North Merseyside Local Species Data (DEFRA Grant 23169)

Merseyside BioBank

Description

These data have been compiled from various sources as a result the DEFRA grant for releasing data under a license which permits commercial use. Data included here have been through a targeted process of validation and verification making use of established in-house validation and verification procedures. Records have only been included where permission has been granted by data suppliers to release these data for this purpose.

Geographic Description

Records were collected for a variety of reasons and are sourced from a number of different surveys. Many are the results of casual recording but also include structured surveilance and monitoring.

Purpose

Records were collected for a variety of reasons and are sourced from a number of different surveys. Many are the results of casual recording but also include structured surveilance and monitoring.

Data quality

Data have been collated from a variety of locally held sources and using a variety of methods. The majority of records within this dataset have been through a formal process of verification using locally recognised taxonomic experts (usually local representatives of a national scheme or society) where this has not been possible the NBN Record Cleaner been used to remove records of a dubious nature.

Methods

Most of these records were provided by data-suppliers in electronic formats – mostly spreadsheets – which we manipulated and then imported to Recorder 6 via the import tool. Others were captured by Merseyside BioBank staff and volunteers from a variety of paper sources.

Citation

Merseyside BioBank ([Insert download year]). North Merseyside Local Species Data (DEFRA Grant 23169). Occurrence dataset on the NBN Atlas

Rights

CC BY

Digitised records