United Kingdom Butterfly Monitoring Scheme: site location data 2021
[THIS DATASET HAS BEEN WITHDRAWN]. This dataset provides the details of all sites on which butterflies have been monitored as part of the UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme (UKBMS). This includes all standard UKBMS transect sites, Wider Countryside Butterfly Survey (WCBS) sites and targeted species survey sites (timed counts, single-species transects, larval web and egg counts). Data includes the location within the UK, the length and number of sections for the butterfly transect on each site and the number of years each transect has been monitored. The location of some sites are sensitive and are excluded from this dataset. Users requiring access to the complete dataset, including sensitive site location data, can submit a request via the UKBMS website. The UKBMS started in 1976 with fewer than 50 sites. Since then the number of sites monitored each year has increased to several thousand. There are new sites each year and a small number where the transect is no longer surveyed. Details of this are provided in the site dataset in the form of the first and last year in which each site was surveyed. The majority of site data is provided by recorders at the time a transect is created. Site data are crucial in order to determine where extra recording effort is required and to investigate where butterfly populations are changing most and thus where conservation should be targeted, including across different habitat types. The UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme is organized and funded by Butterfly Conservation (BC), the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH), the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO), and the Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC). The UKBMS is indebted to all volunteers who contribute data to the scheme. This work was supported by the Natural Environment Research Council award number NE/R016429/1 as part of the UK-SCAPE programme delivering National Capability. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/1cb8f31e-5c09-473c-96e6-ea4047d324a2
dataset
https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/1cb8f31e-5c09-473c-96e6-ea4047d324a2.zip
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description: Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset
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https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/1cb8f31e-5c09-473c-96e6-ea4047d324a2
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eng
biota
Environmental Monitoring Facilities
publication
2008-06-01
annual
Biodiversity
butterflies
England
Lepidoptera
Northern Ireland
Scotland
UK-SCAPE
United Kingdom
Wales
-8.648
1.768
60.861
49.864
2021-04-01
2021-09-30
publication
2022-11-21
Site location data provide details about the linear transect at each UKBMS site. Data on the location and length and width of each transect are provided by the recorder for each site. Data on how long each transect has been monitored is calculated as the time period between when a transect was first and last monitored.
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2010-12-08
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Contains UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme (UKBMS) data © copyright and database right Butterfly Conservation, the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, British Trust for Ornithology, and the Joint Nature Conservation Committee.
If you reuse this data, you should cite: Botham, M.S., Middlebrook, I., Harris, S., Harrower, C., Lowe, M., Roy, D.B. (2022). United Kingdom Butterfly Monitoring Scheme: site location data 2021. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/1cb8f31e-5c09-473c-96e6-ea4047d324a2
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Butterfly Conservation
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Butterfly Conservation
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