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Botham, M.S.; Middlebrook, I.; Harris, S.; Harrower, C.; Lowe, M.; Roy, D.B.

United Kingdom Butterfly Monitoring Scheme: site location data 2021 v2

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https://doi.org/10.5285/1cfdcd20-afb8-4b58-9ab2-604b90f5242d
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This dataset provides the details of all sites on which butterflies have been monitored as part of the UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme (UKBMS). This includes all standard UKBMS transect sites, Wider Countryside Butterfly Survey (WCBS) sites and targeted species survey sites (timed counts, single-species transects, larval web and egg counts). Data includes the location within the UK, the length and number of sections for the butterfly transect on each site and the number of years each transect has been monitored. The location of some sites are sensitive and are excluded from this dataset. Users requiring access to the complete dataset, including sensitive site location data, can submit a request via the UKBMS website. The UKBMS started in 1976 with fewer than 50 sites. Since then the number of sites monitored each year has increased to several thousand. There are new sites each year and a small number where the transect is no longer surveyed. Details of this are provided in the site dataset in the form of the first and last year in which each site was surveyed.

The majority of site data is provided by recorders at the time a transect is created. Site data are crucial in order to determine where extra recording effort is required and to investigate where butterfly populations are changing most and thus where conservation should be targeted, including across different habitat types.

The UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme is organized and funded by Butterfly Conservation (BC), the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH), the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO), and the Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC). The UKBMS is indebted to all volunteers who contribute data to the scheme.

This work was supported by the Natural Environment Research Council award number NE/R016429/1 as part of the UK-SCAPE programme delivering National Capability.
Publication date: 2023-02-09
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Format

Comma-separated values (CSV)

Spatial information

Study area
Spatial representation type
Tabular (text)
Spatial reference systems
OSGB 1936 / British National Grid
OSNI 1952 / Irish National Grid

Temporal information

Temporal extent
2021-04-01    to    2021-09-30

Provenance & quality

Site location data provide details about the linear transect at each UKBMS site. Data on the location and length and width of each transect are provided by the recorder for each site. Data on how long each transect has been monitored is calculated as the time period between when a transect was first and last monitored.

Licensing and constraints

This dataset is available under the terms of the Open Government Licence

Cite this dataset as:
Botham, M.S.; Middlebrook, I.; Harris, S.; Harrower, C.; Lowe, M.; Roy, D.B. (2023). United Kingdom Butterfly Monitoring Scheme: site location data 2021 v2. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/1cfdcd20-afb8-4b58-9ab2-604b90f5242d

Contains UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme (UKBMS) data © copyright and database right Butterfly Conservation, the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, British Trust for Ornithology, and the Joint Nature Conservation Committee.

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This dataset is included in the following collections

United Kingdom Butterfly Monitoring Scheme (UKBMS) 1976-2021 data

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Correspondence/contact details

Marc Botham
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Maclean Building, Benson Lane, Crowmarsh Gifford
Wallingford
Oxfordshire
OX10 8BB
UNITED KINGDOM
 enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

Authors

Botham, M.S.
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Middlebrook, I.
Butterfly Conservation
Harris, S.
British Trust for Ornithology
Harrower, C.
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Lowe, M.
Butterfly Conservation
Roy, D.B.
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

Other contacts

Rights holders
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Butterfly Conservation, British Trust for Ornithology, Natural Environment Research Council, Joint Nature Conservation Committee
Custodian
NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
 info@eidc.ac.uk
Publisher
NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
 info@eidc.ac.uk

Additional metadata

Topic categories
biota
INSPIRE theme
Environmental Monitoring Facilities
Keywords
biodiversity , Biodiversity , butterfly , England , lepidopteran , Northern Ireland , Scotland , UK-SCAPE , United Kingdom , Wales
Funding
Natural Environment Research Council Award: NE/R016429/1
Last updated
27 February 2024 16:22