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United Kingdom Butterfly Monitoring Scheme: species trends 2014

[THIS DATASET HAS BEEN WITHDRAWN]. This dataset provides linear trends, over varying time periods, for the UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme (UKBMS) Collated Indices of individual butterfly species across the UK. The main statistical values derived from a linear regression (slope, standard error, P-value) are presented for the entire time series for each species (1976 to 2014), for the last 20 years, and for the last decade. In addition a trend class, based on slope direction and its significance, and a percentage change for that time period are provided to describe the statistical trends. These trend data are provided for 59 UK butterfly species. Trends across different time series allow us to determine the long and short-term trends for individual species. This enables us to focus conservation and research and also to assess species responses to conservation already in place. The Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH) and Butterfly Conservation (BC) are responsible for the calculation and interpretation of this trend datasets. The collection of the underlying UKBMS data is reliant on a large volunteer community. The UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme is funded by a consortium of organisations led by the Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC). Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/279fb877-20e5-42cb-8db1-481079880caa

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Date (Publication)
2015-09-10
Citation identifier
CEH:EIDC: / 1441792989721
Citation identifier
https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/279fb877-20e5-42cb-8db1-481079880caa
Citation identifier
doi: / 10.5285/279fb877-20e5-42cb-8db1-481079880caa
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Botham, M., Roy, D., Brereton, T., Middlebrook, I., Randle, Z. (2015). United Kingdom Butterfly Monitoring Scheme: species trends 2014. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/279fb877-20e5-42cb-8db1-481079880caa

Point of contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

Point of contact
Butterfly Conservation

info@butterfly-conservation.org

Point of contact

UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme

ukbms@ceh.ac.uk

Resource provider
NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre

info@eidc.ac.uk

Custodian
Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Botham, M.

enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

Author
Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Roy, D.

enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

Author
Butterfly Conservation

Brereton, T.

info@butterfly-conservation.org

Author
Butterfly Conservation

Middlebrook, I.

info@butterfly-conservation.org

Author
Butterfly Conservation

Randle, Z.

info@butterfly-conservation.org

Author
NERC Environmental Information Data Centre

info@eidc.ac.uk

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Maintenance and update frequency
Annually
Maintenance note

Main updates occur annually at the end of the year following data collection and collation at Butterfly Conservation.

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Species Distribution

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If you reuse this data, you should cite: Botham, M., Roy, D., Brereton, T., Middlebrook, I., Randle, Z. (2015). United Kingdom Butterfly Monitoring Scheme: species trends 2014. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/279fb877-20e5-42cb-8db1-481079880caa

Spatial representation type
Text, table
Language
English
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Biota
Begin date
1976-04-01
End date
2014-09-01
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Unique resource identifier
OSGB 1936 / British National Grid
Distribution format
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Comma-separated values (CSV)

Distributor contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre

ukbms@ceh.ac.uk

Distributor
OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/279fb877-20e5-42cb-8db1-481079880caa.zip

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Other

dataset

Conformance result

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

Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Statement

Trends are calculated by performing a linear regression on the annual Collated Indices for each species. Collated indices are calculated from UKBMS data using a log-linear model incorporating individual site indices from all monitored sites across the UK for a given species in a given year. They give a statistical measure of how the abundance of each species has changed on monitored sites since 1976, over the last 20 years, and over the last decade. Because the Collated indices are only calculated for each species in years in which it was recorded on five or more sites, the starting year for the series is later than 1976 for a number of rarer species.

Metadata

File identifier
279fb877-20e5-42cb-8db1-481079880caa XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
8859 Part 1
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Dataset
Hierarchy level name

dataset

Date stamp
2025-03-21T09:40:15
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version

2.3

Metadata author
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role
NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre

info@eidc.ac.uk

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Species Distribution


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