Identification

Title

Ground beetle (Carabidae) associations with UK Land Cover Map habitats

Abstract

The data are the habitat association (phi coefficient of association) of ground beetles (Carabidae) in Great Britain. The analysis used all 100 m carabid records from the NBN Atlas website for the analysis. The habitats are those from the CEH Land Cover Map 2015 (LCM2015) and for each beetle species each habitat has a score between 1 and -1 representing association through to disassociation and a p-value giving significance of the association score. The recommended output shows habitat weighted analysis using an absence threshold of fourteen other species. Five other versions are also provided, with thresholds of seven and 28 and the unweighted versions of the analysis, to allow the user to ascertain for themselves confidence in the association of a habitat to a species. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/ce0a6690-9277-4880-a20a-b30477bf8646

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/ce0a6690-9277-4880-a20a-b30477bf8646.zip

name: Supporting information

description: Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset

function: information

https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/datastore/eidchub/ce0a6690-9277-4880-a20a-b30477bf8646

name: Download the data

description: Download a copy of this data

function: download

Unique resource identifier

code

https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/ce0a6690-9277-4880-a20a-b30477bf8646

codeSpace

doi:

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

biota

environment

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Environmental Monitoring Facilities

originating controlled vocabulary

title

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2008-06-01

Keyword set

keyword value

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-8.648

East bounding longitude

1.768

North bounding latitude

60.861

South bounding latitude

49.864

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

End position

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2019-04-01

Frequency of update

notPlanned

Quality and validity

Lineage

Biological records of carabid beetles were sourced from the NBN atlas. habitats are those from Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH) Land Cover Map 2015 (LCM2015). Correlation indices were calculated for the carabids and habitats. A weighted version of the indices was calculated to allow the incorporation of carabid data from 100m squares that contain more than one habitat type. The NBN does not include absence data. To allow us to have confidence that a species was genuinely not at a particular location, we counted the number of other species found in each location as a measure of survey effort, using a threshold value for the number of species taken into account before deciding on whether the target species could be considered absent. The NBN data contained a separate record for each species at each relevant 100 m location meaning that individual locations appeared multiple times. We created a version of the data with each location represented once, giving presence or absence (absences determined as described above) for each species at that location. The datasets published include our recommended output, which shows habitat weighted analysis using an absence threshold of 14 other species. Versions with a threshold of seven and 28, and the unweighted versions of the analysis, are also included to allow the user to ascertain for themselves confidence in the association of a habitat to a species.

Conformity

Conformity report

specification

title

Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-12-08

degree

explanation

Data format

name of format

Comma-separated values (CSV)

version of format

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

If you reuse this data, you should cite: Chetcuti, J., Kunin, W.E., Bullock, J.M. (2019). Ground beetle (Carabidae) associations with UK Land Cover Map habitats. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/ce0a6690-9277-4880-a20a-b30477bf8646

owner

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

Environmental Information Data Centre

full postal address

Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg

Lancaster

LA1 4AP

email address

info@eidc.ac.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2023-02-09T11:09:06

Metadata language

eng