bb13cc09-5d6c-4f6a-bda8-de1915fa3cc0 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 2025-11-13T16:21:26 UK GEMINI 2.3 WGS 84 Reproductive life-history data of blue and great tits from nestbox monitoring, Glasgow, UK, 2014-2022 2024-08-06 publication https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/bb13cc09-5d6c-4f6a-bda8-de1915fa3cc0 10.5285/bb13cc09-5d6c-4f6a-bda8-de1915fa3cc0 doi: Dominoni, D.M., Capilla-Lasheras, P., Branston, C.J. (2024). Reproductive life-history data of blue and great tits from nestbox monitoring, Glasgow, UK, 2014-2022. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/bb13cc09-5d6c-4f6a-bda8-de1915fa3cc0 This dataset contains information on reproductive events of blue and great tits recorded by manually inspecting approximately 300 to 500 nestboxes annually along a 35 km urban gradient in and around Glasgow, Scotland from 2014 to 2022. The datasets contain annually aggregated values per nestbox on clutch initiation, clutch size, number of hatchlings and fledglings. Data were collected to investigate the effects of urbanisation on daily activity patterns, reproductive traits and population dynamics of passerine birds. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/bb13cc09-5d6c-4f6a-bda8-de1915fa3cc0 Dominoni, D.M. University of Glasgow Davide.dominoni@glasgow.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2063-9955 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 pointOfContact Dominoni, D.M. University of Glasgow Davide.dominoni@glasgow.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2063-9955 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 Capilla-Lasheras, P. University of Glasgow pablo.capillalasheras@glasgow.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6091-7089 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 Branston, C.J. University of Glasgow claire.branston@glasgow.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4416-0984 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 University of Glasgow Davide.dominoni@glasgow.ac.uk owner NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher Land Use Environmental Monitoring Facilities theme GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication urbanisation productivity GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3 2019-01-28 creation nestbox blue tit great tit reproductive success otherRestrictions no limitations otherRestrictions This resource is available under the terms of the Open Government Licence otherRestrictions If you reuse this data, you should cite: Dominoni, D.M., Capilla-Lasheras, P., Branston, C.J. (2024). Reproductive life-history data of blue and great tits from nestbox monitoring, Glasgow, UK, 2014-2022. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/bb13cc09-5d6c-4f6a-bda8-de1915fa3cc0 textTable English utf8 biota environment 2014-04-01 2022-06-20 -4.609 -4.251 55.861 56.125 Comma-separated values (CSV) NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/bb13cc09-5d6c-4f6a-bda8-de1915fa3cc0 Download the data Download a copy of this data download https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/bb13cc09-5d6c-4f6a-bda8-de1915fa3cc0.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 We monitored an approximately 35 kilometre urban-non-urban gradient, with the extremes of the gradient being Glasgow city centre and Loch Lomond National Park, Scotland. This gradient has been monitored annually between 2014 and 2022 and has consisted of between five and twenty sites, depending on the year. Nestboxes were installed at all sites, approximately 50 metres from each other, with the number of nestboxes per site ranging from 5 to 161 dependent on the size of the site and the year of monitoring. During the breeding season (April – June) the nestboxes were monitored weekly through the nest-building and incubation stages. For each nestbox occupied by blue tits and great tits the first egg laying date was either directly observed in the field, or back calculated if the nest was found during egg laying but before incubation commenced, assuming one egg was laid per day. Clutch size was recorded as the maximum number of eggs observed during incubation. Fourteen days after incubation commenced nestboxes were checked every other day until chicks were observed. Thirteen days after hatching, chicks were marked with a unique metal ring. Nests were not checked again until at least 20 days after hatching to prevent premature fledging. At this final check, any dead chicks remaining in the nestbox were recorded and subtracted from the total number of chicks recorded alive 13 days after hatching to give the number of chicks that successfully fledged. At the end of every year data collected during that year was checked and uploaded on a central Access database. This database enables linking between datasets on reproductive attempts and individual bird information (mark-recapture data), both of which are deposited with the EIDC.