Habitat Data
We hold a large library of habitat data for the two counties including the West Sussex aerial interpretation phase 1 data. Data are usually stored in our GIS, but we also have biotope point data stored in Recorder 6. Here is a list of the habitat data we hold or have access to:
Priority Habitats
Follow the links for a definition of the habitat
- Ancient and/or species-rich hedgerows
- Cereal field margins
- Chalk rivers
- Coastal and floodplain grazing marsh
- Coastal saltmarsh
- Coastal sand dunes
- Coastal vegetated shingle
- Eutrophic standing waters (pond data)
- Fens
- Lowland calcareous grassland
- Lowland heathland
- Maritime cliff and slopes
- Mudflats
- Reedbeds
- Saline lagoons
- Wet woodland/Floodplain Forest
Special to Sussex non-BAP
- Ghyll Woodland
- Sandstone outcrops
- Roadside verges
- Urban areas
- Ancient Woodland
Other Habitat Data
- West Sussex phase 1 (aerial interpretation – 2001)
- South Downs East Sussex phase 1 (aerial interpretation – 1999)
- South Downs habitat potential model