 years. CS was first undertaken in 1978 to monitor ecological and land use change in Britain using standardised procedures for recording ecological data from representative 1 km squares throughout the country. The vegetation component has subsequently been repeated in 1990, 1998 and 2007, and changes may be related to a range of drivers.