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• Setting biodiversity monitoring objectives

  Clear monitoring objectives are essential to ensure the effectiveness of any biodiversity monitoring process. Clear objectives ensure the collection of relevant data, resource allocation, and...

  • Published by: Joint Nature Conservation Committee
  • Updated: 1 December 2024

• Review of monitoring biodiversity effectively at differing scales

  This report aims to provide guidance for developing coordinated, multi-scale biodiversity monitoring, based on approaches that have been undertaken previously. The report begins by highlighting the...

  • Published by: Joint Nature Conservation Committee
  • Updated: 1 January 2024

• Bathing Waters Monitoring Locations

  The Environment Agency collects and analyses water samples each year from May to September, to ensure that designated bathing water sites on the coast and inland are safe and clean for swimming and...

  • Published by: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 14 May 2024

• Historic UK Water Quality Sampling Harmonised Monitoring Scheme Summary Data

  This record is for Approval for Access product AfA178.The Historic UK Water Quality Sampling Harmonised Monitoring Scheme (HMS) data contains statistics for a series of water quality sampling sites...

  • Published by: Environment Agency

• 25 Year Environment Plan Outcome Indicator E7: Healthy soils – Progress report

  Healthy soils are critical for the delivery of ecosystem services such as food production, water regulation, biodiversity support, and carbon storage. Maintaining soil health is crucial for soils...

  • Published by: Joint Nature Conservation Committee
  • Updated: 31 March 2024

• Seagrass Taxa and Abundance

  This record is for Approval for Access product AfA128. Information regarding the presence, and percentage cover, of seagrass species at specific marine monitoring points held within the Environment...

  • Published by: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 13 March 2024

• Saltmarsh Species

  This record is for Approval for Access product AfA131. Information regarding the presence, and percentage cover, of saltmarsh angiosperms (flowering plants) at specific marine monitoring points...

  • Published by: Environment Agency

• Modelled projections of habitat for commercial fish around North-western Europe under climate change, 2020 to 2060

  Environmental Niche Model (ENM) outputs for 49 commercial fish species under climate change until the decade of 2060 around northwestern Europe. A model ensemble of 5 ENMs was used (MaxEnt,...

  • Published by: Centre for Environment, Fisheries & Aquaculture Science
  • Updated: 11 December 2023

• Great Crested Newt - Risk Zones (Norfolk & Suffolk)

  This dataset identifies areas where the distribution of great crested newts (GCN) has been categorised into zones relating to GCN occurrence and the level of impact development is likely to have on...

  • Published by: Natural England
  • Updated: 5 June 2024

• Species Surveys - Protected and Invasive Species Records Collected Through Environment Agency Survey 1970 - 2021

  This is for Approval for Access product AfA225. Protected and invasive species of interest to the Environment Agency surveyed and collected during our monitoring activities including location and...

  • Published by: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 29 March 2022

• Occurrences of sensitive fish species in scientific trawl surveys of the Northeast Atlantic 1983-2020

  The OSPAR (https://www.ospar.org/convention_) fish biodiversity assessment concerns sensitive and often rare species in the northeast Atlantic Ocean and marginal seas. All fish species captured...

  • Published by: Centre for Environment, Fisheries & Aquaculture Science
  • Updated: 26 May 2023

• Surface Water Temperature Archive up to 2007

  This record is for Approval for Access product AfA214. Water temperature data is collected and stored by the Environment Agency for different reasons and in different locations. Time series of...

  • Published by: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 1 January 2009

• Historical Bathing Water Quality at Designated Beaches 1988 - 2014

  This dataset is an archive of data relevant to the old Bathing Water Directive (76/160/EEC) and won't be updated now the directive is no longer in force. For the latest bathing water quality...

  • Published by: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 25 November 2014

• Cost effective methods to measure extent and condition of habitats: Earth Observation Phase 3

  Report contains data that can be used under Open Government Licence.

  Phase 1 of the Making Earth observation work for conservation series of research projects created the Crick Framework, which...

  • Published by: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs

• GCN - Strategic Opportunity Areas (Norfolk & Suffolk)

  This dataset identifies areas where the addition of new ponds would benefit Great Crested Newt populations.

  The core areas contain a pond density of 2+ ponds and are located within a 1km square...

  • Published by: Natural England
  • Updated: 5 June 2024

• Historic GQA Headline Indicators of Water Courses - Biology

  This record is for Approval for Access product AfA161. The General Quality Assessment (GQA) Headline Indicator scheme or GQAHI (previously known as GQA) was the Environment Agency's national...

  • Published by: Environment Agency

• Saltmarsh Extent & Zonation

  Saltmarsh Extent and Zonation Summary:

  The Saltmarsh Extent & Zonation V4_10 layer was mapped from aerial photography collected predominantly between 2016 and 2019.

  Dataset Description:

  Polygon...

  • Published by: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 7 October 2025

• A data product derived from Northeast Atlantic groundfish data from scientific trawl surveys 1983-2020

  This is a data product to support state indicators that are based from groundfish biological data, derived using primary data from surveys undertaken in the Northeast Atlantic between 1983 and...

  • Published by: Centre for Environment, Fisheries & Aquaculture Science
  • Updated: 26 May 2023

• Summarised Botanical Value Map (England)

  The Summarised Botanical Value Map for England is a map identifying areas likely to be rich in high quality habitat based on BSBI vascular plant records.

  Under the Natural Capital and Ecosystem...

  • Published by: Natural England
  • Updated: 19 June 2023

• WFD River Waterbody Catchments Cycle 2

  The WFD River Waterbody Catchments Cycle 2 are a polygon dataset collated as defined for the implementation of the Water Framework Directive. Catchments are defined as an area of land from which...

  • Published by: Environment Agency
  • Updated: 30 October 2014