AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
JNCC Data Inventory (Public) - July 2018

This dataset is a workbook that contains a public inventory of data assets maintained or held by the Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC). The inventory includes but is not limited to datasets published as open data.

This inventory has been published in accordance with the Government's transparency agenda and JNCC's Open Data Policy, and is intended to encourage enquiries about availability of data produced by JNCC. However please note that some of the data listed in the inventory may not be eligible for publication or release by JNCC due to third party rights, environmental sensitivity, or for other reasons.

The inventory is based mainly on an extract of records in JNCC's Topcat metadata catalogue. Topcat is not yet a complete view of JNCC's data assets and the public inventory may omit some data assets that will be added in later versions. The public inventory also excludes: (a) datasets that mainly contain personal data or are held for purposes of JNCC's internal administration (such as human resources records), (b) most datasets that belong to third parties and are held under licence for use in JNCC's work, and (c) reports produced in document formats including PDFs.

For more information about JNCC's Open Data Policy please see http://jncc.defra.gov.uk/opendata.

Tags: Corporate, Transparency
Organization: Joint Nature Conservation Committee
UKSeaMap 2016 broad-scale habitat map and confidence maps

UKSeaMap 2016 has been generated by JNCC and is a by-product of the 2013-2016 activities of the EMODnet Seabed Habitats 2013-2016 consortium. This dataset contains two products: a roughly 100 m* resolution broad-scale predictive seabed habitat map in geodatabase format, and a set of confidence maps in GeoTIFF format. The data has been clipped to cover the current extent of the UK continental shelf.

* 3 arc second = 93 m latitudinally by between 44 m (north) and 53 m (south) longitudinally

Classification system:

• EUNIS habitat classification system (http://jncc.defra.gov.uk/page-3365), with additional deep sea zones
• MSFD predominant habitats
• The Marine Habitat Classification for Britain and Ireland (http://jncc.defra.gov.uk/page-1584)
 
Input data layers:

• Seabed substrate type
• Depth to the seabed
• Amount of light reaching the seabed
• Wave disturbance at the seabed
• Kinetic energy at the seabed caused by tidal currents and waves

A detailed description of the method used to create the EMODnet Seabed Habitats broad-scale habitat maps can be found in the EUSeaMap technical report on the EMODnet Seabed Habitats website: http://www.emodnet-seabedhabitats.eu/resources/documents/.

Tags: EUNIS, Marine, Seabed Habitats and Geology, UKSeaMap
Organization: Joint Nature Conservation Committee
Open Data Pathway - Maturity Model Results 2018

This dataset is an Excel workbook containing results from JNCC's completion of the Open Data Institute's Open Data Pathway assessment of open data maturity in May 2018, updated in November 2018. The data includes the questions posed by the model, the answers provided, the resulting scores per section as well as summary scores and the suggested improvements provided by the model.

For background on the model see ODI's Open Data Pathway site: http://pathway.theodi.org/.

Tags: Data Management, Maturity Model, Open data, Terrestrial, Transparency
Organization: Joint Nature Conservation Committee
Marine Pressures-Activities Database (PAD) v1.1

Note: a newer version of this database (v1.2, 2018) is available.

Coastal and marine ecosystems are subject to a number of human-induced pressures associated with a variety of marine activities. As such it is important to understand the links between human activities and pressures and the evidence behind such links. 

In 2013 JNCC compiled an activities-pressures matrix which identified 39 human use activity categories and 34 human pressure types. In 2015, Defra commissioned a project, led by ABPmer, to develop the evidence base for understanding the relationships between these human activities and pressures within the marine environment.

A database has been created to record the outputs of the literature review, including the collated evidence for links between the human activities and sub-activities and the relevant pressures. This database has been released in MS Access format and as a collection of tables in an Excel workbook.

