Programme
Biological Records Centre (overview)
The Biological Records Centre (BRC), established in 1964, is the national focus in the UK for terrestrial and freshwater species recording (other than birds). It works with the voluntary recording community throughout Britain and Ireland. The BRC database contains nearly 13 million records of more than 12000 species.
General Information
- Objectives
- Supporting and developing capacity of recording schemes and volunteers. This programme includes the fundamental and core activities of supporting the national recording schemes, helping them to acquire and manage resources for their development, and it links to the development of the NBN. This will remain a major part of BRCs work. Data capture and database management. This includes setting standards for biological recording, seeking novel types of data, including quadrat data for plants, harmonizing BRC data with those collected by Country Agencies and others, delivery of data via the NBN Gateway. Targeted survey. This programme comprises setting up and helping to manage schemes in which there is a high training element, and which are geared to answer specific questions. There has been good experience with recent examples of this approach, including the Survey of Bryophytes on Arable Land carried out with the British Bryological Society. Analysis and interpretation. The programme will include development of indicators, environmental data collation, compiling and utilising species attributes, interpreting causes of observed changes. Communications and outreach. This will include identifying flagship species for wider recording via high profile schemes and the Internet, as well as some European liaison to strengthen links with other countries.
- Environmental domain
- Biosphere
- Purpose Of collection
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Innovation/advancing science
Statuory advice
Policy
Legislative - Keywords
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biodiversity
volunteers
citizen science
BRC
Biological recording standards
NBN
recording schemes - Lifespan
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From 1964-01-01
Location
- Bounding box
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Contacts
- Lead organisation
- Biological Records Centre CEH Wallingford Maclean Building, Crowmarsh Gifford Wallingford OXON OX10 8BB UK brc@ceh.ac.uk 01491 692 564 http://www.brc.ac.uk
- Other
- Joint Nature Conservation Committee City Road Peterborough CAMBRIDGESHIRE PE1 1JY UK 01733 562626
- Other
- Centre for Ecology & Hydrology OXON UK +44(0)1487772400
- Lead funder
- Natural Environment Research Council North Star Avenue Swindon WILTSHIRE SN2 1EU United Kingdom +44 (0)1793 411500 http://www.nerc.ac.uk
- Funder
- Joint Nature Conservation Committee City Road Peterborough CAMBRIDGESHIRE PE1 1JY United Kingdom 01733 562626 http://www.jncc.gov.uk
Metadata
- Publication status
- PUBLIC
- Record identifier
- 3b629e66-acf0-40fc-8e5d-8c2f5c91d1a4
- Last modified
- 2017-11-03 08:49:54
- Metadata author
- Biological Records Centre brc@ceh.ac.uk
- Other identifier
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Envirobase 1320743
UKEOF 452955