

Abundance monitoring for other groups of organisms is well-established in the UK, e.g. Abundance data provide different insights into ecological pattern and allow for more powerful inference when considering environmental change. Volunteer-based plant monitoring in the UK has focused mainly on distribution mapping there has been less emphasis on the collection of data on plant communities and habitats. Roy, Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing 1 Smart, Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing, 5 and David B. Cheffings, Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing, 4 Niki Newton, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing, 4 Mark Jitlal, Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing, 1 John Redhead, Methodology, Resources, 1 Simon M. Walker, Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing, # 2 Felicity Harris, Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing, 3 Hayley New, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing, 3 Christine M. Pescott, Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing, # 1, * Kevin J.
