Grassland Fungi Mapping Database for Scotland

• Published by: Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot
• Last updated: 14 February 2024
• Topic: Not added
• Licence: Other Licence ; View licence information

Summary

This database and mapping tool was produced to allow the identification of sites important to this incredibly diverse range of grassland fungal species for which Scotland is important on a global scale. Promotion of this project could lead to a great amount of these vulnerable sites being managed for their waxcaps, leading directly to the conservation of biodiversity, including several species on the Scottish Biodiversity List.

Included layers: Heatmap of grassland fungi to the 10km level. The fewest species per square is represented by the lightest colour and the highest species per square represented by darkest colour. ADVICE: This layer is ideal for giving an overview of records in the area, but it doesn’t mean the fungi are throughout the area, or that the whole area is unimproved grassland.

Heatmap of grassland fungi to the 1km level. The fewest species per square is represented by the lightest colour and the highest species per square represented by darkest colour. ADVICE: 1km grid square layer may provide a false picture and a blank square does not necessarily mean that no grassland fungi are there. Accurate georeferencing of biological records before the age of GPS and specialist phone apps was rare with many blocks of records being given the same centroid grid reference. Also, it would be common for many recorders to record the first find of a species on a site and none thereafter. THE 10KM SQUARE SHOULD BE LOOKED AT ALONGSIDE THIS LAYER.

Point layer showing the Waxcap Sites. Sites are based centroid grid references for a spread of records in the area. The sites do not have clear boundaries, and so some form of local habitat knowledge is needed to set actual site boundaries within the real-world boundaries of unimproved grassland. • RED: Any site passing any of the SSSI thresholds • AMBER: Any site not passing any of the SSSI thresholds but with more than 11 species of Hygrocybe s.l. or with more than 4 IUCN species or with more than 4 indicator species. • GREEN: Any other site that has records of grassland fungi

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• Standardised counts of bacteria, fungi and micro eukaryotes abundances across geo-linked sampling locations on grassland, UK (2016)

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Data links

Link to the data	Format	File added	Data preview
NatureScot OpenData Hub	N/A	14 February 2024	Not available
Geopackage with QGIS project (EPSG:27700)	ZIP	14 February 2024	Not available
ArcGIS Desktop Map package	ZIP	14 February 2024	Not available
ArcGIS Pro map package (EPSG:27700)	ZIP	14 February 2024	Not available
habitatsandspecies:gfmdb_waxcap	N/A	14 February 2024	Not available
habitatsandspecies:gfmdb_10km	N/A	14 February 2024	Not available
habitatsandspecies:gfmdb_1km	N/A	14 February 2024	Not available
gfmdb_waxcap	N/A	14 February 2024	Not available
gfmdb_1km	N/A	14 February 2024	Not available
gfmdb_10km	N/A	14 February 2024	Not available

Additional information

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• Added to data.gov.uk: 2024-02-13
• Access contraints: CC-NC with an understanding that: 1. The database that the records will contribute to will be available for use free of charge to members of the public and the public and private sector. NatureScot will not sell this data. 2. Analysis will not be performed by NatureScot for the private sector further than is publically available 3. Individual recorders/record providing groups will be acknowledged in the publically available report that will published alongside the database and its tools. However you may not be acknowledged in the database itself, or in any derivatives made by data users.
• Harvest GUID: 37abaaf1-d1f1-4430-b8fe-5560c436a525
• Extent: Latitude: 60.83583° to 54.65294°
• Extent: Longitude: -9.145907° to -0.749242°
• Spatial reference system: 27700
• Dataset reference date: 2023-10-01 (creation)
• Dataset reference date: 2024-02-12 (publication)
• Frequency of update: notPlanned
• Responsible party: NatureScot (pointOfContact)
• ISO 19139 resource type: dataset
• Metadata language: eng
• Source Metadata: XML
• Source Metadata: HTML

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