Data Searches

ABReC offers a data request service to environmental consultants and other commercial users.  For this we charge a fee based on the estimated amount of work involved.  We will be happy to provide a quote if you send us details of your requirements.  Please send your enquiry to records@abrec.org.uk

We can produce reports listing the records we hold from a specified search area, together with their conservation designations.  The report can list all records, including those without designations, or can be limited to ones with designations.  You can request records from a given date range (e.g. all records from within the last 20 years) or with no time limit.

We can also provide details of international, national and local designated sites (statutory and non-statutory) that overlap the seach area.  Habitat data can be supplied where this is available.

Argyll contains many remote locations that are uninhabited and seldom visited.  These will sometimes have very few records, although we are working hard to put this right by organising recording expeditions to such places.  If you ask us for a data search for an area that we do not have good coverage of, we will inform you of this before proceeding.  If the search returns no results that meet your criteria, we will send a report which states this fact, and this can be used in your own report to your clients.  The fee we have agreed with you will still be payable.

We accept data requests for any site within vice-counties 98, 101, 102 & 103.

For non-commercial users, please note that any of our data that you require for your own use can be freely downloaded from the NBN Atlas. 

Golden Spindles (Clavuilnopsis fusiformis), a fungus of unimproved grasslands, a habitat declining across Europe but still common in Argyll.  Photo © Sallie Jack.