Identification

Title

UK Biodiversity Indicator B4, Pressure from climate change - spring index

Abstract

This spreadsheet is the underlying data for the biodiversity indicator B4, Pressure from climate change - spring index. Phenology is the study of the timing of recurring natural events in relation to climate, and such observations provide year-on-year information on how nature is responding to a changing climate. This indicator illustrates the stress that one aspect of climate change (spring warming) can place on biological systems. Differential responses among species may cause problems for life cycles (e.g. pollinating insects emerging out of synchrony with flowers opening in spring), increasing vulnerability to extreme events such as late frosts, disruption of food webs, and changing the balance of competition between species. This is a context indicator, and is not assessed; it is shown to highlight a biological response to climate change and a potential pressure on biological systems. It shows the impact of temperature change on the timing of biological events such as flowering or migration in the spring. This is one of a suite of 24 UK biodiversity indicators published by JNCC on behalf of Defra; the latest publication date was 19 January 2016 - for indicator B4 the latest data are for 2015.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

http://jncc.defra.gov.uk/page-4247

name: page-4247

Unique resource identifier

code

7e76b004-1796-4d9b-955d-3da6c790bba3

codeSpace

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Additional information source

http://jncc.defra.gov.uk/page-4247 Data set supported by a Word document (B4 - Pressure from climate change - spring index.docx) containing all of the website text, and two jpeg images (UKBI2015_B4i_Final.jpg, UKBI2015_B4ii_Final.jpg).

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

environment

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Terrestrial

UK Biodiversity

Evidence

Biodiversity

climate change

indicator

phenology

spring

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-8.65

East bounding longitude

2.0

North bounding latitude

61.0

South bounding latitude

49.77

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

1891

End position

2015

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2016-01-19

Frequency of update

Quality and validity

Lineage

Source: 1891 to 1947 - Royal Meteorological Society; 1999 to 2015 - UK Phenology Network.

Conformity

Data format

name of format

Microsoft Excel for Windows

version of format

Unknown

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Use constraints

Released under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Attribution statement "Contains public sector information from the Royal Meteorological Society, and the UK Phenology Network, licenced under the Open Government Licence v3.0"

Limitations on public access

No limitations

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

organisation name

Digital and Data Solutions, JNCC

email address

data@jncc.gov.uk

responsible party role

distributor

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

Digital and Data Solutions, JNCC

email address

data@jncc.gov.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2018-05-17

Metadata language

eng