Service Description: This dataset identifies areas where the predicted distribution of water voles and has been categorised into zones relating to water vole occurrence and the level of impact development is likely to have on this species.
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Description: This dataset identifies areas where the predicted distribution of water voles and has been categorised into zones relating to water vole occurrence and the level of impact development is likely to have on this species.
Red zones contain stronghold populations of water voles, which are regionally important as defined by the number of observation records, connectivity importance, mean habitat suitability analysis score, area size, and length of watercourse within the area. These criteria were normalized and summed to rank their importance. The top 5% of sites were selected as red zones.
Amber zones contain predicted suitable habitat for water voles (incorporating 90% of de-biased observations) and comprise important connecting habitat that aids natural dispersal. Amber areas are smoothed and where other amber areas are within 250m, these are connected.
Green zones contain sparsely distributed water voles within 10m of a watercourse or inland water object.
White zones are not predicted to contain resident water voles.
This data needs to be available to local planning authorities, community stakeholder groups, as well as the general public more broadly to ensure transparency of the water vole pilot process.
Data used to generate this derived data set includes:
- National Soils Map (NATMAP),
- OS MasterMap,
- OS Boundary Line District Boundaries,
- OS Water Network,
- Land Cover Map 2021 (25m rasterised land parcels, GB): Marston, C.; Rowland, C.S.; O’Neil, A.W.; Morton, R.D. (2022). Land Cover Map 2021 (25m rasterised land parcels, GB). NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/a1f85307-cad7-4e32-a44584410efdfa70
- Water vole observation data - Mammal Society
© Natural England, 2023.;Based upon Land Cover Map 2021 © UKCEH 2022. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown Copyright 2007, Licence number 100017572.; Contains, or is derived from, Soils Data © Cranfield University (NSRI) and for the Controller of HMSO 2020. Based upon LCM2007 © NERC (CEH) 2011. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown Copyright 2007. © third party licensors. Contains, or is derived from, information supplied by the Ordnance Survey and Rural Payments Agency. © Crown copyright and database rights 2019.; Contains, or is derived from, information supplied by Ordnance Survey. © Crown copyright and database rights 2020 Ordnance Survey 100022021.
Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right, 2020.; ©Mammal Society, 2022
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