Moth trends for Britain and Ireland from the Rothamsted Insect Survey light-trap network (1968 to 2016)

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• Last updated: 03 May 2023
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Summary

The dataset contains abundance trends for 432 species of moths (mostly macro-moths) estimated using the data collected by Rothamsted Insect Survey (RIS) from their light-trap network between the years 1968 and 2016. The trends were calculated using a Generalized Abundance Index (GAI) model. The trends are presented as year coefficients from the statistical model, Annual Growth Rates (AGR), and the total percentage changes over the time series for each species. For each trend metric 95% and 90% confidence intervals are provided. Two versions of the trends are presented: one using data from all traps in the Britain & Ireland over the period of 1968-2016 and a second dataset restricted to traps in Great Britain over the period of 1970-2016. Data acquisition was partially funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) under research programme NE/N018125/1 Achieving Sustainable Agricultural Systems (ASSIST). ASSIST is an initiative jointly supported by NERC and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC). The Rothamsted Insect Survey is funded by the BBSRC under the Core Capability Grant BBS/E/C/000J0200. The research builds upon model development supported by NERC award number NE/R016429/1 as part of the UK-SCAPE programme delivering National Capability. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/0a7d65e8-8bc8-46e5-ab72-ee64ed851583

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• Added to data.gov.uk: 2023-04-27T14:31:45
• Access contraints: © UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
• Harvest GUID: 0a7d65e8-8bc8-46e5-ab72-ee64ed851583
• Extent: Latitude: 60.861° to 49.864°
• Extent: Longitude: -10.669° to 1.768°
• Dataset reference date: 2020-04-20 (publication)
• Responsible party: UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (pointOfContact, author); NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre (custodian); NERC Environmental Information Data Centre (publisher); Rothamsted Research (author); Butterfly Conservation (author)
• ISO 19139 resource type: dataset
• Metadata language: eng
• Source Metadata: XML
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