4c058d1f-6166-4606-88a2-d2feaf036a2f 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 2025-11-13T16:20:54 UK GEMINI 2.3 WGS 84 Insect-Flower Networks 2016-11-03 publication 2009-08-01 creation https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/4c058d1f-6166-4606-88a2-d2feaf036a2f 10.5285/4c058d1f-6166-4606-88a2-d2feaf036a2f doi: Vanbergen, A.J. (2016). Insect-Flower Networks. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/4c058d1f-6166-4606-88a2-d2feaf036a2f The dataset contains information on the species identity and frequency of all insect-flower interactions recorded in ten birch (Betula spp.) woodland fragments surveyed in 2009 (May-August). The data were collected in two transects (50 x 2m; 15m apart and at least 50m from the woodland edge) randomly situated prior to the onset of flowering in the centre of each wood. Five of the woodland sites were disturbed by cattle grazing, while five were undisturbed. Landowners confirmed that livestock had been absent for at least 70-100 years in undisturbed sites. Where livestock were present, cattle grazing was light to moderate (e.g. 2007: mean = 8.4 cattle ha-1) and long term (mean = 33 years). The dataset comprises 13 columns, 2002 rows and is 218 KB. It gives the site name, geographic coordinates, whether it was disturbed by cattle grazing or not, the wind speed and temperature at time of sampling, the date of sampling, and the identity of the insect and plants interacting (binomial name or recognisable taxonomic unit). Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/4c058d1f-6166-4606-88a2-d2feaf036a2f Vanbergen, A.J. 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Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8320-5535 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 UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk owner NERC Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher notPlanned Environmental Monitoring Facilities theme GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication insect flower GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3 2019-01-28 creation Biodiversity Pollinators Environmental survey Ecosystem services Agriculture Land use 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: Vanbergen, A.J. (2016). Insect-Flower Networks. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/4c058d1f-6166-4606-88a2-d2feaf036a2f textTable 5 English utf8 biota 2009-05-20 2009-07-28 -2.991 -2.463 57.006 57.122 Comma-separated values (CSV) NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/4c058d1f-6166-4606-88a2-d2feaf036a2f.zip Supporting information Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset information https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/4c058d1f-6166-4606-88a2-d2feaf036a2f 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 From 20/5/2009 to 27/8/2009, the authors quantified insect visitation to flowering plants in 10 birch dominated woods either grazed or ungrazed by cattle. Insect specimens were collected along two standardised transects (50 x 2m; 15m apart) The species identity and frequency of all insect-flower interactions was recorded. Insect flower visitors were collected (netting/pooter/direct capture with vial) in situ and killed with ethyl acetate prior to transport to the laboratory at CEH. Once there specimens were identified under microscope and assigned to a binomial species (wherever possible) by CEH staff following standard keys or where binomial species identification proved impractical (taxonomically difficult groups or damaged specimens) they were assigned to a recognisable taxonomic unit (RTU). The identity and count of each insect specimen were entered directly into an Excel spreadsheet, data were checked for typographic errors by the lead investigator, and then data were aggregated to insect species by field site levels using 'pivot table' function in Excel to create a flat table. This dataset was then formatted to '.csv', metadata provided and archived in EIDC.