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United Kingdom Butterfly Monitoring Scheme: species trends 2016
This dataset provides linear trends, over varying time periods, for the UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme (UKBMS) Collated Indices of individual butterfly species across the UK. The main statistical values derived from a linear regression (slope, standard error, P-value) are presented for the entire time series for each species (1976 to 2016), for the last 20 years, and for the last decade. In addition a trend class, based on slope direction and its significance, and a percentage change for that time period are provided to describe the statistical trends. These trend data are provided for 59 UK butterfly species. Trends across different time series allow us to determine the long and short-term trends for individual species. This enables us to focus conservation and research and also to assess species responses to conservation already in place. The Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH) and Butterfly Conservation (BC) are responsible for the calculation and interpretation of the trend datasets. The collection of the underlying UKBMS data is reliant on a large volunteer community. The UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme is funded by a consortium of organisations led by the Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC). Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/5c5bbee4-fe39-40b2-a58b-16e05f994a74
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- Date (Publication)
- 2017-12-04
- Date (Creation)
- 2016-12-31
- Citation identifier
- https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/5c5bbee4-fe39-40b2-a58b-16e05f994a74
- Citation identifier
- doi: / 10.5285/5c5bbee4-fe39-40b2-a58b-16e05f994a74
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Botham, M., Roy, D., Brereton, T., Middlebrook, I., Randle, Z. (2017). United Kingdom Butterfly Monitoring Scheme: species trends 2016. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/5c5bbee4-fe39-40b2-a58b-16e05f994a74
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology UKBMS
Point of contact Butterfly Conservation Point of contact NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Custodian NERC Environmental Information Data Centre Publisher Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Botham, M. Author Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Roy, D. Author Butterfly Conservation Brereton, T.
Author Butterfly Conservation Middlebrook, I.
Author Butterfly Conservation Randle, Z.
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- Not planned
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Species Distribution
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- Registration is required to access this data
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If you reuse this data, you should cite: Botham, M., Roy, D., Brereton, T., Middlebrook, I., Randle, Z. (2017). United Kingdom Butterfly Monitoring Scheme: species trends 2016. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/5c5bbee4-fe39-40b2-a58b-16e05f994a74
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- Text, table
- Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
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- Biota
- Begin date
- 1976-04-01
- End date
- 2016-09-01
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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
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Protocol Linkage Name https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/5c5bbee4-fe39-40b2-a58b-16e05f994a74.zip Supporting information
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Protocol Linkage Name https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/5c5bbee4-fe39-40b2-a58b-16e05f994a74 Download the data
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dataset
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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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Trends are calculated by performing a linear regression on the annual Collated Indices for each species. Collated indices are calculated from UKBMS data using a log-linear model incorporating individual site indices from all monitored sites across the UK for a given species in a given year. They give a statistical measure of how the abundance of each species has changed on monitored sites since 1976, over the last 20 years, and over the last decade. Because the Collated indices are only calculated for each species in years in which it was recorded on five or more sites, the starting year for the series is later than 1976 for a number of rarer species.
Metadata
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- 5c5bbee4-fe39-40b2-a58b-16e05f994a74 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- 8859 Part 1
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- Dataset
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dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-04-09T08:43:52
- 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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