From: Differences between urban and rural hedges in England revealed by a citizen science project
Question category | Answer variables |
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Type of recording group | School, volunteer group, family or friends |
Weather | Sunny, cloudy but no rain, raining |
Location | |
Surrounding area | Urban, garden, park, school, farmland, grassland, wood or forest, other |
Land use on both sides of the hedge | Crops, grassland, hard surface (unspecified), garden, woodland, waterway, cannot see (other side) |
Structure of hedge | Bushes, bushes and trees, trees |
Gaps in hedge | None, a few, more gaps than hedge |
Hedge shape | Untrimmed, leggy, laid, neatly trimmed, heavily trimmed |
Features in the hedge | Fence, ditch, bank, undisturbed strip, wall |
Hedge height | In four categories from <1Â m to >3Â m |
Hedge width | In three categories from <1Â m to >2Â m |
Hedge length | In four categories from <5Â m to >50Â m |
Hedge plant species | Presence/absence of 12 woody species, (see Table 3) |
Numbers of berries, nuts or flowers | In four categories from <10 to >1000 |
Invertebrates | Counts of invertebrates in 24 named groups (see Table 4) |
Size of any holes in the ground | In five categories from <2Â cm to >30Â cm |
Other wildlife seen | Free text |