BGS Hosted Metadata
United Kingdom Butterfly Monitoring Scheme: phenology 2024
This dataset provides data on the timing of butterfly flight periods for each UK butterfly species across all monitored sites in the UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme (UKBMS). Annual data from over 2,500 sites are presented relating to the timing (first appearance, last appearance, date of peak abundance and mean flight date) and the duration (total number of days, standard deviation around the mean flight date) of the flight period for all UK butterfly species from 1976 to the year in the name of this dataset. Phenology change is a widely used measure of the biological impacts of climate change because of the close relationship between temperature and the timing of biological events. This dataset provides an invaluable tool for assessing the impacts of climate change both spatially and temporally. The UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme is organized and funded by Butterfly Conservation (BC), the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH), 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/b9d237fc-5a79-4449-bcee-34c52d87608f
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- Date (Publication)
- 2025-12-17
- Citation identifier
- https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/b9d237fc-5a79-4449-bcee-34c52d87608f
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- doi: / 10.5285/b9d237fc-5a79-4449-bcee-34c52d87608f
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Botham, M.S., Middlebrook, I., Heywood, J., Harrower, C.A., Milborrow, J., Roy, D.B. (2025). United Kingdom Butterfly Monitoring Scheme: phenology 2024. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/b9d237fc-5a79-4449-bcee-34c52d87608f
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Botham, M.S. Author Butterfly Conservation
Middlebrook, I. Author British Trust for Ornithology
Heywood, J.
Author UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Harrower, C.A. Author Butterfly Conservation
Milborrow, J.
Author UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Roy, D.B. Author UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
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Owner Butterfly Conservation
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Owner British Trust for Ornithology
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Owner Joint Nature Conservation Committee
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Owner UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Dr Marc Botham
Point of contact NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Custodian NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Publisher
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Environmental Monitoring Facilities
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- Keywords
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- Biodiversity
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annual
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butterflies
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Lepidoptera
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BReVI
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- no limitations
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Contains UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme (UKBMS) data © copyright and database right Butterfly Conservation, the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, British Trust for Ornithology, and the Joint Nature Conservation Committee.
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- Open Government Licence - UKBMS (this is the OGL with a UKBMS-specific attribution statement)
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These are the most up to date versions of the data and should be those used unless there is otherwise a reason to require older versions of the data
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If you reuse this data, you should cite: Botham, M.S., Middlebrook, I., Heywood, J., Harrower, C.A., Milborrow, J., Roy, D.B. (2025). United Kingdom Butterfly Monitoring Scheme: phenology 2024. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/b9d237fc-5a79-4449-bcee-34c52d87608f
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- Text, table
- Language
- English
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- UTF8
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- Biota
- Environment
- Begin date
- 2024-01-01
- End date
- 2024-12-31
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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/data/b9d237fc-5a79-4449-bcee-34c52d87608f Download the data
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Protocol Linkage Name https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/b9d237fc-5a79-4449-bcee-34c52d87608f.zip Supporting information
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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
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- 2010-12-08
- Statement
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Phenology data include measurements of the timing and duration of flight periods for each butterfly species at each site in each year it was recorded there. Data on timing include the first day and last day on which a given species was recorded at each site in each year, the day on which the greatest (peak) count of each species was recorded for each site in each year, and the mean flight date (a weighted mean day number) for each species at each site in each year. Data on the duration of flight periods include the standard deviation around the mean flight date and the number of days (range) between the first and last days on which a species was recorded on a given site in each year it was recorded there.
Metadata
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- b9d237fc-5a79-4449-bcee-34c52d87608f XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- 8859 Part 1
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- Dataset
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dataset
- Date stamp
- 2026-01-09T10:10:48
- 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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