For more information about the Matrix see the information on JNCC's website:

Marine activities and pressures evidence
http://jncc.defra.gov.uk/default.aspx?page=7136

and this 2015 Defra report:

Validating an Activity-Pressure Matrix
http://randd.defra.gov.uk/Default.aspx?Menu=Menu&Module=More&Location=None&Completed=0&ProjectID=19471

Tags: Aquaculture, Coastal defence & land claim protection, Coastal development, Conservation & environmental protection, Cultural and heritage sites (Wrecks), Dredge and spoil disposal, Extraction of genetic resources, Extraction – Navigational dredging (capital & main, Extraction – Sand and gravel (aggregates), Extraction – Water (abstraction), Fishing, Gas storage operations (carbon capture & natural g, Harvesting, Human Activities, Industrial and agricultural liquid discharges, Marina, Marine, Marine Research, Military activities, Municipal waste, Port, Power station incl. nuclear, Pressures, Quarrying (mining), Recreational activities, Renewables - Tidal, Renewables - Wave, Renewables - Wind, Sewerage disposal, Shipping – General (at sea), Shipping – Port operations, Submarine cable and pipeline operations, UK marine human activities, Waste gas emissions
Organization: Joint Nature Conservation Committee
Crick Framework: a systematic description of the potential for the use of Earth Observation in habitat mapping

The Crick Framework provides a way to categorise how well Earth Observation (EO) techniques can be used to identify particular habitats and features on the ground and detailed information on what is possible or what has been done, for each habitat.

There are a wide range of interacting factors that have to be considered in order to differentiate vegetation types and habitats from EO. These factors have been considered, along with ecological knowledge, to develop a generic classification system that proposes categories (tiers) of habitat groups. This set of tiers is the first and most accessible component of the Crick Framework, providing a categorisation for habitats, based on existing ability to map and monitor them using EO, with or without ancillary data sets. The framework has been designed to consider Biodiversity Action Plan (BAP) Priority habitats and Habitats Directive Annex I habitats. 

As well as the classification tiers, the Framework contains detailed descriptions of the potential for the use of EO in mapping and relevant features of that habitat that need to be considered when using EO. A detailed description is provided for each BAP Priority and Annex I habitat.

The Framework was developed within the Making Earth Observation Work for UK Biodiversity (MEOW) project. For more information see: [https://jncc.gov.uk/our-work/the-crick-framework/](https://jncc.gov.uk/our-work/the-crick-framework/).

Tags: Earth Observation, Habitats Directive - Annex I, Terrestrial
Organization: Joint Nature Conservation Committee
River Macrophytes Database

The JNCC River Macrophytes Database (RMD) is a Microsoft Access database constructed to house data on the plant communities of rivers in Great Britain and Northern Ireland. An extract in Excel format is also provided. The RMD includes data from over 7,000 survey sites and is the most comprehensive database of its kind. Data have been collected from all over the UK between 1977 and the present day, following the methods of Holmes et al. (1999).

The macrophyte survey method records aquatic and marginal plants in a 500 m-long survey section of river. Species from the river channel and the margins/base of the bank are recorded separately on a three-point scale of relative abundance and percentage cover. A standard check-list of species is used to aid recording. The field data can be used to classify the plant community as described by Holmes et al. (1999), and the database has a facility that allows keying-out of the community to sub-type level. This plant community classification has been used as the basis of river SSSI selection (see chapter 6 of Guidelines for Selection of Biological SSSIs). The database also holds a small amount of fish data.

The RMD is an ‘active’ database (i.e. survey records can still be added). However, with a new standard method of river plant survey now being adopted by the UK conservation agencies (i.e. the LEAFPACS method), it is likely that less surveys will be added in future, and it may develop into more of a 'legacy' database.

In 2011 the RMD was made available through the JNCC website with some restrictions on re-use. In June 2018, JNCC re-published the RMD as open data under the Open Government Licence. In November 2019 the invertebrate survey records were removed whilst some of these records underwent further validity checks.

Background information on the classification system:

Holmes, N.T, Boon, P.J., & Rowell, T.A. Vegetation communities of British rivers - a revised classification (1999)
Link to the Vegetation communities of British rivers on the JNCC Resource hub: https://hub.jncc.gov.uk/assets/a974944a-3cd4-4574-9c1a-c977d482c0ed

Tags: Freshwater, Terrestrial, UK Biodiversity
Organization: Joint Nature Conservation Committee
All UK Special Protected Areas (SPAs) with marine components

This spreadsheet contains Special Protection Areas (SPAs) with marine components are defined as those sites with qualifying Birds Directive (2009/147/EC) Annex I species or regularly occurring migratory species that are dependent on the marine environment for all or part of their lifecycle, where these species are found in association with intertidal or subtidal habitats.

