Wild bee abundance and species richness, survey data from Leighfield Forest, Leicestershire and Rutland, 2020

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• Last updated: 16 February 2023
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Summary

This dataset contains records on the abundance and species richness of wild bees along transects in ten 1x1 km survey squares of the Leighfield forest region of Leicestershire and Rutland, UK collected in the Spring and Summer of 2020. The dataset also contains a 10 m resolution raster land cover map of the survey sites and spatially referenced GIS files of the survey transect paths. The work was carried out by the data authors to assess pollinator abundance and species richness within the rural landscape of Leighfield Forest. The research was funded through NERC Grant Reference : NE/L002493/1Central England NERC Training Alliance (CENTA) Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/4f4d2ef6-2f31-4aa6-aa1a-fe79cc6d6b04

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• Added to data.gov.uk: 2022-08-08T13:19:34
• Access contraints: If you reuse this data, you should cite: Szczur, J., Rayner, M., Stoate, C. (2021). Wild bee abundance and species richness, survey data from Leighfield Forest, Leicestershire and Rutland, 2020. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/4f4d2ef6-2f31-4aa6-aa1a-fe79cc6d6b04
• Harvest GUID: 4f4d2ef6-2f31-4aa6-aa1a-fe79cc6d6b04
• Extent: Latitude: 52.655° to 52.588°
• Extent: Longitude: -0.939° to -0.823°
• Dataset reference date: 2021-05-10 (publication)
• Responsible party: Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust (author, owner); University of Leicester (author, pointOfContact); NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre (custodian); NERC Environmental Information Data Centre (publisher)
• ISO 19139 resource type: dataset
• Metadata language: eng
• Source Metadata: XML
• Source Metadata: HTML

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