Identification

Title

Abundance of pollinators and diversity of bees in Ghana and the effect of urbanisation and management practices

Abstract

Data consists of abundance counts and diversity of pollinators collected in Ghana. Pollinators were sampled with pan-traps between August and November 2016 in 126 greenspaces spread over an urbanisation gradient and three management practices (amenity lands, farmed sites and informal greenspaces) around Sunyani and Techiman, Ghana. All insects were identified to order in the field. Samples were stored in 70% alcohol before being pinned for identification. Bees and wasps were pinned and differentiated with microscopy based on Goulet and Hubert (1993). Bees were subsequently identified with microscopy to morpho-species following Eardley, Kuhlmann and Pauly (2010). Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/2e245944-ee5b-4612-b866-cafa3a129270

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/2e245944-ee5b-4612-b866-cafa3a129270

name: Download the data

description: Download a copy of this data

function: download

https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/2e245944-ee5b-4612-b866-cafa3a129270.zip

name: Supporting information

description: Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset

function: information

Unique resource identifier

code

https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/2e245944-ee5b-4612-b866-cafa3a129270

codeSpace

doi:

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

biota

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

originating controlled vocabulary

title

Wikidata

reference date

date type

creation

effective date

2012-10-29

Keyword set

keyword value

Hyaleus spp.

Notyhyaleus spp.

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-3.343

East bounding longitude

1.206

North bounding latitude

10.887

South bounding latitude

4.489

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

2016-08-01

End position

2018-11-30

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2018-08-31

Frequency of update

Quality and validity

Lineage

Bee functional diversity was determined based on the literature through a selection of traits relevant for pollinators, namely habitat, pollen specialisation, nesting behaviour, body size (inter-tegula distance measured on all specimens with a caliper), tongue length and sociality. Habitats were described by a visual estimation of the proportion of six habitat features in a 200m radius around the sampling site, namely unmanaged ground vegetation, regularly mown or grazed vegetation, shrub layer vegetation, tree layer vegetation, bare ground and concrete. We estimated the floral resources in a 1m circle around the pan-trap by (1) counting the flowering plant species richness, (2) estimating each species' flower head surface and (3) counting flower head abundance. Identification and analysis were carried out at the University of Leeds, 2017.

Conformity

Conformity report

specification

title

Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

If you reuse this data, you should cite: Guenat, S. , Kunin, W.E., Dougill, A.J., Dallimer, M. (2018). Abundance of pollinators and diversity of bees in Ghana and the effect of urbanisation and management practices. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/2e245944-ee5b-4612-b866-cafa3a129270

custodian

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

Environmental Information Data Centre

full postal address

Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg

Lancaster

LA1 4AP

email address

info@eidc.ac.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2020-09-21T17:06:09

Metadata language

eng