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Species richness and recording priority derived from species distribution models for Lepidoptera in Great Britain

Publisher
Environmental Information Data Centre
Updated
30 July 2026
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Summary

This dataset includes a set of modelled outputs produced as part of the DECIDE project. Three groups were modelled; butterflies, day-flying moths and night-flying moths. (For the moths, we only considered 'macro-moths'.) For each group there are three outputs; species richness, model variability and DECIDE recording priority. The outputs summarise across multiple species within each group. The model’s prediction probability of occurrence for individual species is not made available. The outputs are in a raster format on Ordnance Survey National Grid reference system (OSGB) at 100m x 100m resolution. Species richness layers are a modelled prediction of how many species are present at a location. Model variability is used to determine where a model is uncertain about its prediction of species occurrence. Model variability is combined with information about how recently a species had been recorded to produce the DECIDE recording priority. The DECIDE recording priority is a measure to prioritise locations to support adaptive sampling of where to collect species occurrence data to improve species distribution models. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/445381ce-f412-48a0-bc3c-2d0ef4737274

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Source Metadata
XML, HTML
Date added
24 July 2026
Harvest GUID
445381ce-f412-48a0-bc3c-2d0ef4737274
Extent (Latitude)
60.861° to 49.864°
Extent (Longitude)
-8.648° to 1.768°
Dataset reference date (publication)
2023-07-07
Dataset reference date (creation)
2022-11-18
Access constraints
If you reuse this data, you should cite: Rolph, S., Mondain-Monval, T.O., August, T., Jarvis, S.G., Wright, E., Fox, R., Pocock, M.J.O. (2023). Species richness and recording priority derived from species distribution models for Lepidoptera in Great Britain. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/445381ce-f412-48a0-bc3c-2d0ef4737274
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(author, pointOfContact, publisher, owner, custodian)
ISO 19139 resource type
dataset
Metadata language
eng