8a41e1c8-3018-44f1-8d0a-c1b1ad957fc9 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 2026-01-09T10:10:48 UK GEMINI 2.3 OSGB 1936 / British National Grid OSNI 1952 / Irish National Grid United Kingdom Butterfly Monitoring Scheme: site location data 2019 2020-07-17 publication https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/8a41e1c8-3018-44f1-8d0a-c1b1ad957fc9 10.5285/8a41e1c8-3018-44f1-8d0a-c1b1ad957fc9 doi: Botham, M., Brereton, T., Harris, S., Harrower, C., Middlebrook, I., Randle, Z., Roy, D.B. (2020). United Kingdom Butterfly Monitoring Scheme: site location data 2019. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/8a41e1c8-3018-44f1-8d0a-c1b1ad957fc9 This dataset provides the details of all sites on which butterflies have been monitored as part of the UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme (UKBMS). This includes all standard UKBMS transect sites, Wider Countryside Butterfly Survey (WCBS) sites and targeted species survey sites (timed counts, single-species transects, larval web and egg counts). Data includes the location within the UK, the length and number of sections for the butterfly transect on each site and the number of years each transect has been monitored. The location of some sites are sensitive and are excluded from this dataset. A full set of UKBMS monitoring sites is available in a separate dataset requested via the UKBMS website. The UKBMS started in 1976 with fewer than 50 sites. Since then the number of sites monitored each year has increased to several thousand. There are year new sites each and a small number where the transect is no longer surveyed. Details of this are provided in the site dataset in the form of the first and last year in which each site was surveyed. The majority of site data is provided by recorders at the time a transect is created. Site data are crucial in order to determine where extra recording effort is required and to investigate where butterfly populations are changing most and thus where conservation should be targeted, including across different habitat types. The UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme is organized and funded by Butterfly Conservation (BC), the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH), the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO), and the Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC). The UKBMS is indebted to all volunteers who contribute data to the scheme. This work was supported by the Natural Environment Research Council award number NE/R016429/1 as part of the UK-SCAPE programme delivering National Capability. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/8a41e1c8-3018-44f1-8d0a-c1b1ad957fc9 Botham, M. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5276-1405 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 Brereton, T. Butterfly Conservation tbrereton@butterfly-conservation.org author Harris, S. British Trust for Ornithology sarah.harris@bto.org author Harrower, C. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5070-5293 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 Middlebrook, I. Butterfly Conservation imiddlebrook@butterfly-conservation.org https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0448-9144 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 Randle, Z. Butterfly Conservation zrandle@butterfly-conservation.org author Roy, D.B. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5147-0331 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 Botham, M. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk pointOfContact Brereton, T. Butterfly Conservation info@butterfly-conservation.org pointOfContact Environmental Monitoring Facilities theme GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication lepidopteran butterfly GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3 2019-01-28 creation Biodiversity UK-SCAPE Wales United Kingdom Scotland England Northern Ireland otherRestrictions no limitations otherRestrictions This resource is available under the terms of the Open Government Licence otherRestrictions © UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology otherRestrictions © Butterfly Conservation otherRestrictions © British Trust for Ornithology otherRestrictions © Natural Environment Research Council otherRestrictions © Joint Nature Conservation Committee otherRestrictions Contains UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme (UKBMS) data © copyright and database right Butterfly Conservation, the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, British Trust for Ornithology, and the Joint Nature Conservation Committee. otherRestrictions If you reuse this data, you should cite: Botham, M., Brereton, T., Harris, S., Harrower, C., Middlebrook, I., Randle, Z., Roy, D.B. (2020). United Kingdom Butterfly Monitoring Scheme: site location data 2019. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/8a41e1c8-3018-44f1-8d0a-c1b1ad957fc9 textTable 100 English utf8 biota 1973-04-01 2019-09-30 -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/sd/8a41e1c8-3018-44f1-8d0a-c1b1ad957fc9.zip Supporting information Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset information https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/8a41e1c8-3018-44f1-8d0a-c1b1ad957fc9 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 Site location data provide details about the linear transect at each UKBMS site. Data on the location and length and width of each transect are provided by the recorder for each site. Data on how long each transect has been monitored is calculated as the time period between when a transect was first and last monitored.