Cwm Idwal Surveillance data
This dataset currently contains the first year's recorded data following the establishment of a long-term vegetation surveillance system at Cwm Idwal National Nature Reserve (NNR). An earlier programme of intensive surveillance was undertaken at Cwm Idwal during 1999-2004 in response to the long term exclusion of grazing. This current surveillance project involves the establishment of a new, less intensive surveillance programme based on just eleven of the original plots, which will be repeated at three year intervals. The dataset includes a summary of plot frequency data, summary statistics for each species/feature, digital photographs, general observations on the eleven plots and plot identification sketches. The purpose of this data capture was to inform large-scale restoration projects in other parts of the Welsh uplands and provide information on the effects of such management decisions for the restoration of upland sites.
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Identification
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- NRW_DS110470
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- English
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This work was commissioned following an earlier programme of intensive surveillance between 1999 and 2004 (see separate metadata entry entitled 'Cwm Idwal vegetation change surveillance project 1999-2004'). A number of the original landscape photographs have also been replicated, whilst a further series of additional views have also been taken from new vantage-points. All photography employed a Digtial SLR camera of 6.0 megapixels resolution. Eleven plots from the 1999-2004 surveillance projects were chosen either because they were located in transitional zones between vegetation types or in localities where changes were expected or desired. The eleven plots employ the same quadrat locations as those originally used. Presence/absence of selected species were recorded as were occurrences of bare ground, exposed peat, rock, litter, sheep/goat droppings and any other notable feature using a standard recording card. The data from these cards were then entered into excel spreadsheets. At least two photographs were taken of each plot and one of every quadrat recorded. Differential GPS was used to records plot and quadrat positions.
- Dataset Reference Date (Publication)
- 2007-01-01
Temporal Extent
- Begin date
- 2006-01-01
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- Environment
- Biota
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- GWYNEDD - GWYNEDD
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- Wales (WLS)
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The full data are available in digital form, results in terms of plot means of individual quadrats for groupings based on broad divisions are presented in the report. [A] Report- paper hardcopy, Word [B] Raw data in Excel on CCW upland ecologist hardrive and on CD in TSG Archives [C] Digital images
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- Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
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This dataset has not been assessed for conformance to the referenced INSPIRE regulation.
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This work was commissioned following an earlier programme of intensive surveillance between 1999 and 2004 (see separate metadata entry entitled 'Cwm Idwal vegetation change surveillance project 1999-2004'). A number of the original landscape photographs have also been replicated, whilst a further series of additional views have also been taken from new vantage-points. All photography employed a Digtial SLR camera of 6.0 megapixels resolution. Eleven plots from the 1999-2004 surveillance projects were chosen either because they were located in transitional zones between vegetation types or in localities where changes were expected or desired. The eleven plots employ the same quadrat locations as those originally used. Presence/absence of selected species were recorded as were occurrences of bare ground, exposed peat, rock, litter, sheep/goat droppings and any other notable feature using a standard recording card. The data from these cards were then entered into excel spreadsheets. At least two photographs were taken of each plot and one of every quadrat recorded. Differential GPS was used to records plot and quadrat positions.
Keywords
Keywords
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- Date (Publication)
- 2008-06-01
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- Snowdonia (Eryri)
- Eryri cSAC (Eryri SAC)
- grazing exclusions
- vegetation composition
- grazing pressure
- Cwm Idwal
- sheep grazing
- surveillance
- Cwm Idwal NNR
- vegetation surveys (vegetation monitoring)(see also biologicalsurveys)
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- Date (Publication)
- 2026-08-27
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Cwm Idwal surveillance
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There are no access restrictions to this data. NRW may release, publish or disseminate it freely.
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© CNC/NRW Data may be re-used under the terms of the Open Government Licence providing it is done so, acknowledging both the source and NRW's copyright. It is the recipient's responsibility to ensure the data is fit for the intended purpose.
Metadata
Metadata
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- 4f4c4942-4343-5764-6473-313130343730 XML
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- English
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- Dataset
- Metadata Date
- 2026-09-28T13:59:42.483Z
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- NRW
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1.0