UK Habitats Directive Audit Trail for 77 Habitats (2007-2012)

77 terrestrial and marine habitats were assessed for the UK's 2013 report to the European Commission under the Habitats Directive. This dataset provides the supporting audit trail, explaining data derivation and caveats for each habitat-parameter combination. The Joint Nature Conservation Committee compiled these notes because the official EC reporting format lacked space for underlying information sources and reasoning.

Use Cases

• Analyze reporting methodologies and data sources for habitat conservation assessments based on the described audit trail parameters.
• Compare conservation status reasoning across 69 terrestrial and 8 marine habitats based on the supporting notes.
• Study the implementation of the EU Habitats Directive (Article 17) in the UK Atlantic region for the 2007-2012 period.

Strengths

• Explicitly covers 77 distinct habitats (69 terrestrial, 8 marine) within a defined reporting period (2007-2012).
• Provides essential context and caveats missing from the formal EC report format, as described.
• Data structure is defined with a separate row for each habitat and attribute/parameter combination.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last updated 2026-04-14 09:45:24.368361; freshness should be verified as the underlying report is from 2013.

Provenance

Source

Joint Nature Conservation Committee

Collection Method

Collated as supporting notes (audit trail) for the mandatory six-year Article 17 report to the European Commission.

Time Range

2007-2012

Freshness

Dataset metadata last updated 2026-04-14, but the core report data is from the 2013 submission covering 2007-2012.

Geography

United Kingdom Atlantic region (terrestrial and marine)