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Family lineage and landscape quality data for wild bumblebee colonies across an agricultural landscape in Buckinghamshire, U.K.

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Environmental Information Data Centre
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30 July 2026
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Summary

Family lineage relationships between spring queens, daughter workers and sister queens of three bumblebee species (Bombus terrestris, B. lapidarius and B. pascuorum) collected across the Hillesden Estate, Buckinghamshire, UK, between spring 2011 and spring 2012. A combination of land-use and habitat surveys, molecular genetics and spatial modelling was used to estimate the locations of wild colonies represented by greater than 1 worker and to calculate the proportions of cover represented by different habitat quality and land-use variables within four spatial scales from each colony location. Data were collected as part of a project led by the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, funded under the Insect Pollinators Initiative. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/6be00174-6544-4156-b1df-8678f6df2034

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Source Metadata
XML, HTML
Date added
25 July 2026
Harvest GUID
6be00174-6544-4156-b1df-8678f6df2034
Extent (Latitude)
60.861° to 49.864°
Extent (Longitude)
-8.648° to 1.768°
Dataset reference date (publication)
2016-07-07
Dataset reference date (creation)
2016-06-30
Frequency of update
notPlanned
Access constraints
© UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, University of Bristol, ZSL Institute of Zoology, University of East Anglia
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(author, pointOfContact, publisher, custodian)
ISO 19139 resource type
dataset
Metadata language
eng

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