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Lepidoptera distribution and behaviour data from a mown boundary experiment within the Stonehenge landscape, UK, in 2012
his dataset consists of behaviour and distribution data of Lepidoptera from mown chalk grassland boundaries at the Stonehenge World Heritage Site in Wiltshire, UK, between July and August 2012. The landscape consisted of a mosaic of chalk grassland fragments on ancient burial mounds (barrows) and slopes, grassland re-creation fields of different ages since sowing, semi-improved pasture, arable farmland and woodland. In one of the grassland re-creation fields, two large areas were mown and eight 20 m long survey boundaries were set up. Four of these were set up on the edge of one of two mown areas and four were set up in areas of continuous un-mown grass which had dummy 'boundaries' parallel to the mown boundaries. The survey was conducted from the survey boundary and the flight path of individual Lepidoptera was tracked in the area 10 m either side of the survey boundary. Each individual Lepidoptera flight path was surveyed for three minutes. Each boundary was surveyed for a total of 20 minutes on three occasions over a five week period. The sequence of boundaries surveyed was chosen randomly and equal survey effort was allocated to visually searching both sides of the boundary. The order and time of day for surveying each survey area was random so to spread surveys throughout the survey period and throughout the day. Measures of vegetation characteristics and nectar flower availability were recorded for survey areas. Recorded vegetation characteristics included vegetation height and density. Nectar flower availability was measured as the number of flowering units of nectar flowers and numbers of those in the Asteraceae, Fabaceae and Dipsacaceae families. The data were collected as part of a PhD project funded by the Natural Environment Research Council and the National Trust. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/e3598268-22d7-4913-a736-890728ea858b
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- Date (Publication)
- 2014-09-01
- Citation identifier
- doi: / 10.5285/e3598268-22d7-4913-a736-890728ea858b
- Citation identifier
- https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/e3598268-22d7-4913-a736-890728ea858b
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Twiston-Davies, G., Mortimer, S.R., Mitchley, J. (2014). Lepidoptera distribution and behaviour data from a mown boundary experiment within the Stonehenge landscape, UK, in 2012. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/e3598268-22d7-4913-a736-890728ea858b
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role University of Reading Twiston-Davies, G.
Point of contact University of Reading Twiston-Davies, G.
Author University of Reading Mortimer, S.R.
Author University of Reading Mitchley, J.
Author NERC Environmental Information Data Centre Publisher NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Custodian
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- Not planned
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GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3
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- Animal behaviour
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day flying moths
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grassland restoration
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© University of Reading
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The following statement must also be used when reusing the data: 'Data collected from a project funded by the Natural Environment Research Council and the National Trust'
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If you reuse this data, you should cite: Twiston-Davies, G., Mortimer, S.R., Mitchley, J. (2014). Lepidoptera distribution and behaviour data from a mown boundary experiment within the Stonehenge landscape, UK, in 2012. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/e3598268-22d7-4913-a736-890728ea858b
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- Text, table
- Language
- English
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- UTF8
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- Biota
- Begin date
- 2012-07-24
- End date
- 2012-08-23
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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/e3598268-22d7-4913-a736-890728ea858b Download the data
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Protocol Linkage Name https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/e3598268-22d7-4913-a736-890728ea858b.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
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Data provided is as collected. Outliers and anomalies from pivot tables and exploratory analysis have been checked using results from previous research, particularly for species which are likely or not likely to occur in the area.
Metadata
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- e3598268-22d7-4913-a736-890728ea858b XML
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- English
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- 8859 Part 1
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- Dataset
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dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-11-13T16:22:50
- 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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