A database of Defra statutory biodiversity metric unit values for terrestrial habitat samples across England, with plant, butterfly and bird species data|生物多样性评估数据集|环境规划数据集

Policies requiring biodiversity no net loss or net gain as an outcome of environmental planning have become more prominent worldwide, catalysing interest in biodiversity offsetting as a mechanism to compensate for development impacts on nature. Offsets rely on credible and evidence-based methods to quantify biodiversity losses and gains. Following the introduction of the United Kingdom’s Environment Act in November 2021, all new developments requiring planning permission in England are expected to demonstrate a 10% biodiversity net gain from 2024, calculated using the statutory biodiversity metric framework (Defra, 2023). The metric is used to calculate both baseline and proposed post-development biodiversity units, and is set to play an increasingly prominent role in nature conservation nationwide. The metric has so far received limited scientific scrutiny.
This dataset comprises a database of statutory biodiversity metric unit values for terrestrial habitat samples across England. For..., Study sites
We studied 24 sites across the Environmental Change Network (ECN), Long Term Monitoring Network (LTMN) and Ecological Continuity Trust (ECT). Biodiversity units were calculated following field visits by the authors, whilst species data (response variables) were derived from long-term ecological change monitoring datasets collected by the sites and mostly held in the public domain (Table S1).
We used all seven ECN sites in England. We selected a complementary 13 LTMN sites to give good geographic and habitat representation across England. We included four datasets from sites supported by the ECT where 2 x 2m vascular plant quadrat data were available for reuse. The 24 sites included samples from all terrestrial broad habitats (sensu Defra 2023) in England, except urban and individual trees: grassland (8), wetland (6), woodland and forest (5), sparsely vegetated land (2), cropland (2), heathland and shrub (1). Non-terrestrial broad habitats (rivers and lakes, marine inlets and..., Microsoft Excel/Open Office, # A database of Defra statutory biodiversity metric unit values for terrestrial habitat samples across England, with plant, butterfly and bird species data

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Policies requiring biodiversity no net loss or net gain as an outcome of environmental planning have become more prominent worldwide, catalysing interest in biodiversity offsetting as a mechanism to compensate for development impacts on nature. Offsets rely on credible and evidence-based methods to quantify biodiversity losses and gains. Following the introduction of the United Kingdom’s Environment Act in November 2021, all new developments requiring planning permission in England are expected to  demonstrate a 10% biodiversity net gain from 2024, calculated using the statutory biodiversity metric framework (Defra, 2023). The metric is used to calculate both baseline and proposed post-development biodiversity units, and is set to play an increasingly prominent role in nature conservation nationwide. The metric has so far recei...