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Botham, M.S., Middlebrook, I., Heywood, J., Harrower, C., Conway, R., Roy, D.B. (2023). United Kingdom Butterfly Monitoring Scheme: species trends 2022. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre. (Dataset). https://doi.org/10.5285/4d21825b-56fc-4e01-8d67-068d1d587633
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United Kingdom Butterfly Monitoring Scheme: species trends 2022
Trends are calculated by performing a linear regression on the annual Collated indices for each species. Collated indices are calculated using a log-linear model incorporating individual site indices from all monitored sites across the UK for a given species in a given year.
Trends across different time series allow us to determine the long and short-term status of individual species. This is enables us to focus conservation and research and also to assess species responses to conservation already in place.
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.
#Because the Collated indices are only calculated for each species in years in which it was recorded on five or more sites, the starting year for the series is later than 1976 for a number of rarer species.
Format
Comma-separated values (CSV)
Spatial information
- Study area
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- Spatial representation type
- Tabular (text)
- Spatial reference systems
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OSGB 1936 / British National Grid
OSNI 1952 / Irish National Grid
Temporal information
- Temporal extent
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2022-04-01 to 2022-09-30
Provenance & quality
Related
This dataset is included in the following collections
United Kingdom Butterfly Monitoring Scheme (UKBMS) 1976-2022 data
Supplemental information
Correspondence/contact details
Wallingford
Oxfordshire
OX10 8BB
UNITED KINGDOM
Authors
Other contacts
- Rights holders
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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Butterfly Conservation, British Trust for Ornithology, Natural Environment Research Council, Joint Nature Conservation Committee
- Custodian
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NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centreinfo@eidc.ac.uk
- Publisher
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NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centreinfo@eidc.ac.uk
Additional metadata
- Topic categories
- biota
- INSPIRE theme
- Environmental Monitoring Facilities
- Keywords
- annual , Biodiversity , butterfly , England , lepidopteran , Northern Ireland , Scotland , UK-SCAPE , United Kingdom , Wales
- Funding
- NERC Award: NE/R016429/1
Butterfly Conservation
Joint Nature Conservation Committee - Last updated
- 27 February 2024 16:21
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This dataset is available under the terms of the Open Government Licence
CITE AS: Botham, M.S.; Middlebrook, I.; Heywood, J.; Harrower, C.; Conway, R.; Roy, D.B. (2023). United Kingdom Butterfly Monitoring Scheme: species trends 2022. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/4d21825b-56fc-4e01-8d67-068d1d587633
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