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The second stage takes these annual flight curves and uses them to correct for seasonal gaps in recording, producing estimated annual abundance indices for each site (site indices), to which a Poisson general linear model (GLM) is fitted allowing to the year and sites effects upon the site. The year coefficient from these GLMs are one of the measures of the temporal abundance trend presented in this data. In addition to the coefficient itself two additional metrics of temporal trend were estimated and are presented here, specifically the Annual Growth Rate (AGR) and the total percentage change over the time series for each species. 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This data was derived from DNA meta-barcoding of pollen extracted from honey samples provided by bee keepers archived as part of the UK National Honey Monitoring Scheme (https://honey-monitoring.ac.uk/). All data provided is from the first full year of the scheme in 2019. \n\nWorking in partnership with UK beekeepers, the National Honey Monitoring Scheme aims to use honeybees to monitor long-term changes in the condition and health of the UK countryside. Data associated with subsequent years will be made available as samples are processed.\n\nThe Honey Monitoring Scheme is supported by national capability funding from UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology under the ASSIST programme. ","documentType":"GEMINI_DOCUMENT","familyName":["Woodcock","Oliver","Newbold","Gweon","Roy","Pywell"],"fullName":["Woodcock, B.A.","Oliver, A.E.","Newbold, L.K.","Gweon, H.S.","Roy, D.B.","Pywell, R.F."],"funder":["Natural Environment Research Council"],"givenName":["B.A. ","A.E.","L.K.","H.S.","D.B.","R.F."],"grant":["NE/N018125/1"],"identifier":"e9ec63be-3f2b-4d1b-b9bf-77ca2b96c7f5","incomingCitationCount":0,"keyword":["United Kingdom","Agriculture","Biodiversity","Pollinators","Honey","DNA Metabarcoding","Forage plants","National Honey Monitoring Scheme","Assist","Apis mellifera","Honeybee","pollen","forage crop"],"keywordsOther":["Honey","DNA Metabarcoding","Forage plants","National Honey Monitoring Scheme","Assist","Apis mellifera","Honeybee","pollen","forage crop"],"keywordsPlace":["United Kingdom"],"keywordsTheme":["Agriculture","Biodiversity","Pollinators"],"licence":"Open government licence","lineage":"All honey samples were submitted following an application though the National Honey Monitoring Scheme online portal which required minimum meta-data on site location and sample date which was verified.   This included in some cases additional data on hive health metrics.  DNA meta-barcoding to rapidly process samples to identify plant species.  Quality assurance of the DNA metabarcoding was delivered through operational deployment of sophisticated protocols for barcoding and interpreting large volumes of honey samples. To do this we developed the HONEYPI pipeline implemented in python 2.7 and is open access (https://github.com/hsgweon/honeypi).  The HONEYPI pipeline is divided into several parts as follows: 1) the raw amplicon sequences are quality filtered and adapters removed; 2) DADA2 pipeline is subsequently used to generate an Amplicon Sequence Variant (ASV) abundance table containing chimera-removed, high-quality error-corrected sequences. 3). For each ASV, conserved regions flanking ITS2 are removed; and (4) resulting sequences taxonomically classified using the naive Bayesian classifier against in-house ITS2 database.  Since HONEYPI uses ASVs rather than clusters of sequences for classification, it allows combining of ASV tables, i.e. data from two or more separate sequencing runs can be merged without re-clustering sequences. \n\nA full open access methodological paper describing this approach is given in Oliver et al (2021) MethodsX, 8, 101303 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mex.2021.101303)","locations":["POLYGON((-8.648 49.864, -8.648 60.861, 1.768 60.861, 1.768 49.864, -8.648 49.864))"],"metadataDate":"2026-07-03T08:42:08.000Z","orcid":["https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0300-9951","https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4923-277X","https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8895-1406","https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6218-6301","https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5147-0331","https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6431-9959"],"organisation":["UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology","University of Reading","NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre"],"publicationDate":"2022-01-18T00:00:00.000Z","recordType":"Dataset","resourceIdentifier":["https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/e9ec63be-3f2b-4d1b-b9bf-77ca2b96c7f5","10.5285/e9ec63be-3f2b-4d1b-b9bf-77ca2b96c7f5","doi:10.5285/e9ec63be-3f2b-4d1b-b9bf-77ca2b96c7f5"],"resourceType":"Dataset","rightsHolder":["UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology"],"ror":["https://ror.org/00pggkr55","https://ror.org/05v62cm79","https://ror.org/04xw4m193"],"shortenedDescription":"The following data set describes regional and temporal occurrence of plants foraged upon by managed honey bees (Apis mellifera).  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On these fields we established three system level treatments of: 1) control with typical conventional arable agricultural management; 2) Enhancement of biodiversity using targeted wild flower sown field margins and the use of cover crops sown before spring crops to support soil health; 3) Enhancement of biodiversity using targeted wild flower sown field margins, sown in-field strips, the application of organic matter (manure or green composted waste) and the use of cover crops sown before spring crops.  All sites were allowed to have their typical rotations and farm management, but these were kept consistent for the three fields within a site.  Management was conventional and would involve the use of agro-chemicals.  This data set reports hand searching of wheat and spring barley crops (where present in a rotation) to quantify the presence of insect pests (e.g. aphids) and predators (e.g. Syrphidae larvae).  This was undertaken at replicated points along a spatial sampling grid established on each field as well as in the field margins and infield strips.  Sampling was undertaken from 2018-2021.  \n\nThis dataset is due to be available in Spring 2023.\n\nData acquisition was funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) under research programme NE/N018125/1 ASSIST – Achieving Sustainable Agricultural Systems www.assist.ceh.ac.uk. 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