Caterpillar activity under experimentally manipulated light conditions, Oxfordshire, UK, winter 2019
Counts of caterpillars arising from a short-term experiment that installed lighting rigs in previously unlit areas to test for a change in nocturnal feeding behaviour. Caterpillars were counted from lit and control transects at two locations in Oxfordshire during January and February 2019. Lighting rigs were installed during the afternoon and switched on one hour before sunset. To give the nocturnal caterpillars time to become active, sampling occurred between 60 and 120 minutes after sunset. On a sampling night, all transects were sampled within a 5–10-minute period. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/7e7ce7c1-aa16-484f-86b1-90c5b088a64c
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biota
Environmental Monitoring Facilities
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2008-06-01
Artificial light at night
ecology
insect populations
Lepidoptera
Street lighting
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-0.337
52.273
51.27
2019-01-22
2019-02-16
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2021-07-08
Data were generated by collecting larvae in field using sweep netting (as detailed in the methods). Data quality assurance included data collection via standardised recording forms, data entry using drop down menus and automated calculations. Following data entry, records were double checked to ensure accidental typing errors were removed and to check for apparent outliers.
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2010-12-08
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If you reuse this data, you should cite: Boyes, D.H., Evans, D.M., Fox, R., Parsons, M.S., Pocock, M.J.O. (2021). Caterpillar activity under experimentally manipulated light conditions, Oxfordshire, UK, winter 2019. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/7e7ce7c1-aa16-484f-86b1-90c5b088a64c
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