Irish Spatial Data Exchange
The monitoring and assessment of three EU Habitats Directive Annex I grassland habitats
The monitoring and assessment of three EU Habitats Directive Annex I grassland habitats, referred to as the Grassland Monitoring Survey (GMS), was a three-year survey conducted from 2015 to 2017 by BEC Consultants on behalf of NPWS. One hundred and ten EU Annex I grassland sites were monitored, 55 sites were monitored for the 6210/*6210 habitat, 33 sites for the 6410 habitat, and 22 sites for 6510. The number of GMS survey sites surveyed for each of the grassland habitats reflected their relative abundance and the110 sites were selected to represent the range of the three habitats.
The study involved mapping the Annex I grassland habitats and collecting botanical and structural data from each site. Impact and activity data were also collected at each site. Surveying was by a combination of monitoring stops and full releves. Survey data have been stored in an Access database, monitoring stop and releve data are in a Turboveg database, and two ArcMap shapefiles hold habitat polygon and monitoring stop/releve point data.
Simple
- Alternate title
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Grasslands Monitoring Survey 2015-2017
- Date (Publication)
- 2018-04-11
- Citation identifier
- https://data.gov.ie/dataset/ / The monitoring and assessment of three EU Habitats Directive Annex I grassland habitats
- Purpose
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As well as field surveys, a review was carried out of the methodology and assessment criteria used in the baseline survey of O'Neill et al. (2013). Sites were surveyed according to the revised methodology, and criteria. Monitoring stops were recorded in the 6210/*6210, 6410 and 6510 habitats to assess Structure and functions. Full releves (species lists and percentage cover) were carried out for all monitoring stops assessed in 2015 and 2016, in 2017 full releves were recorded where there was no baseline releve but for all other monitoring stops only the basic Structure and functions assessment criteria were recorded. This change in the methodology was to increase the survey rate during 2017. Impacts and activities were recorded to assess Future prospects and an overall conservation assessment was carried out for each site.
Along with other data sets collected during the current reporting period the GMS data were used to complete the National Conservation Assessments for the three Annex I grassland habitats and update the GIS files used to the fulfill reporting requirements under the Article 17 of the EU Habitats Directive.
- Status
- Completed
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
National Parks and Wildlife Service
Point of contact
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Species distribution
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GEMET - Concepts, version 4.2.3
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biota, biodiversity, grassland ecosystem, habitat, flora
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National Parks and Wildlife Service
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National Parks and Wildlife Service, NPWS, habitat, grassland, plant, Habitats Directive, biodiversity
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ISO 3166
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Ireland
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- Use limitation
- Use limitation
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
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Copyright Government of Ireland. This dataset was created by National Parks and Wildlife Service, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage. This copyright material is licensed for re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Denominator
- 50000
- Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Environment
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- Begin date
- 2015-05-29
- End date
- 2018-04-11
Vertical extent
- Minimum value
- 0
- Maximum value
- 1014
Vertical CS
Vertical datum
- Reference system identifier
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https://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/2157
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2157
EPSG Geodetic Parameter Dataset EPSG 2009-11-25
- Distribution format
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Name Version Esri shapefile
v10+
- Distributor contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
National Parks and Wildlife Service
Point of contact
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name pdf
https://www.npws.ie/sites/default/files/publications/pdf/IWM%20102%20Annex%201%20Grasslands.pdf
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name zip
https://www.npws.ie/sites/default/files/general/ISGS15_01.zip Laptop
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Conformance result
- Title
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INSPIRE Data Specification on Provide Spatial Data Theme keyword
- Alternate title
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INSPIRE Data Specifications v3.0
- Date (Publication)
- 2011-06-15
- Explanation
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The INSPIRE Directive or INSPIRE lays down a general framework for a Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) for the purposes of European Community environmental policies and policies or activities which may have an impact on the environment.
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- No
Conformance result
- Title
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COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
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INSPIRE Interoperability Regulation
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
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Level of conformance with the COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
- Pass
- No
- Statement
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Digitised from field maps created in the field during the GMS 2015-17 survey. The shapefile is an updated version of the baseline Irish Semi-natural Grasslands Survey (ISGS) and in addition to the polygons surveyed during the GMS all Annex I and Fossitt (2000) habitats surveyed during the baseline ISGS are also retained in the shapefile.
Polygon shapefile in ITM projection of all 6210/*6210, 6410, and 6510 polygons surveyed and mapped during GMS 2017. The shapefile is an updated version of the baseline Irish Semi-natural Grasslands Survey (ISGS) and in addition to the polygons surveyed during the GMS Annex I and Fossitt (2000) habitats surveyed during the baseline ISGS are also retained in the shapefile.
Metadata
- File identifier
- 34a76a57-25dd-43d5-b756-56f735458a80 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2023-11-29T15:15:00
- Metadata standard name
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ISDI Metadata Profile
- Metadata standard version
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1.2
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage
National Parks and Wildlife Service
Author
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