The definition of SPAs with marine components is set out in the following paper:
http://jncc.defra.gov.uk/pdf/MN2KPG16_13_MN2KDefs.pdf

PLEASE NOTE -  through ongoing UK MPA stocktake work (http://jncc.defra.gov.uk/page-7438) the SPA qualifying interest features that are considered 'marine' (as opposed to terrestrial-only) are being reviewed. Furthermore, the recommendations of the 2001 SPA review are at different stages of implemention in the UK (particularly with regard to the submission of updated site details to the European Commission, upon which this dataset depends). Therefore the "SPA Marine Interest Features" of inshore SPAs provided here may not be the latest data on SPA features formally adopted by the respective Statutory Nature Conservation Bodies (Natural England, Natural Resources Wales, Scottish Natural Heritage and Department of Agriculture, Environment & Rural Affairs (Northern Ireland); the relevant Statutory Nature Conservation Bodies should be contacted for the latest data on inshore SPA marine qualifying interest features. This issue does not apply to offshore SPAs and SPAs classified or amended in 2017, for which this dataset is fully up-to-date.

The SPA Sites worksheet lists the sites with marine components and their reference attributes. This includes: Site code, Site name, Site status, Country, CP2 Region, Feature type, Marine interest features, Common name, Population type and Annex I/ROMS. Please note that habitats are not listed as qualifying interest features of SPAs but are documented in section 4.1 (General site character) of the Standard Natura 2000 Data Form. For this reason we list marine habitats in SPAs separately in the SPA Marine Habitats worksheet.

This dataset is supported by a shapefile available at: http://jncc.defra.gov.uk/ProtectedSites/SACselection/gis_data/terms_conditions.asp

Tags: Marine, Protected Areas, SPA
Organization: Joint Nature Conservation Committee
All UK Special Areas of Conservation (SACs) with marine components

This spreadsheet contains the most up to date version of boundaries of inshore and offshore SACs with marine components, including sites that straddle the inshore/offshore (territorial seas) boundary. Special Areas of Conservation (SACs) with marine components are defined on the basis of the presence of Habitats Directive Annex I habitat and/or Annex II species interest features that are associated with the marine environment. A list of these features can be found here http://jncc.defra.gov.uk/page-4166 and the definition of SACs with marine components is set out in the following paper:  http://jncc.defra.gov.uk/pdf/MN2KPG16_13_MN2KDefs.pdf 
 
The Annex I “marine” habitats were classified according to the Conservation (Natural Habitats, &c.) Regulations 1994 in which “marine areas” are defined as those areas of land covered (continuously or intermittently) by tidal waters, or any part of the sea. The Annex II “marine” species were defined as those dependent on the marine environment for all or part of their lifecycle.  Some species and habitats may only be associated with the marine environment under certain circumstances and in certain sites – this is described in more detail below.
 
One or more of these marine habitats/species must be present as a qualifying feature (see below) within the SAC for it to be defined as a SAC with marine components. Some coastal SACs may not contain any marine habitats/species and so these are not included here. Other coastal SACs may contain a mixture of marine and non-marine features – only the marine features are listed in this spreadsheet but the Non-marine interest features column on the SAC Sites worksheet indicates where additional non-marine features are protected in that site.

Data covers: Site code, Site name, Site status, Country, CP2 Region, Feature type, Qualifying marine interest features and Lay title or common name.

This dataset is supported by a shapefile available at: http://jncc.defra.gov.uk/ProtectedSites/SACselection/gis_data/terms_conditions.asp

Tags: Marine, Protected Areas, SAC
Organization: Joint Nature Conservation Committee
Special Protection Areas (SPAs) with marine components (all UK waters)

This resource contains boundary, site and feature information for Special Protection Areas (SPAs) with marine components in UK waters. A shapefile and spreadsheet are available for download.

