United Kingdom Butterfly Monitoring Scheme: site location data 2019
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© UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
© Butterfly Conservation
© British Trust for Ornithology
© Natural Environment Research Council
© Joint Nature Conservation Committee
Contains UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme (UKBMS) data © copyright and database right Butterfly Conservation, the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, British Trust for Ornithology, and the Joint Nature Conservation Committee.
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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 year new sites each 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 Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH), 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.
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OSNI 1952 / Irish National Grid
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This dataset is available under the terms of the Open Government Licence
© UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
© Butterfly Conservation
© British Trust for Ornithology
© Natural Environment Research Council
© Joint Nature Conservation Committee
Contains UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme (UKBMS) data © copyright and database right Butterfly Conservation, the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, British Trust for Ornithology, and the Joint Nature Conservation Committee.
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United Kingdom Butterfly Monitoring Scheme (UKBMS) 1976-2019 data
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Wallingford
Oxfordshire
OX10 8BB
UNITED KINGDOM