BGS Hosted Metadata
Traits data for the butterflies and macro-moths of Great Britain and Ireland, 2024
Here, we present a comprehensive traits database for the butterflies and macro-moths of Great Britain and Ireland. The database covers 968 species in 21 families. Ecological traits fall into four main categories: life cycle ecology and phenology, host plant specificity and characteristics, breeding habitat, and morphological characteristics. The database also contains data regarding species distribution, conservation status, and temporal trends for abundance and occupancy. This database can be used for a wide array of purposes including further fundamental research on species and community responses to environmental change, conservation and management studies, and evolutionary biology. This is the updated version of the dataset, incorporating additions and corrections compared to previous versions ( https://doi.org/10.5285/5b5a13b6-2304-47e3-9c9d-35237d1232c6 & https://doi.org/10.5285/33a66d6a-dd9b-4a19-9026-cf1ffb969cdb) Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/dbc7cc17-cbbd-49dd-bab4-8e8855768d66
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- Date (Publication)
- 2025-08-12
- Citation identifier
- https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/dbc7cc17-cbbd-49dd-bab4-8e8855768d66
- Citation identifier
- doi: / 10.5285/dbc7cc17-cbbd-49dd-bab4-8e8855768d66
- Other citation details
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Cook, P.M., Tordoff, G.M., Davis, A.M., Parsons, M.S., Dennis, E.B., Fox, R., Botham, M.S., Bourn, N.A.D. (2025). Traits data for the butterflies and macro-moths of Great Britain and Ireland, 2024. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/dbc7cc17-cbbd-49dd-bab4-8e8855768d66
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Botham, M. Point of contact Butterfly Conservation Cook, P.M. Author Butterfly Conservation Tordoff, G.M.
Author Butterfly Conservation Davis, A.M.
Author Butterfly Conservation Parsons, M.S.
Author Butterfly Conservation Dennis, E.B. Author Butterfly Conservation Fox, R. Author UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Botham, M.S. Author Butterfly Conservation Bourn, N.A.D. Author NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Custodian NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Publisher Butterfly Conservation EMAIL NOT PROVIDED
Owner
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Habitats and Biotopes
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- Keywords
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- Biodiversity
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database
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butterflies
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ecology
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Lepidoptera
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moths
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trait
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trend
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- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- no limitations
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If you reuse this data, you should cite: Cook, P.M., Tordoff, G.M., Davis, A.M., Parsons, M.S., Dennis, E.B., Fox, R., Botham, M.S., Bourn, N.A.D. (2025). Traits data for the butterflies and macro-moths of Great Britain and Ireland, 2024. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/dbc7cc17-cbbd-49dd-bab4-8e8855768d66
- Spatial representation type
- Text, table
- Distance
- 100 urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
- Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Biota
- Begin date
- 2024-01-01
- End date
- 2024-12-31
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- Unique resource identifier
- WGS 84
- Distribution format
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Name Version Comma-separated values (CSV)
- Distributor contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
Distributor
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/dbc7cc17-cbbd-49dd-bab4-8e8855768d66 Download the data
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/dbc7cc17-cbbd-49dd-bab4-8e8855768d66.zip Supporting information
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- Dataset
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dataset
Conformance result
- Title
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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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Data were collated from a range of referenced sources as described in the metadata. Where required expert opinion was used to determine traits, for example regarding habitat.
Metadata
- File identifier
- dbc7cc17-cbbd-49dd-bab4-8e8855768d66 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- 8859 Part 1
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
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dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-11-13T16:17:28
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
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2.3
- Metadata author
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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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