Special Protection Areas (SPAs) with "marine components" protect bird species that are dependent on the marine environment for all or part of their lifecycle, where these species are found in association with intertidal or subtidal habitats within the site. More information on SPAs with marine components can be found on our [website](https://jncc.gov.uk/our-work/spas-with-marine-components/). SPAs with marine components are a subset of the UK's full suite of SPAs – data for all UK SPAs can also be downloaded from our [website](https://jncc.gov.uk/our-work/uk-protected-area-datasets-for-download). 

JNCC collates boundary and attribute data on Special Protection Areas (SPAs) on behalf of the Country Nature Conservation Bodies (CNCBs) to create a dataset of inshore and offshore sites across the UK. The shapefile dataset contains site boundaries and associated site attribute information, including: site code, site name, site status, country and CP2 region. The spreadsheet dataset provides the same site attribute data as well as information on the sites' protected features (including species name and population type).

Please note:

- the CNCBs periodically update SPA boundaries (e.g. when natural features of the coastline shift position) and these subtle changes may not be captured in JNCC’s datasets. For the latest inshore SPA boundaries, please visit the relevant [CNCB website](https://jncc.gov.uk/our-work/uk-marine-protected-area-datasets-for-download/#further-information-on-marine-protected-areas-in-inshore-waters).

- the recommendations of Third SPA review are at different stages of implementation in the UK, therefore the marine interest features of inshore SPAs (listed in the spreadsheet) may not be up-to-date. To obtain the latest lists of qualifying interest features formally adopted in inshore SPAs, please contact the relevant CNCBs. The features of offshore SPAs are fully up-to-date.

For further information please see the shapefile metadata and spreadsheet read-me (within the files).

Tags: Marine, Natura 2000, Protected Areas, offshore, polygon
Organization: Joint Nature Conservation Committee
A decision framework to attribute atmospheric nitrogen deposition as a threat to or cause of unfavourable habitat condition on protected sites

This report describes the development of a decision framework to provide a means of attributing nitrogen deposition as a threat to, or cause of, unfavourable habitat condition on protected sites.

The UK’s semi-natural habitats exceed their atmospheric nitrogen (N) deposition critical load ranges across much of their area, and survey data suggests there are adverse impacts of this excess N deposition.  However, information from Common Standards Monitoring (CSM) of protected sites does not appear to identify N deposition as a potential cause of unfavourable condition at many sites.  A decision framework was developed to provide a means of attributing N deposition as a threat to, or cause of, unfavourable habitat condition on protected sites. The framework provides a practical methodology for assessing the impacts of N deposition on protected sites in an objective way, which was previously lacking. It is based on a sound conceptual approach, and is both robust and flexible enough to cope with additional information. 

The framework is described in the main report, whilst the detailed methodology is included in the supporting annexes. 

* Annex 1: Strength of “theoretical/national” evidence (Work Package 1 report) – this describes in detail the scoring of national/theoretical evidence to derive an Exceedance Score.
* Annex 2: Strength of site-based evidence (Work Package 2 report) – this describes in detail the site-based evidence used to derive a score for strength of site-based evidence (Factor 2)
* Annex 3: Matrix design, testing and recommendations (Work Package 3 report) – this describes the version of the matrix as recommended by the contractors, provides recommendations for future work (the key recommendations from this are summarised in this main report), and briefly describes the testing undertaken as part of Work Package 3. 

The accompanying zipped folder includes:
* Factor 1 spreadsheet (Exceedance Score) – this spreadsheet incorporates the elements of WP1 which generate the exceedance score for each CSM habitat (and sub-habitat) based on a user-defined deposition; guidance for utilising the spreadsheet is given in Annex 1. 
* Factor 2 spreadsheets (N indicators) – these spreadsheets display the results of a review of all targets for each CSM habitat and the identification of strong and weak N indicators; guidance for the spreadsheets is given in Annex 2. 
* Final assessment matrix – this Word Document provides a copy of the final assessment matrix.

