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Bird and butterfly abundance from consistently surveyed agri-environmental monitoring transects at Hillesden, UK, 2006-2017
This dataset contains bird and butterfly abundance data from field-surveyed transects at Hillesden, UK (2006-2017). Over this time period, Hillesden hosted two five-year experimental manipulations of agri-environmental habitats, alongside monitoring of their impacts on biodiversity and agronomic indicators. This dataset contains data suitable for analysis of ten-year interannual population trends across both 5-year phases of experimental work at Hillesden, and subsequent comparison with equivalent trends derived from equivalent national recording schemes (Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) for birds, Wider Countryside Butterfly Monitoring Scheme (WCBMS) for butterflies). The data thus relate only to transects which were recorded consistently (nine for birds, seven for butterflies), and to species that were present on the majority of transects. This dataset thus represents a subset from the whole Hillesden biological survey dataset for these two groups, and contains maximum annual counts per transect, across monthly visits (April-August) within the permitted time frame from equivalent national recording schemes (BBS for birds, WCBMS for butterflies). Data were collected as part of a project led by the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, funded by Defra, with analytical work funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) under research programme NE/N018125/1 ASSIST. ASSIST is an initiative jointly supported by NERC and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC). Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/c8d0ac67-6d47-42b1-af29-2339be8a5d82
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- Date (Publication)
- 2022-06-22
- Citation identifier
- https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/c8d0ac67-6d47-42b1-af29-2339be8a5d82
- Citation identifier
- doi: / 10.5285/c8d0ac67-6d47-42b1-af29-2339be8a5d82
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Redhead, J.W., Botham, M., Bellamy, P.E., Broughton, R.K., Heard, M., Hinsley, S., Pywell, R.F. (2022). Bird and butterfly abundance from consistently surveyed agri-environmental monitoring transects at Hillesden, UK, 2006-2017. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/c8d0ac67-6d47-42b1-af29-2339be8a5d82
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Custodian NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Publisher UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Owner UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Redhead, J.
Point of contact UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Redhead, J.W. Author UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Botham, M. Author RSPB
Bellamy, P.E. Author UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Broughton, R.K. Author National Trust
Heard, M.
Author UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Hinsley, S. Author UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Pywell, R.F. Author
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Environmental Monitoring Facilities
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GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3
- Keywords
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- Biodiversity
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Hillesden
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Agri-environment
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population trends
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AES
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monitoring
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- Other restrictions
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- no limitations
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If you reuse this data, you should cite: Redhead, J.W., Botham, M., Bellamy, P.E., Broughton, R.K., Heard, M., Hinsley, S., Pywell, R.F. (2022). Bird and butterfly abundance from consistently surveyed agri-environmental monitoring transects at Hillesden, UK, 2006-2017. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/c8d0ac67-6d47-42b1-af29-2339be8a5d82
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- Text, table
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- 1 urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
- Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
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- Environment
- Begin date
- 2006-04-01
- End date
- 2017-09-01
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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/c8d0ac67-6d47-42b1-af29-2339be8a5d82 Download the data
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Protocol Linkage Name https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/c8d0ac67-6d47-42b1-af29-2339be8a5d82.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
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
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Birds were surveyed monthly in the breeding season (April-July) on ~1km transects. Butterfly surveys took place monthly May-August on a series of 2 x 50 m transects located within agri-environment schemes (AES) habitats, along with two-minute timed observations at either end of each transect. Bird and butterflies were identified, counted and recorded in the field by experienced surveyors, with locations mapped using unique transect ID (butterflies) or Ordnance Survey ∼1:2000 maps (birds). All data were then digitised by members of the survey team, allowing for error checking during and subsequent to data entry. For both groups, transects were filtered to identify those surveyed consistently across all experimental years (2006-2010 and 2012-2016 for birds, 2007-2010 and 2014-2017 for butterflies). Transects with no AES intervention and those which underwent changes in level of AES uptake were excluded. Species for analysis were selected on the basis of being present on the majority (>50%) of selected transects across all surveys. The data here pertain only to transects surveyed consistently over both phases of the experiment. Bird data were filtered to adults recorded within 10m of transects, excluding birds seen only in flight. Raw count data per visit were transformed to maximum counts of birds/butterflies per species per transect per year, in order to explore interannual trends and facilitate comparison with similar trends as calculated from national recording schemes.
Metadata
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- c8d0ac67-6d47-42b1-af29-2339be8a5d82 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- 8859 Part 1
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- Dataset
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dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-11-13T16:26:12
- 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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