Geographic distances between pairs of wild bumblebee colonies across an agricultural landscape in Buckinghamshire, UK
https://doi.org/10.5285/8b3f4857-9809-43cb-b2aa-a988e64a5449
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Dreier, S.; Redhead, J.W.; Warren, I.; Bourke, A.F.G.; Heard, M.S.; Jordan, W.C.; Sumner, S.; Wang, J.; Carvell, C. (2014). Geographic distances between pairs of wild bumblebee colonies across an agricultural landscape in Buckinghamshire, UK. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/8b3f4857-9809-43cb-b2aa-a988e64a5449
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Geographic distances between pairs of wild bumblebee colonies across an agricultural landscape centred on the Hillesden Estate, Buckinghamshire, UK. Colony locations were estimated using the foraging locations of workers sampled in summer 2011, genotyped and grouped into full-sib families. The spatial structure of five Bombus species (Bombus terrestris, B. lapidarius, B. pascuorum, B. hortorum and B. ruderatus) was determined, with inter-colony distances varying from 7 to 5264 metres. Data were collected as part of a project led by the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, funded under the Insect Pollinators Initiative.
Publication date: 2014-05-08
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Format
Comma-separated values (CSV)
Spatial information
Study area
Spatial representation type
Tabular (text)
Spatial reference system
OSGB 1936 / British National Grid
Temporal information
Temporal extent
2011-06-20 to 2011-08-05
Provenance & quality
Worker bumblebee DNA was sampled non-lethally, stored, extracted, genotyped and individuals assigned to full-sib groups (colonies) using recognised standard protocols. Spatial locations of colonies and inter-colony separation distances were generated in ArcGIS and backed up as Excel files. Data were checked for errors at all stages by staff at the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology and at the Institute of Zoology.
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This dataset is made available under the terms of the Open Government Licence
Cite this dataset as:
Dreier, S.; Redhead, J.W.; Warren, I.; Bourke, A.F.G.; Heard, M.S.; Jordan, W.C.; Sumner, S.; Wang, J.; Carvell, C. (2014). Geographic distances between pairs of wild bumblebee colonies across an agricultural landscape in Buckinghamshire, UK. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/8b3f4857-9809-43cb-b2aa-a988e64a5449
© UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
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Citations
Dreier, S., Redhead, J. W., Warren, I. A., Bourke, A. F. G., Heard, M. S., Jordan, W. C., … Carvell, C. (2014). Fine-scale spatial genetic structure of common and declining bumble bees across an agricultural landscape. Molecular Ecology, 23(14), 3384–3395. https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.12823
Correspondence/contact details
Redhead, J.
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
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Wallingford
Oxfordshire
OX10 8BB
UNITED KINGDOM
enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
Wallingford
Oxfordshire
OX10 8BB
UNITED KINGDOM
Authors
Dreier, S.
Institute of Zoology/University of Bristol
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2233-3848
Warren, I.
Institute of Zoology/University of Bristol
Bourke, A.F.G.
University of East Anglia
Heard, M.S.
Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Jordan, W.C.
Institute of Zoology
Sumner, S.
Institute of Zoology/University of Bristol
Wang, J.
Institute of Zoology
Carvell, C.
Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
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NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
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NERC Environmental Information Data Centre
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