UK Environmental Change Network (ECN) bat data: 1993-2015

Bat species data from the UK Environmental Change Network (ECN) terrestrial sites. The count of individual species is recorded. These data are collected while walking a defined transect using a bat detector at ECN's terrestrial sites using a standard protocol. They represent continuous records (the transects are walked four times each year) from 1993 to 2015. ECN is the UK's long-term environmental monitoring programme. It is a multi-agency programme sponsored by a consortium of fourteen government departments and agencies. These organisations contribute to the programme through funding either site monitoring and/or network co-ordination activities. These organisations are: Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute, Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, Cyfoeth Naturiol Cymru - Natural Resources Wales, Defence Science & Technology Laboratory, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Environment Agency, Forestry Commission, Llywodraeth Cymru - Welsh Government, Natural England, Natural Environment Research Council, Northern Ireland Environment Agency, Scottish Environment Protection Agency, Scottish Government and Scottish Natural Heritage. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/2588ee91-6cbd-4888-86fc-81858d1bf085

INSPIRE
SDS

Identification

File identifier: 2588ee91-6cbd-4888-86fc-81858d1bf085 XML

Hierarchy level: dataset Dataset

Online resource

Resource identifier

code: https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/2588ee91-6cbd-4888-86fc-81858d1bf085

Metadata language: EnglishEnglish

Spatial representation type: textTable Text, table

Encoding

Format: Comma-separated values (CSV)

Projection

code: WGS 84

Classification of data and services

Topic category

Biota

Classification of data and services

Coupled resource

Classification of data and services

Coupled resource

Keywords

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Environmental Monitoring Facilities

Wikidata

GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3

GeoNames

Other keywords

Keywords

Environmental survey
Drayton
Glensaugh
Hillsborough
North Wyke
Rothamsted
Sourhope
Wytham
Alice Holt
Yr Wyddfa - Snowdon
Bat species
Environmental Change Network
ILTER
LTER
BA

Geographic coverage

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin: 1993-06-16

Temporal extent

Date (Publication): 2017-11-10

Quality and validity

Lineage: Data are collected while walking a defined transect using a bat detector at all of ECN's terrestrial sites using a standard protocol,four times each year. Prior to deposit of the data in the EIDC, data are managed by the ECN Data Centre at CEH Lancaster according to defined protocols. Verification steps include numeric range checks (i.e. checking if a value falls within a specified range), categorical checks (e.g. checking that a species code appears on the standard code list), formatting (i.e. that the dataset conforms to the specified data format) and logical integrity checks (i.e. checking the data make sense, e.g. that the dates in one dataset match those in a related dataset). Appropriate range settings for ECN variables have been selected following discussion with specialists in each field. Where data fall outside these ranges, a cautious approach has been adopted towards discarding data on the principle that apparent errors may be valid outliers. Such values are discarded only if there is a clear explanation (e.g. an instrumentation error) and corrections are made where possible. If the reason is unclear, the values are stored, but are qualified using pre-defined quality codes or free-text descriptions. Data providers also use these codes or free text to describe factors affecting sampling outside their control, instrument damage or site management effects.

Distance: 100 urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001

Conformity

Restrictions on access and use

Access constraints: no limitations

Access constraints: This resource is made available under the terms of the Open Government Licence

Access constraints: © UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

Access constraints: If you reuse this data, you should cite: Rennie, S., Adamson, J., Anderson, R., Andrews, C., Bater, J., Bayfield, N., Beaton, K., Beaumont, D., Benham, S., Bowmaker, V., Britt, C., Brooker, R., Brooks, D., Brunt, J., Common, G., Cooper, R., Corbett, S., Critchley, N., Dennis, P., Dick, J., Dodd, B., Dodd, N., Donovan, N., Easter, J., Flexen, M., Gardiner, A., Hamilton, D., Hargreaves, P., Hatton-Ellis, M., Howe, M., Kahl, J., Lane, M., Langan, S., Lloyd, D., Lundy, M., McElarney, Y., McKenna, C., McMillan, S., Milne, F., Milne, L., Morecroft, M., Murphy, M., Nelson, A., Nicholson, H., Pallett, D., Parry, D., Pearce, I., Pozsgai, G., Rose, R., Schafer, S., Scott, T., Sherrin, L., Shortall, C., Smith, R., Smith, P., Tait, R., Taylor, C., Taylor, M., Thurlow, M., Turner, A., Tyson, K., Watson, H., Whittaker, M., Wood, C. (2017). UK Environmental Change Network (ECN) bat data: 1993-2015. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/2588ee91-6cbd-4888-86fc-81858d1bf085