Lincolnshire Environmental Records Centre
Introduction
Lincolnshire Environmental Records Centre
A Local Records Centre is a not-for-profit service run in partnership for the public benefit, which collects, collates, manages and disseminates information of known quality relating to the wildlife, wildlife sites and habitats for a defined geographical area.
The Lincolnshire Environmental Records Centre (LERC) is part of a national network of Local Records Centres (LRCs).
Aims
- To act as a one-stop-shop for biodiversity information in Lincolnshire.
- To work in partnership with all local recorders.
- To provide a biodiversity information service, at a local level, to local authorities, statutory bodies, and other organisations.
Why records are important
- To locate important wildlife sites in the county, especially those supporting protected species.
- To find new sites for species and habitats.
- To monitor changes in the populations of species or areas of habitats, for example as a result of climate change.
- To enable local authorities, public and private organisations, and individuals to make well-informed decisions.
Data collation, management and updating
- Protected and priority species. Its aim is to hold, or have access to, all available data for protected and national/local BAP species.
- The distribution of priority and other habitats. Its aim is to hold, or at least have access to, all available data relating to semi-natural and BAP priority habitats.
- All statutory designated, non-statutory designated, and other known sites. Its aim is to hold site definitions and digital boundaries for all classes of land of recognised nature conservation importance.
- Other species found in Lincolnshire, including invasive non-native species and those migrating as a result of climate change.
Further Information
Our information sheet, data request form and other supporting documentation can be downloaded from the Documents link in the LERC section.
If you have species records you can submit them to us through the links in the Submitting Records link in the Getting Involved section.
