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First egg dates for great tits (Parus major) and blue tits (Cyanistes caeruleus) breeding in three deciduous woods in Cambridgeshire, England in 1993 to 2016
This dataset contains first egg dates for great tits (Parus major) and blue tits (Cyanistes caeruleus) from Monks Wood, Brampton Wood and Wennington Wood in Cambridgeshire, England, over a 23 year period. The dataset runs from the breeding season in 1993 to the end of the breeding season in 2015. The first egg dates are presented as the number of days from the start date which was set as the 1st April each year. Because the timing of breeding of great tits and blue tits is influenced in large part by ambient temperature and the phenology of their main prey, the data were collected as a measure of spring phenology. These data comprise part of a larger long-term study of the influence of habitat (extent, structure and composition) and landscape factors on abundance, distribution and breeding success of woodland birds in English lowland deciduous woodland. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/2efa9bf4-e5c0-42f9-8fcb-90dca2bb9c66
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- Date (Publication)
- 2016-04-07
- Date (Creation)
- 2015-12-31
- Citation identifier
- https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/2efa9bf4-e5c0-42f9-8fcb-90dca2bb9c66
- Citation identifier
- doi: / 10.5285/2efa9bf4-e5c0-42f9-8fcb-90dca2bb9c66
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Hinsley, S.A., Bellamy, P.E. (2016). First egg dates for great tits (Parus major) and blue tits (Cyanistes caeruleus) breeding in three deciduous woods in Cambridgeshire, England in 1993 to 2016. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/2efa9bf4-e5c0-42f9-8fcb-90dca2bb9c66
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Hinsley, S.
Point of contact NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Custodian NERC Environmental Information Data Centre Publisher Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Hinsley, S.A.
Author RSPB Bellamy, P.E.
Author UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Owner
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
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Dataset is complete
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Environmental Monitoring Facilities
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- no limitations
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© UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
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If you reuse this data, you should cite: Hinsley, S.A., Bellamy, P.E. (2016). First egg dates for great tits (Parus major) and blue tits (Cyanistes caeruleus) breeding in three deciduous woods in Cambridgeshire, England in 1993 to 2016. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/2efa9bf4-e5c0-42f9-8fcb-90dca2bb9c66
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- Text, table
- Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
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- Biota
- Begin date
- 1993-01-01
- End date
- 2015-12-31
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- Unique resource identifier
- OSGB 1936 / British National Grid
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Name Version Comma-separated values (CSV)
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
Distributor
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Protocol Linkage Name https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/2efa9bf4-e5c0-42f9-8fcb-90dca2bb9c66.zip Supporting information
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Protocol Linkage Name https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/2efa9bf4-e5c0-42f9-8fcb-90dca2bb9c66 Download the data
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Conformance result
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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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Field data collected by trained and experienced personnel. Egg dates have been checked against original paper records. Numbers of lines of data have been checked and data values have been checked for outliers. Individual egg date values have been checked against mean values per year for each site.
Metadata
- File identifier
- 2efa9bf4-e5c0-42f9-8fcb-90dca2bb9c66 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- 8859 Part 1
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- Dataset
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dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-03-21T13:22:51
- 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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