Ecological landscape elements: long-term monitoring in Great Britain, the Countryside Survey 1978–2007 and beyond
- C. M. Wood
- R. G. H. Bunce
- L. R. Norton
- L. C. Maskell
- S. M. Smart
- W. A. Scott
- P. A. Henrys
- D. C. Howard
- S. M. Wright
- M. J. Brown
- R. J. Scott
- R. C. Stuart
- J. W. Watkins
DOIAbstract
The Countryside Survey (CS) of Great Britain (GB) provides a unique and statistically robust series of datasets, consisting of an extensive set of repeated ecological measurements at a national scale, covering a time span of 29 years. CS was first undertaken in 1978 to provide a baseline for ecological and land use change monitoring in the rural environment of GB, following a stratified random design, based on 1 km squares. Originally, eight random 1 km squares were drawn from each of 32 environmental classes, thus comprising 256 sample squares in the 1978 survey. The number of these sites increased to 382 in 1984, 506 in 1990, 569 in 1998 and 591 in 2007. Detailed information regarding vegetation types and land use was mapped in all f...
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