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Reproductive life-history data of blue and great tits from nestbox monitoring, Glasgow, UK, 2014-2022
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
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- Date (Publication)
- 2024-08-06
- Citation identifier
- https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/bb13cc09-5d6c-4f6a-bda8-de1915fa3cc0
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- doi: / 10.5285/bb13cc09-5d6c-4f6a-bda8-de1915fa3cc0
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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
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role University of Glasgow Dominoni, D.M. Point of contact University of Glasgow Dominoni, D.M. Author University of Glasgow Capilla-Lasheras, P. Author University of Glasgow Branston, C.J. Author University of Glasgow Owner NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Custodian NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Publisher
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Land Use
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Environmental Monitoring Facilities
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GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3
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nestbox
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blue tit
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great tit
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reproductive success
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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
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- Text, table
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- English
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- UTF8
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- Biota
- Environment
- Begin date
- 2014-04-01
- End date
- 2022-06-20
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- WGS 84
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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/bb13cc09-5d6c-4f6a-bda8-de1915fa3cc0 Download the data
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Protocol Linkage Name https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/bb13cc09-5d6c-4f6a-bda8-de1915fa3cc0.zip Supporting information
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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
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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.
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- bb13cc09-5d6c-4f6a-bda8-de1915fa3cc0 XML
- Metadata language
- English
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- 8859 Part 1
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dataset
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- 2025-11-13T16:21:26
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- 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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