When planning your recording it can be very helpful to group records by monad (or another grid-square unit) to see where the gaps in recording effort are. However, empty grid-squares are not automatically returned by the standard grouping search. There is an easy fix!
- First group records by grid-square (e.g. monad)
- Set your area of interest (e.g. vice-county)
- Set up the group by option by clicking the more options button, then: grouping > group by
- Click the button by the group by option that has appeared, then: localities > monad (or your preferred unit).
This groups the records by monad. To then include empty monads in your search return do as follows:
- Click the more options button again, then: grouping > include empty grid-squares
- Your search page will then show a group by option set to your chosen unit (e.g. monad), and underneath it an include empty grid squares option with a checkbox ticked
Running the search now will return records from your area of interest (e.g. vice-county), grouped by grid-square but also listing those grid-squares with no records.
Below is an example, set to Stirlingshire and grouping records by monad (including blank squares).
To include an estimate of survey coverage, under more options > grouping > sub-divide by choose surveyed days as the subdivision and raise the taxon threshold (for example, to 40 species.)
