United Kingdom Butterfly Monitoring Scheme: site location data 2012

https://doi.org/10.5285/b00c37c7-43ca-495e-aa79-e691d46c9ffa

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This dataset provides the details of all sites which have been monitored as part of the UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme (UKBMS). Data includes the location within the UK, the length and width of the line transect on each site, and how long the transect has been monitored. The UKBMS started in 1976 with fewer than 50 sites. The number of sites monitored each year has increased to over a thousand since 2008. There is turnover in sites monitored each year and details of the first and last year in which each site was surveyed are given. The majority of site data is provided by recorders at the time a transect is created. The majority of these recorders are volunteers. The Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH) and Butterfly Conservation (BC) collate the data and the UKBMS is funded by a consortium of organisations led by the Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC).

Publication date: 2013-05-01

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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

1976-04-01 to 2012-09-01

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. This dataset has been superseded by a more recent version 'United Kingdom Butterfly Monitoring Scheme: site location data 2013'.

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Botham, M.; Roy, D.; Brereton, T.; Middlebrook, I.; Randle, Z. (2013). United Kingdom Butterfly Monitoring Scheme: site location data 2012. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/b00c37c7-43ca-495e-aa79-e691d46c9ffa

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United Kingdom Butterfly Monitoring Scheme (UKBMS) 1976-2012 data

Supplemental information

UKBMS website

This is a web page which provides data for each butterfly species at each monitored site. It also provides links to reports, UKBMS related publications and to UKBMS statistics in addition to maps of sites.