A benchmark survey of the common plants of South Northumberland and Durham, United Kingdom.

ABSTRACT:

Background

It is obvious to anyone studying plants in the landscape that man-made environmental change is having profound effects on the abundance, distribution and composition of plant communities. Nevertheless, quantifying these changes and estimating the impact of the different drivers of change is extremely difficult. Botanical surveying can potentially provide insights to the changes that are occurring and inform decisions related to conservation, agriculture and forestry policy. However, much of botanical surveying is conducted in such a way that it is not comparable between dates and places. Any comparison of historical and modern data has to account for biases in the recording of different taxonomic groups, geographic biases and varying surveying effort in time. In 2010 bot

SUBMITTER: Groom QJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4699291 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature