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The Pantheon database: habitat related traits, conservation status and taxa associations for invertebrates in England
The Pantheon database contains habitat-related traits, feeding guilds, conservation status (including rarity and threat status), legal protection data and associations with other taxa for just over 11,700 invertebrates. The database has been developed for invertebrates within England so the data should be used with caution when applying it to invertebrates of other countries. The data have been extracted from numerous sources within the published literature and compiled and categorised by entomological experts over a number of years. The database also includes (and supersedes) species assemblage types (SATs) from the Invertebrate Species-habitat Information System (ISIS). Species names have been linked with the Taxon Version Key (TVK; unique identifier) from the UK Species Inventory, held by the Natural History Museum, where possible. Overall the database holds 154,072 records. The database was developed by Natural England and the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology as part of a development of online analytical tools to benefit invertebrate conservation and site assessments. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/2a353d2d-c1b9-4bf7-8702-9e78910844bc
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- Date (Publication)
- 2017-05-05
- Date (Creation)
- 2017-03-31
- Citation identifier
- https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/2a353d2d-c1b9-4bf7-8702-9e78910844bc
- Citation identifier
- doi: / 10.5285/2a353d2d-c1b9-4bf7-8702-9e78910844bc
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Webb, J., Heaver, D., Lott, D., Dean, H.J., van Breda, J., Curson, J., Harvey, M.C., Gurney, M., Roy, D.B., van Breda, A., Drake, M., Alexander, K.N.A., Foster, G. (2017). The Pantheon database: habitat related traits, conservation status and taxa associations for invertebrates in England. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/2a353d2d-c1b9-4bf7-8702-9e78910844bc
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Natural England Webb, J.
Point of contact UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Dean, H.
Point of contact Natural England Webb, J.
Author Natural England Heaver, D.
Author Natural England Lott, D.
Author Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Dean, H.J. Author Biodiverse IT
van Breda, J.
Author Natural England Curson, J.
Author Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Harvey, M.C.
Author RSPB Gurney, M.
Author Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Roy, D.B. Author AVB-IT
van Breda, A.
Author Unaffiliated
Drake, M.
Author Unaffiliated
Alexander, K.N.A.
Author Unaffiliated
Foster, G.
Author NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Custodian NERC Environmental Information Data Centre Publisher
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Habitats and Biotopes
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GeoNames
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NEC05413
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Pantheon
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invertebrates
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habitats
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biotopes
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resources
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feeding guilds
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conservation status
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rarity
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threat
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species associations
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habitat fidelity
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- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- no limitations
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© Natural England, UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
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If you reuse this data, you should cite: Webb, J., Heaver, D., Lott, D., Dean, H.J., van Breda, J., Curson, J., Harvey, M.C., Gurney, M., Roy, D.B., van Breda, A., Drake, M., Alexander, K.N.A., Foster, G. (2017). The Pantheon database: habitat related traits, conservation status and taxa associations for invertebrates in England. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/2a353d2d-c1b9-4bf7-8702-9e78910844bc
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- Text, table
- Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Biota
- Begin date
- 2007-03-31
- End date
- 2017-03-31
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- Unique resource identifier
- OSGB 1936 / British National Grid
- Distribution format
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Name Version Comma-separated values (CSV)
- Distributor contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
Distributor
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/2a353d2d-c1b9-4bf7-8702-9e78910844bc.zip Supporting information
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Protocol Linkage Name https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/2a353d2d-c1b9-4bf7-8702-9e78910844bc Download the data
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- Dataset
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dataset
Conformance result
- Title
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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
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Data were extracted from the published literature, including journal papers, books and websites. Whilst some of these sources may not have been peer reviewed they have been available for public scrutiny. The extracted data was compiled and categorised by expert entomologists, and second opinions sought where there was uncertainty in the categorisation. The trait names and hierarchy design were peer reviewed by a range of invertebrate experts. During the review, they were also able to comment on and amend species traits allocations if they considered them incorrect. Any changes were approved by the Pantheon project and steering group before implementation.
Metadata
- File identifier
- 2a353d2d-c1b9-4bf7-8702-9e78910844bc XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- 8859 Part 1
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
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dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-11-13T16:18:12
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
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2.3
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Point of contact
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