Biological Records Data Holdings

ERCCIS own, collates and manages a huge amount of data relating to the natural environment of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, and as of the start of 2016 ERCCIS manages over 5,750,000 biological records.

ERCCIS owns or hosts nine databases with all the data available for release being brought together via the ERCCIS Wildlife Information Service Reports.  There are three main types of biological data holdings at ERCCIS; those that we directly own or manage (for example records held in the Recorder6 or the ORKS databases); those that we host (for example datasets owned by a biological recording schemes or society, like the Cornwall Mammal Group datasets) and those datasets that we have internal access to via a data exchange or data use agreements (for example the mycology societies dataset). 

Due to the complexity of the surveys and biological records datasets hosted at ERCCIS it is not feasible to list all of the datasets we host.  To help biological recorders get an overview of the available information, please see the table demonstrating the spatial and temporal resolution of our biological data holding by species group.  Also, you can view the distribution of the top 10 species groups (by number of biological records) which are: Flowering Plants; Birds; Moths; Butterflies; Mosses; Ferns; Fungi; Diptera; Molluscs and Terrestrial Mammals.

If you require more information on the biological records held at ERCCIS please contact the Data Manager or the Data Officer.