A National Vegetation Plot Database for Great Britain

Zeke Marshall; Claire Wood; Ed Mountford; John Rodwell; Ian Strachan; Oli Pescott; Irina Tatarenko; John Hodgson; Kevin Walker; James Latham; Lindsay Maskell; Andrea J. Britton; Robin J. Pakeman; Tom Dargie; Ruth Mitchell; Laurence Jones; Alison Hester; Louise Ross; Sarah Dalrymple; Carly Stevens; Ed Rowe; Frances McCullagh; Stephen Willis; Rob Marrs; Lisa Norton; Simon M. Smart

doi:10.3897/VCS.160378

A National Vegetation Plot Database for Great Britain

Zeke Marshall^*
, Claire Wood
, Ed Mountford
, John Rodwell
, Ian Strachan
, Oli Pescott
, Irina Tatarenko
, John Hodgson
, Kevin Walker
, James Latham
, Lindsay Maskell
, Andrea J. Britton
, Robin J. Pakeman
, Tom Dargie
, Ruth Mitchell
, Laurence Jones
, Alison Hester
, Louise Ross
, Sarah Dalrymple
, Carly Stevens

Ed Rowe, Frances McCullagh, Stephen Willis, Rob Marrs, Lisa Norton, Simon M. Smart

^*Corresponding author for this work

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The GBNVPD (GIVD-code EU-GB-007) is the new centralised repository for the collection and storage of standardised vegetation plot data in Great Britain and the Crown Dependencies. The initial version of the GBNVPD (v1.0) described in this long database report comprises data from 63 individual sources and contains 277,070 samples from 200,733 plots, with a total of 4,463,300 occurrences of 4,086 accepted taxa (3,464 accepted species), surveyed between 1949 and 2024. Of the 63 constituent datasets 52 are newly submitted to the EVA and 9 to ReSurveyEurope. The database is available under a discretionary mixed-access regime and will be maintained and updated continuously in response to further digitisation of historic paper records, collection of pre-existing digitised survey data, and addition of future survey data. Abbreviations: EVA = European Vegetation Archive; GB = Great Britain; GBNVPD = National Vegetation Plot Database for Great Britain and the Crown Dependencies; NVC = National Vegetation Classification; UKCEH = United Kingdom Centre for Ecology and Hydrology; UKSI = United Kingdom Species Inventory.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	181-190
Number of pages	10
Journal	Vegetation Classification and Survey
Volume	6
Early online date	15 Dec 2025
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3897/VCS.160378
Publication status	First published - 15 Dec 2025

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European Vegetation Archive (EVA)
National Vegetation Classification (NVC)
ReSurveyEurope
vegetation plot database
vegetation survey

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Marshall, Z., Wood, C., Mountford, E., Rodwell, J., Strachan, I., Pescott, O., Tatarenko, I., Hodgson, J., Walker, K., Latham, J., Maskell, L., Britton, A. J., Pakeman, R. J., Dargie, T., Mitchell, R., Jones, L., Hester, A., Ross, L., Dalrymple, S., ... Smart, S. M. (2025). A National Vegetation Plot Database for Great Britain. Vegetation Classification and Survey, 6, 181-190. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.3897/VCS.160378

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