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Tritrophic phenology and associated data from 44 sites in Scotland, 2014-2021

Publisher
Environmental Information Data Centre
Updated
30 July 2026
Topic
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Licence
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Summary

This dataset contains data on temperature and tritrophic phenology collected across 44 sites in Scotland for the period 2014 – 2021. Each site was visited every two days through the spring. The phenology of first budburst and leaf out of approx. 700 marked trees was recorded. Every four days marked branches were beaten and data was collected on the number of caterpillars (and spiders and beetles). Data on the breeding phenology (first egg date, hatch date) and breeding success of blue tits was recorded at 4-8 nestboxes per site. This work was supported by Natural Environment Research Council grant NE/P011802/1. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/b63d53ae-2fe7-4ce9-82a2-2325098489e3

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Source Metadata
XML, HTML
Date added
25 July 2026
Harvest GUID
b63d53ae-2fe7-4ce9-82a2-2325098489e3
Extent (Latitude)
57.89° to 55.97°
Extent (Longitude)
-4.45° to -3.36°
Dataset reference date (publication)
2022-06-22
Access constraints
If you reuse this data, you should cite: Phillimore, A.B., Macphie, K.M., Samplonius, J.M., Shutt, J.D., Hadfield, J.D. (2022). Tritrophic phenology and associated data from 44 sites in Scotland, 2014-2021. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/b63d53ae-2fe7-4ce9-82a2-2325098489e3
Responsible party
University of Edinburgh (author, pointOfContact); (publisher, owner, custodian)
ISO 19139 resource type
dataset
Metadata language
eng