4c02ae08-5703-46f4-947e-80e5d0a34a28 English ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1) dataset dataset NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg Lancaster LA1 4AP UK info@eidc.ac.uk https://eidc.ac.uk/ EIDC website The Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC) is the UK's national data centre for terrestrial and freshwater sciences. information pointOfContact 2025-11-13T16:18:00 UK GEMINI 2.3 OSGB 1936 / British National Grid Experimental data on herbivorous pest insects, predatory insect occurrence and population growth rates of artificially established aphids from three crops 2018-01-19 publication 2018-01-11 creation https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/4c02ae08-5703-46f4-947e-80e5d0a34a28 10.5285/4c02ae08-5703-46f4-947e-80e5d0a34a28 doi: Woodcock, B.A., Bullock, J.M., Pywell, R.F. (2018). Experimental data on herbivorous pest insects, predatory insect occurrence and population growth rates of artificially established aphids from three crops. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/4c02ae08-5703-46f4-947e-80e5d0a34a28 This dataset contains percentage cover of plants, mean numbers of aphids, mean counts of predators and mean counts of herbivores on three crops (field bean, wheat and oilseed rape) within different grassland types (improved, restored and species rich). Data were collected in 2013 on five farms in the Salisbury Plain area of the UK as part of the Wessex Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Sustainability (BESS) project within the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) BESS programme. This data set was used to provide an assessment of the potential for different grassland types to provide natural pest control ecosystem services. The study uses sentinel plants of the three crops established in the grasslands to monitor herbivorous pest insects, predatory insect occurrence and the population growth rates of artificially established aphids. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/4c02ae08-5703-46f4-947e-80e5d0a34a28 Woodcock, B. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk pointOfContact Woodcock, B.A. Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0300-9951 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Bullock, J.M. Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0529-4020 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Pywell, R.F. Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6431-9959 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian NERC Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk owner notPlanned Environmental Monitoring Facilities theme GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication Brassica napus Wikidata 2012-10-29 creation spider beetle GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3 2019-01-28 creation Biodiversity Wessex BESS field bean wheat oilseed rape aphid Coccinellidae predatory beetles otherRestrictions no limitations otherRestrictions This resource is made available under the terms of the Open Government Licence otherRestrictions © UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology otherRestrictions If you reuse this data, you should cite: Woodcock, B.A., Bullock, J.M., Pywell, R.F. (2018). Experimental data on herbivorous pest insects, predatory insect occurrence and population growth rates of artificially established aphids from three crops. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/4c02ae08-5703-46f4-947e-80e5d0a34a28 textTable English utf8 biota farming 2013-06-11 2013-06-16 -1.984 -1.793 51.197 51.298 Comma-separated values (CSV) NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/4c02ae08-5703-46f4-947e-80e5d0a34a28.zip Supporting information Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset information https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/4c02ae08-5703-46f4-947e-80e5d0a34a28 Download the data Download a copy of this data download dataset dataset 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 2010-12-08 Data has been checked for anomalous values following its entry from hand written sheets to electronic spreadsheet. Invertebrate identification was verified by comparison to museum held material at the Oxford University Museums of Natural History.