Tags: 579, Atmosphere, JNCC Publications, Pressures, Terrestrial, Unclassified
Organization: Joint Nature Conservation Committee
UK Offshore Marine Protected Areas

The following spreadsheet holds information on all offshore Marine Protected Areas in the UK (beyond 12 nautical miles from baseline). These include Marine Conservation Zones (MCZs), Nature Conservation Marine Protected Areas (NCMPAs) and Special Areas of Conservation (SACs) with marine components and Special Protection Areas (SPAs) with marine components.  This also includes sites that cross the inshore/offshore waters (territorial seas) boundary. It was updated in May 2018 - for details of the update please see the Version Control sheet.

Data includes: Site code, Site name, Site status, Country, CP2 Region, Feature type (broad), Feature type (specific), Marine features protected, Common name and Population type.

A shapefile supports this dataset: Offshore MPAs.

Tags: Marine, Marine Protected Area, Offshore, Protected Areas
Organization: Joint Nature Conservation Committee
Archived UK Offshore Marine Protected Areas

The following spreadsheet holds information on all offshore Marine Protected Areas in the UK (beyond 12 nautical miles from baseline). These include Marine Conservation Zones (MCZs), Nature Conservation Marine Protected Areas (NCMPAs) and Special Areas of Conservation (SACs) with marine components and Special Protection Areas (SPAs) with marine components.  This includes sites that cross the inshore/offshore waters (territorial seas) boundary. It also includes the update to the status of five offshore sites designated as full SACs. This version also follows the UK's submission of revised Natura2000 Standard Data Forms to the European Commission in Dec 15. Following the designation of Tranche 2 MCZ on 18/01/2016, sites listed as proposed were updated to designated. The also includes new offshore designations for Harbour Porpoises.

Data includes: Site code, Site name, Site status, Country, CP2 Region, Feature type (broad), Feature type (specific), Marine features protected, Common name and Population type.

Tags: Marine, Marine Protected Area, Offshore, Protected Areas
Organization: Joint Nature Conservation Committee
Greater Haig Fras rMCZ Habitat Features of Conservation Importance

Habitat Features of Conservation Importance (FOCI) within the Greater Haig Fras recommended Marine Conservation Zone (rMCZ).

Habitat FOCI for the Greater Haig Fras recommended Marine Conservation Zone (rMCZ)were identified from an updated habitat map (GHGF_20150310_BSH_Draft) [GB001518], resulting from an integrated analysis of acoustic and ground truth survey data collected in 2011, 2012 and 2014 at the Greater Haig Fras (rMCZ).

Tags: GB001519, Grabs, Local, Marine, Multibeam echo sounder, Seabed Habitats and Geology, Video Tows
Organization: Joint Nature Conservation Committee
UK Marine Noise Registry Outputs for 2016

This publication contains maps, associated data tables and shapefiles from the 2016 data in the UK Marine Noise Registry (MNR; [https://mnr.jncc.gov.uk/](https://mnr.jncc.gov.uk/)).

When using and/or interpreting the MNR output maps and spatial data, users should take into account the caveats in the enclosed document C20180413_MNRPBDMapsCaveats2016_UKEEZ.docx.

These maps display the distribution and duration of impulsive underwater noise events and the associated activity types contributing to these events, across UK marine waters, for the calendar year beginning January 1st 2016. 

Noise events are mapped in pulse block days (PBD), using the UK oil and gas licensing grid, which consists of a series of blocks measuring 10 minutes latitude by 12 minutes longitude. A PBD is when at least one noise event (between the frequencies of 10 Hz and 10 kHz) has occurred within a block on a particular day.

Tags: EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive, Impulsive Noise, JNCC Publications, Marine, UK MNR, UK Marine Noise Registry
Organization: Joint Nature Conservation Committee
UK Regional Seas 2004

This spatial dataset contains UK Regional Seas polylines developed by JNCC in 2004 as part of the Review of Marine Nature Conservation and the implementation of Regional Sea around the UK.

The data may be used under the Open Government Licence with the following attribution: Contains JNCC data © copyright and database rights 2004 derived in part from bathymetry © GEBCO Digital Atlas, British Oceanographic Data Centre on behalf of IOC and IHO 1994 & 1997.

For more information please see JNCC's paper 'Developing regional seas for UK waters using biogeographic principles', enclosed with the data and available online: http://jncc.defra.gov.uk/page-1612.

Tags: Base Maps, Marine, boundaries
Organization: Joint Nature Conservation Committee