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CS data used in European Heath Study

Submitted by Claire Wood on Wed, 07/04/2018 - 11:22

A study of the character of European heathland vegetation has been undertaken by masters student Dorothea Epperlein which includes data from Countryside Survey. A summary of the work is available here: Heathland vegetation_Abstract english Epperlein.pdf

Out today - new data paper

Submitted by Claire Wood on Fri, 05/18/2018 - 13:10

Out today - new data paper:

Land cover and vegetation data from an ecological survey of "key habitat" landscapes in England, 1992–1993

Claire M. Wood, Robert G. H. Bunce, Lisa R. Norton, Simon M. Smart, and Colin J. Barr

Out now - new data paper

Submitted by Claire Wood on Thu, 04/19/2018 - 07:46

Wood, C. M., Bunce, R. G. H., Norton, L. R., Maskell, L. C., Smart, S. M., Scott, W. A., Henrys, P. A., Howard, D. C., Wright, S. M., Brown, M. J., Scott, R. J., Stuart, R. C., and Watkins, J. W.: Ecological landscape elements: long-term monitoring in Great Britain, the Countryside Survey 1978–2007 and beyond, Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 10, 745-763, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-745-2018, 2018.

Identifying effective approaches for monitoring national natural capital for policy use

Submitted by Claire Wood on Tue, 02/20/2018 - 11:56

Norton, L. R., Smart, S. M., Maskell, L. C., Henrys, P. A., Wood, C. M., Keith, A. M., Emmett, B. A., Cosby, B. J., Thomas, A., Scholefield, P. A., Greene, S., Morton, R. D. and Rowland, C. S. (2018) 'Identifying effective approaches for monitoring national natural capital for policy use', Ecosystem Services, 30, Part A, 98-106.

Changes in the frequency of common plant species across linear features in Wales from 1990 to 2016: implications for potential delivery of ecosystem services

Submitted by Claire Wood on Fri, 01/26/2018 - 13:01

Smart et al. (2017) analysed an update to the CS time series based on a Welsh Government funded repeat of those CS squares just in Wales that had been visited in every survey since 1978. The analysis for the first time explicitly included variation in recording effort derived from Quality Assurance surveys. We also grouped species by the ecosystem services which they potentially support. The results showed that the trend for linear features to become more shaded and dominated by trees and shrubs has continued since the last survey in 2007.

New paper out! Upscaling biodiversity: estimating the species–area relationship from small samples

Submitted by Claire Wood on Fri, 01/26/2018 - 12:58

Kunin et al. (2018) took on the heroic challenge of modelling the species-accumulation curve based on the 200m2 X plots covering Britain and then attempted to upscale to the whole of Britain and predict the size of the British flora. The amazing thing is that 3 techniques came very close!

Kunin, W.E., Harte, J., He, F., Hui, C., Jobe, R.T., Ostling, A., Polce, C., Sizling, A., Smith, A.B., Smith, K. and Smart, S.M., 2017. Up-scaling biodiversity: estimating the Species-Area Relationship from small samples. Ecological Monographs.

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