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The National Plant Monitoring Scheme: A Technical Review 2019

Abstract

The National Plant Monitoring Scheme, co-ordinated by the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland, the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, JNCC and Plantlife, was launched in 2015, and is based on volunteer recording according to a set protocol at pre-determined monads selected through a weighted-random sampling scheme. The approach and specific methodology was agreed following several years of development by experts, and is summarised in Pescott et al. (2019) and on the NPMS website.

Following two years of NPMS data collection, the NPMS partnership carried out this review of the scheme, documenting how its establishment is progressing, and exploring how the accumulating data could be analysed, and the scheme put to best use.

Resource type Publication

Topic category Environment

Reference date 2019·10·01

Citation
Pescott, O.L., Walker, K.J., Jitlal, M., Smart, S.M., Maskell, L., Schmucki, R., Day, J., Amos, C., Peck, K., Robinson, A. & Roy, D.B. (2019) The National Plant Monitoring Scheme: A Technical Review. JNCC Report No. 622, JNCC, Peterborough, ISSN 0963-8091.

Lineage
The National Plant Monitoring Scheme was launched in 2015 to provide an indication of the status and trends of plants and semi-natural habitats across the UK.

Responsible organisation
Communications, JNCC publisher

Limitations on public access No limitations

Use constraints Available under the Open Government Licence 3.0

Metadata date 2019·10·10

Metadata point of contact
Communications, JNCC

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