Leicestershire and Rutland Protected and Conservation Priority/BAP Species [Archived]
Leicestershire and Rutland Environmental Records Centre
Description
This dataset contains all electronic records of protected and conservation priority species held by LRERC. Species included are those listed on Schedule 1 (part 1&2), Schedule 5, sect 9 and Schedule 8 of the Wildife and Countryside Act, Annexe 2, 4 & 5 of the Habitats and Species Directive, Biodiversity Action Plan species, the England NERC List and Local (Leicestershire and Rutland) Biodiversity Action Plan Species. It does not include data on Badgers. It is collated from a number of sources.
Geographic Description
VC55 (Leicestershire and Rutland). Mainly at 100m resolution although only publically available at tetrad level.
Purpose
Various. Collated to bring together records for important species in VC55.
Data quality
This is not a comprehensive dataset.
Data may not have been validated by the county recorder, but is considered valid using LRERCs validation policy.
Grid References have been checked using the NBN Record Cleaner to ensure that all records are within the county boundaries.
Methods
All records are considerd to be at least 'Perfectly valid, no argument,species may not be of substantial importance to warrant extensive validation processes'. The data is from LRERCs man database which is collated from a number of sources. LRERC holds additional attribute data, not included in this dataset, on the records.
A significant proportion of the bird records are from the Leicestershire and Rutland Ornithological Society
Citation
No citation information available.
Rights
CC-BY-NC
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