Soil Biodiversity Group (NHM) Earthworm Records (Great Britain)

Earthworm Society of Britain

Description

This dataset includes all earthworm records generated by research projects of the Soil Biodiversity Group at the Natural History Museum London from 2001 to 2016.

Geographic Description

Records from Great Britain only. Records ranged across England, Scotland and Wales. A few projects included wide geographical spread, though most involved intensive sampling within small geographic areas. Records were provided at varying degrees of resolution (from 100m squares up to 1km squares). All records were submitted to the NBN with no access constraints.

Data quality

ESB verification status: All records are 'Considered correct'. The ESB has not verified individual records with the determiners, though it should be noted that the many of the determiners are recognised and respected earthworm taxonomists and ecologists. Data should therefore be checked against original sources before use in contentious circumstances. The data has not been checked using NBN Record Cleaner. The range of each of the British earthworm species is not currently known.

Methods

Records result from a range of data capture methods (and this is recorded in the 'Method' field where known).

Citation

Soil Biodiversity Group (NHM) Earthworm Records (Great Britain), (2018)

Rights

Soil Biodiversity Group, Natural History Museum London

Digitised records

Metadata last updated on 2019-10-08 08:00:07.0