Priority River Habitat - Headwater Areas

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Summary

One of the two datasets that make up the Priority River Habitat Map. Under the UK BAP definition all headwaters potentially form part of the priority habitat definition. The headwater resource can be a significant proportion of the river habitat network, accounting for the large majority of total river length. The headwater areas selected as most natural by land cover comprise a relatively large proportion of the upland headwater resource but a very small proportion of the lowland resource. The headwater analysis is the least certain component of the naturalness analysis – for example, highly natural headwater streams running through very small catchment areas, often wooded, would not be detectable by the analysis that has been undertaken. Equally, land cover is a crude measure of naturalness and various types of impact on river habitat are not well correlated with it (e.g. abstraction pressure, point source pollution). These issues can only be addressed through local interpretation of the final priority habitat map. Attribution statement: © Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right [year].

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priority_river_habitat_headwater_areas_england_WMS N/A 18 December 2023 Not available
priority_river_habitat_headwater_areas_england_WFS N/A 18 December 2023 Not available
priority_river_habitat_headwater_areas_england_DOWNLOAD N/A 18 December 2023 Not available
Priority_River_Habitat_-_Headwater_Areas_ESRI_REST_Feature_Server_Endpoint N/A 18 December 2023 Not available
ArcGIS Open Dataset record page N/A 18 December 2023 Not available
Priority_river_habitat_in_England.url N/A 18 December 2023 Not available
Priority_Rivers_Habitat_Headwater_Areas_England.lyr N/A 18 December 2023 Not available
PriorityRiverHabitatHeadwaterAreasEngland-TAB.zip ZIP 18 December 2023 Not available
PriorityRiverHabitatHeadwaterAreasEngland-SHP.zip ZIP 18 December 2023 Not available
PriorityRiverHabitatHeadwaterAreasEngland-MID_MIF.zip ZIP 18 December 2023 Not available
PriorityRiverHabitatHeadwaterAreasEngland-KML.zip ZIP 18 December 2023 Not available
PriorityRiverHabitatHeadwaterAreasEngland-GML.zip ZIP 18 December 2023 Not available
PriorityRiverHabitatHeadwaterAreasEngland-GeoJSON.zip ZIP 18 December 2023 Not available
PriorityRiverHabitatHeadwaterAreasEngland-FGDB.zip ZIP 18 December 2023 Not available
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Data_Gov_UK_Metadata_Priority_River_Habitat_Headwater_Areas_England.url N/A 18 December 2023 Not available

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Added to data.gov.uk
2023-12-18
Access contraints
There are no public access constraints to this data. Use of this data is subject to the licence identified.
Harvest GUID
f7035004-45fa-4f9e-bb62-4f6a0b5380ab
Extent
Latitude: 55.81° to 49.86°
Longitude: -7.05° to 2.07°
Spatial reference system
http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/27700
Dataset reference date
2015-09-03 (creation)
2017-07-10 (publication)
Frequency of update
notPlanned
Responsible party
Natural England (pointOfContact)
ISO 19139 resource type
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Metadata language
eng
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