58b248a8-6e34-4ffb-ae32-3744566399a2 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 2025-11-13T16:23:16 UK GEMINI 2.3 OSGB 1936 / British National Grid UK ecological status map version 2 2016-05-23 publication 2016-05-20 creation https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/58b248a8-6e34-4ffb-ae32-3744566399a2 10.5285/58b248a8-6e34-4ffb-ae32-3744566399a2 doi: Dyer, R., Oliver, T. (2016). UK ecological status map version 2. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/58b248a8-6e34-4ffb-ae32-3744566399a2 A spatial indicator of ecological status for valuation of biodiversity across the UK, based on species occurrence records for eleven taxonomic groups (Bees, Birds, Bryophytes, Butterflies, Carabidae, Hoverflies, Isopoda, Ladybirds, Moths, Orthoptera and Vascular plants) was developed. UK species occurrence data were collated from the Biological Records Centre (BRC). The mean ecological status was calculated across all taxonomic groups for the 2000 to 2013 time period, relative to the species richness maximums from the 1970-1990 time period. This version supersedes the dataset "UK ecological status map". Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/58b248a8-6e34-4ffb-ae32-3744566399a2 Oliver, T. 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Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4169-7313 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 UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk owner notPlanned Habitats and Biotopes theme GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication orthopteran lepidopteran butterfly bryophyte bird bee soil bacterium GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3 2019-01-28 creation Biodiversity eukaryote Moths Carabidae Hoverflies Isopoda Isopods Ladybirds Vascular plants 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: Dyer, R., Oliver, T. (2016). UK ecological status map version 2. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/58b248a8-6e34-4ffb-ae32-3744566399a2 textTable 10000 English utf8 biota environment 1970-01-01 2013-12-31 -8.648 1.768 49.864 60.861 Comma-separated values (CSV) NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/58b248a8-6e34-4ffb-ae32-3744566399a2 Download the data Download a copy of this data download https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/58b248a8-6e34-4ffb-ae32-3744566399a2.zip Supporting information Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset information 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 UK species occurrence data were collated from the Biological Records Centre (BRC). Data were gathered for 11 taxonomic groups (Bees, Birds, Bryophytes, Butterflies, Carabidae, Hoverflies, Isopoda, Ladybirds, Moths, Orthoptera and Vascular plants) at the 10km2 scale (hectad) over two separate time periods: 1970 to 1990 and 2000 to 2013. Bird species occurrence data for the breeding birds of the UK were acquired from the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO). We used data corresponding to the two time periods defined above, taken from the bird atlases of 1976 and 2001-2011 respectively. Estimating species richness and measuring ecological status: Separate analyses were undertaken for both time periods within each taxonomic group. For each hectad we compiled a species list and calculated species richness. We then applied a recently developed method (FRESCALO; Hill 2012) to account for the variation in recorder effort within different hectads. The ecological status of each hectad was calculated using a relative measure of estimated species richness. Each hectad was assigned to an environmental zone, determined by land cover type, climate, geology and topography. We assigned zones using the 2007 ITE land classification (Bunce et al. 2007), according to the dominant ITE land class (45 classes in total) present in individual hectads. A reference list of potential species was then compiled for each environmental zone, and the estimated species richness for any given hectad was compared as a proportion to the list of species that could potentially be there. The mean ecological status was calculated across all taxonomic groups for the 2000 to 2013 time period, relative to the species richness maximums from the 1970-1990 time period.