A national vegetation plot database for Great Britain

Z. Marshall; C. Wood; E. Mountford; J. Rodwell; I. Strachan; O. Pescott; I. Tatarenko; J. Hodgson; K. Walker; J. Latham; L. Maskell; A.J. Britton; R.J. Pakeman; T. Dargie; R. Mitchell; L. Jones; A. Hester; L. Ross; S. Dalrymple; C. Stevens; E. Rowe; F. McCullagh; S. Willis; R. Marrs; L. Norton; S.M. Smart

doi:10.3897/VCS.160378

A national vegetation plot database for Great Britain

Z. Marshall
, C. Wood
, E. Mountford
, J. Rodwell
, I. Strachan
, O. Pescott
, I. Tatarenko
, J. Hodgson
, K. Walker
, J. Latham
, L. Maskell
, A.J. Britton
, R.J. Pakeman
, T. Dargie
, R. Mitchell
, L. Jones
, A. Hester
, L. Ross
, S. Dalrymple
, C. Stevens

E. Rowe, F. McCullagh, S. Willis, R. Marrs, L. Norton, S.M. Smart

Biodiversity & Ecosystems

NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (Lancaster. England)
Joint Nature Conservation Committee
Not Recorded
NatureScot (Inverness)
Open University Milton Keynes
University of Sheffield
Natural Resources Wales
Scotland's Rural College (Aberdeen)
Liverpool John Moores University
Lancaster University
Natural England
Durham University
University of Liverpool

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Abstract

The GBNVPD (GIVD-code EU-GB-007) is the new centralised repository for the collection and storage of standardised vegetation plot data in Great Britain and the Crown Dependencies. The initial version of the GBNVPD (v1.0) described in this long database report comprises data from 63 individual sources and contains 277,070 samples from 200,733 plots, with a total of 4,463,300 occurrences of 4,086 accepted taxa (3,464 accepted species), surveyed between 1949 and 2024. Of the 63 constituent datasets 52 are newly submitted to the EVA and 9 to ReSurveyEurope. The database is available under a discretionary mixed-access regime and will be maintained and updated continuously in response to further digitisation of historic paper records, collection of pre-existing digitised survey data, and addition of future survey data. Abbreviations: EVA = European Vegetation Archive; GB = Great Britain; GBNVPD = National Vegetation Plot Database for Great Britain and the Crown Dependencies; NVC = National Vegetation Classification; UKCEH = United Kingdom Centre for Ecology and Hydrology; UKSI = United Kingdom Species Inventory.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	181-190
Number of pages	10
Journal	Vegetation Classification and Survey
Volume	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3897/VCS.160378
Publication status	Published - 15 Sept 2025

Keywords

European Vegetation Archive (EVA)
National Vegetation Classification (NVC)
ReSurveyEurope
Vegetation survey
vegetation plot database

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Marshall, Z., Wood, C., Mountford, E., Rodwell, J., Strachan, I., Pescott, O., Tatarenko, I., Hodgson, J., Walker, K., Latham, J., Maskell, L., Britton, A. J., Pakeman, R. J., Dargie, T., Mitchell, R., Jones, L., Hester, A., Ross, L., Dalrymple, S., ... Smart, S. M. (2025). A national vegetation plot database for Great Britain. Vegetation Classification and Survey, 6, 181-190. https://doi.org/10.3897/VCS.160378

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A national vegetation plot database for Great Britain

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