Phase 2 Woodland Survey of Wales
Natural Resources Wales
The primary aim of the project was to complete woodland community descriptions of all Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSls) in Wales that have semi-natural woodland as a qualifying feature. There was also a need for some survey of woodland on SSSls where woodland is not the outright qualifying feature and some areas of non-SSSI woodland (primarily pSSSI and areas of woodland adjacent to existing SSSls).
This dataset contains detailed Phase 2 survey data from over 800 woodlands of conservation interest in Wales, predominantly SSSI and pSSSI woodlands. The purpose of this data capture was to improve the overall knowledge of Welsh woodland communities, to provide consistent community descriptions across the woodland SSSI series as fundamental site-support information and to assess SSSI status of new sites. Phase 2 woodland surveys have been carried out periodically since the late 1980s but a concentrated period of survey on SSSI and pSSSI woodland occurred from 1995 and 2000. Data was collected by trained personnel, digitised by contractors, validated by CCW Knowledge Management Group, corrections made by contractors, validated again by CCW Knowledge Management Group, corrections made in-house in conjunction with Woodland Ecologist.
Standard woodland NVC survey methodology was used to collect this data. Woodland communities were identified by eye and mapped, supported by sample quadrats and target notes. Dataset is a collation of CCW commissioned NVC surveys.
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Contains Natural Resources Wales information © Natural Resources Wales and Database Right. All rights Reserved. Contains Ordnance Survey Data. Ordnance Survey Licence number AC0000849444. Crown Copyright and Database Right.
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Spatial data (4)
- Quadrats
- Vegetation
- Surveys
- Sites
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Or display data on an existing map
- Type:
- Spatial data
- Category:
- Environment
- Publication date:
- 19 January 2024
- Licence:
- Open Government Licence for Public Sector Information (OGL)
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Copyright:
- Point of contact:
- opendata@naturalresourceswales.gov.uk
- Language
- English