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Estimated species richness data used in study of UK Ecological status
Estimated species richness data for valuation of biodiversity across the UK, based on species occurrence records for 11 taxonomic groups (Bees, Birds, Bryophytes, Butterflies, Carabidae, Hoverflies, Isopoda, Ladybirds, Moths, Orthoptera and Vascular plants). UK species occurrence data were collated from the Biological Records Centre (BRC) and the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO). Estimated species richness was calculated across all taxonomic groups for two time periods: 1970-1990 and 2000-2013. The dataset was used to create the "UK ecological status map version 2". Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/6c535793-034d-4c4f-8a00-497315e7d689
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- Date (Publication)
- 2016-08-31
- Date (Creation)
- 2016-08-12
- Citation identifier
- https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/6c535793-034d-4c4f-8a00-497315e7d689
- Citation identifier
- doi: / 10.5285/6c535793-034d-4c4f-8a00-497315e7d689
- Other citation details
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Dyer, R., Oliver, T. (2016). Estimated species richness data used in study of UK Ecological status. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/6c535793-034d-4c4f-8a00-497315e7d689
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Custodian NERC Environmental Information Data Centre Publisher UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Point of contact Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Dyer, R.
Author University of Reading Oliver, T. Author UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Owner
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- Not planned
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Habitats and Biotopes
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GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3
- Keywords
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- Biodiversity
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Carabidae
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Hoverflies
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Isopoda
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Ladybirds
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Moths
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Vascular plants
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- Other restrictions
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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: Dyer, R., Oliver, T. (2016). Estimated species richness data used in study of UK Ecological status. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/6c535793-034d-4c4f-8a00-497315e7d689
- Spatial representation type
- Text, table
- Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
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- Biota
- Begin date
- 1970-01-01
- End date
- 2013-12-31
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- Unique resource identifier
- OSGB 1936 / British National Grid
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Name Version Comma-separated values (CSV)
- Distributor contact
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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/data/6c535793-034d-4c4f-8a00-497315e7d689 Download the data
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Protocol Linkage Name https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/6c535793-034d-4c4f-8a00-497315e7d689.zip Supporting information
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- Dataset
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dataset
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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UK species occurrence data were collated from the Biological Records Centre (BRC). Data were gathered for 11 taxonomic groups (Columns 2 to 12; Bees, Birds, Bryophytes, Butterflies, Carabidae, Hoverflies, Isopoda, Ladybirds, Moths, Grasshopper and Crickets, and Vascular plants) at the 10km2 scale (hectad; column 1) over two separate time periods: 1970 to 1990 and 2000 to 2013 (i.e. there are two separate datasets, one for each time period). 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. 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 calculated the estimated species richness by applying a recently developed method (Frescalo) to account for the variation in recorder effort within different hectads. The Frescalo program estimates species richness at a given location according to the set of species occurring in a neighbourhood of the 100 most similar hectads from the 200 nearest hectads. The proportion of a suite of common benchmark species from this neighbourhood list that have been recorded in the focal hectad is used to assess the recording intensity of this focal hectad, and this is used to scale the 'raw' observed species richness towards the neighbourhood maximum accordingly. We ran Frescalo using the Sparta package in the program R. Neighbourhoods were defined according to biological similarity using either vascular plant data or land cover type: all datasets were analysed using the vascular plant weights files embedded within the Frescalo program, with the exception of the vascular plants dataset which for which biological similarity between hectads was defined using land cover type in order to avoid circularity. For this we used the 2007 ITE Land Cover Map.
Metadata
- File identifier
- 6c535793-034d-4c4f-8a00-497315e7d689 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- 8859 Part 1
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- Dataset
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dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-11-13T16:23:00
- 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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