Irish Spatial Data Exchange
Grasslands Monitoring Project 2006
The Grassland Monitoring Project 2006 represents the initial phase of a larger grassland survey which is designed to meet the monitoring and conservation objectives of the Habitats Directive.
The Grassland Monitoring Project 2006 is initially focusing on the two priority Annex I grassland habitats: *Semi-natural dry grasslands and scrubland facies on calcareous substrates (Festuco-Brometalia) (6210) and *Species-rich Nardus grasslands on siliceous substrates in mountain areas (6230). The project concentrated on the assessment of these two categories only within those candidate Special Areas of Conservation (cSACs) which list either of these two grassland habitats as qualifying interests, where an assessment of Representativity is deemed to be C or higher.
The assessment and monitoring structure employs rapid and simple assessment techniques, deriving information from vegetation surveys and from assessments of threats and management practices.
The results of the survey indicate that the condition of semi-natural dry calcareous grasslands (and orchid-rich semi-natural dry calcareous grasslands) in Ireland is generally poor. Of the 31 sites assessed, the Structure and Functions of the grassland was considered favorable at only two sites (6%). In fact, the Structure and Functions at 21 of the sites (68%) were deemed to be unfavorable bad with the remaining eight sites (26%) considered unfavorable inadequate.
The results of the survey indicate that the condition of species-rich Nardus grassland in Ireland is generally poor. In fact, the Structure and Functions of the grassland was considered unfavorable – bad at all 7 sites.
Simple
- Alternate title
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Grasslands Monitoring Project 2006
- Date (Publication)
- 2023-05-17
- Citation identifier
- https://data.gov.ie/dataset/ / Grasslands Monitoring Project 2006
- Purpose
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The purpose of the project is to record botanical data on semi-natural grasslands. The study focuses on habitat 6210 (Semi-natural dry grasslands and scrubland facies on calcareous substrates (Festuco-Brometalia)) and habitat 6230 (Species-rich Nardus grasslands on siliceous substrates in mountain areas (and submountain areas, in Continental Europe)). Occasionally, data on habitats with a minor grassland component were also recorded (i.e. Mosaic of scrub/bracken and calcareous grassland).
There are data records in 13 counties, in the north, south, east and west of Ireland.
- 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
- 2006-05-01
- End date
- 2006-09-30
Vertical extent
- Minimum value
- 0
- Maximum value
- 1014
Vertical CS
Vertical datum
- Reference system identifier
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http://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 zip
https://www.npws.ie/sites/default/files/general/GMNP06.zip
- 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.
- Pass
- 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
- Explanation
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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
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- No
- Statement
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Polygon shapefile showing distribution and extension of grasslands habitats or habitats with some grassland component. The area surveyed includes 13 counties, clustered in the center of Ireland.
Metadata
- File identifier
- 9edccb06-da11-4d8c-83ba-882d4b5a3784 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2023-11-14T15:36:40
- 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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