Flower-insect timed count data from the UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme, 2017-2021
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- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Character set
- utf8
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2024-07-25
- Identifier
- doi: / 10.5285/761cee06-cb94-476e-bb62-69ae634aa5ca
- Other citation details
- UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme (2024). Flower-insect timed count data from the UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme, 2017-2021. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/761cee06-cb94-476e-bb62-69ae634aa5ca
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- The following acknowledgement is required for use of this dataset: The UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme (PoMS) is a partnership funded jointly by UKCEH and JNCC (through funding from Defra, Scottish Government, Welsh Government, and DAERA). UKCEH’s contribution is funded by the Natural Environment Research Council award number NE/R016429/1 as part of the UK-SCAPE programme delivering National Capability. Between 2017 and 2021, PoMS was funded by UKCEH and Defra (England), Welsh Government, Scottish Government, DAERA (Northern Ireland), and JNCC. PoMS is indebted to the many volunteers who carry out surveys and contribute data to the scheme.
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- If you reuse this data, you should cite: UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme (2024). Flower-insect timed count data from the UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme, 2017-2021. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/761cee06-cb94-476e-bb62-69ae634aa5ca
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- textTable
- Distance
- 1000 urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
- Topic category
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- Biota
- Environment
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- Begin date
- 2017-01-01
- End date
- 2021-12-31
- Code
- WGS 84
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- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
- Public FIT Counts are carried out at locations and dates chosen by the participants, at any time when weather conditions are suitable between 1 April and 30 September each year. A set of fourteen target flower types is provided, but participants are free to choose a different flower if a target species is not available. Guidance is provided to participants on how to select a suitable location and position a quadrat, and on how to identify the insect group categories when counting visiting insects. One km square FIT Counts follow the same methodology for the ten-minute count, but take place in up to 95 1 km squares, during four visits each summer, aiming for one visit in each month from May to August. There will be gaps in the data where a square cannot be visited during a particular year or month. Data is entered using online forms that promote consistency in data formats. QA checks are carried out on any photos provided of the target flowers, and these are corrected where the original identification is not correct. Participants can optionally add photos to show examples of the insect groups that they have seen and counted, although these photos should not be taken during the count itself (so as to avoid disturbing visiting insects) so cannot be corrected in the same way.
Metadata
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- 761cee06-cb94-476e-bb62-69ae634aa5ca XML
- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Character set
- ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1)
- Resource type
- dataset
- Hierarchy level name
- dataset
- Metadata Date
- 2024-08-19T10:15:43
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3