National Plant Monitoring Scheme - Northern Ireland
National Plant Monitoring Scheme
Description
The National Plant Monitoring Scheme (NPMS) is a habitat-based plant monitoring scheme designed by BSBI, CEH, Plantlife and JNCC. The aim is to collect data to provide an annual indication of changes in plant abundance and diversity. This dataset includes NPMS species occurrence data for Northern Ireland; a companion, but separate dataset is supplied for England, Wales, Scotland.
Geographic Description
Northern Ireland
Purpose
The aim of the NPMS is to collect data to provide an annual indication of changes in plant abundance and diversity.
Data quality
Records are available for verification by regional experts through the iRecord system (records may or may not have supporting photographs). The current verification status of each record is propagated to the Atlas, and updated accordingly.
Methods
For a full description of the methods used in the NPMS, see the NPMS website http://www.npms.org.uk) and the technical documents and papers linked therein.
Citation
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Rights
OGLOpen Government Licence
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Plant occurrence data within this dataset have been degraded to the 1 km squares of the Irish grid.
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Digitised records
Looking up... the number of records that can be accessed through the NBN Atlas. This resource was last checked for updated data on 01 Nov 2018. The most recent data was published on 01 Nov 2018.
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Licence
Open Government Licence 3.0 