Fine Grain Vegetation Monitoring of Yr Wyddfa / Snowdon ECN Site
The Environmental Change Network (ECN) is the UK's long-term, integrated environmental monitoring and research programme. It gathers information on the responses to environmental change in physical, chemical and biological systems. This is done through a network of UK monitoring sites from which long-term datasets can be used to identify environmental changes and improve understanding of the causes of change. The purpose of this data capture was to investigate environmental change across the ECN site.
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Identification
- Identifier
- NRW_DS115631
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- Monitro Llystyfiant yn Fanwl Iawn ar Safle RhNA Yr Wyddfa / Snowdon
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- English
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Fieldwork was mostly carried out between 25 September and 30 September with the final two plots recorded on 4 October 2005. There are 18 permanently marked fine-grain vegetation monitoring plots located at Yr Wyddfa/Snowdon, two in each of nine selected National Vegetation Classification communities found at the site. Plots are 10m x 10m in size and contain 10 randomly selected 40cm x 40cm cells. For each cell, the presence of all higher plants, bryophytes and lichens (except for those growing on wood or rock) was recorded. In addition, the presence of bare soil, rock, open water, leaf litter, dead wood and animal dung was also recorded. Leaf litter was defined as the presence of dead plant material in a thatch layer of variable thickness and extent, often from more than one season. For each plot slope, aspect, slope form and land use were recorded. For each cell a number of environmental variables were recorded. These include the presence of features such as animal tracks, walls, ditches, banks, streams and hedges.
- Dataset Reference Date (Publication)
- 2005-11-30
Temporal Extent
- Begin date
- 2005-09-25
- End date
- 2005-10-04
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- Biota
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Extent
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- Wales (WLS)
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A] The final report in Microsoft Word and Adobe PDF formats. [B] Species, plot and cell data in Excel Spreadsheet Formats
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Quality
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Fieldwork was mostly carried out between 25 September and 30 September with the final two plots recorded on 4 October 2005. There are 18 permanently marked fine-grain vegetation monitoring plots located at Yr Wyddfa/Snowdon, two in each of nine selected National Vegetation Classification communities found at the site. Plots are 10m x 10m in size and contain 10 randomly selected 40cm x 40cm cells. For each cell, the presence of all higher plants, bryophytes and lichens (except for those growing on wood or rock) was recorded. In addition, the presence of bare soil, rock, open water, leaf litter, dead wood and animal dung was also recorded. Leaf litter was defined as the presence of dead plant material in a thatch layer of variable thickness and extent, often from more than one season. For each plot slope, aspect, slope form and land use were recorded. For each cell a number of environmental variables were recorded. These include the presence of features such as animal tracks, walls, ditches, banks, streams and hedges.
Keywords
Keywords
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Citation
- Date (Publication)
- 2008-06-01
Keywords
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- vegetation (see also specific types eg.coastal or heathland vegetation and vegetation surveys)
- vegetation management
- Environmental Change Network Site (ECN Site)
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Citation
- Date (Publication)
- 2023-12-31
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Content
Content Information
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Fine-grain vegetation monitoring of Yr Wyddfa / Snowdon ECN site : a report prepared for Countryside Council for Wales
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There are no access restrictions to this data. NRW may release, publish or disseminate it freely.
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© CNC/NRW 2005 There are no use restrictions on this data. Recipients may re-use, reproduce, disseminate this data free of charge in any format or medium, provided they do so accurately, acknowledging both the source and NRW's copyright, and do not use it in a misleading context. It is the recipient's responsibility to ensure the data is fit for the intended purpose, that dissemination or publishing does not result in duplication, and that it is fairly interpreted. Advice on interpretation should be sought where required. To avoid re-using old data, users should periodically obtain the latest version from the original source.
Metadata
Metadata
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- 4f4c4942-4343-5764-6473-313135363331 XML
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- English
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- Dataset
- Metadata Date
- 2024-05-31T09:29:13.913Z
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- NRW
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1.0