e3598268-22d7-4913-a736-890728ea858b English ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1) dataset dataset NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg Lancaster LA1 4AP UK info@eidc.ac.uk https://eidc.ac.uk/ EIDC website The Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC) is the UK's national data centre for terrestrial and freshwater sciences. information pointOfContact 2025-11-13T16:22:50 UK GEMINI 2.3 OSGB 1936 / British National Grid Lepidoptera distribution and behaviour data from a mown boundary experiment within the Stonehenge landscape, UK, in 2012 2014-09-01 publication 10.5285/e3598268-22d7-4913-a736-890728ea858b doi: https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/e3598268-22d7-4913-a736-890728ea858b Twiston-Davies, G., Mortimer, S.R., Mitchley, J. (2014). Lepidoptera distribution and behaviour data from a mown boundary experiment within the Stonehenge landscape, UK, in 2012. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/e3598268-22d7-4913-a736-890728ea858b his dataset consists of behaviour and distribution data of Lepidoptera from mown chalk grassland boundaries at the Stonehenge World Heritage Site in Wiltshire, UK, between July and August 2012. The landscape consisted of a mosaic of chalk grassland fragments on ancient burial mounds (barrows) and slopes, grassland re-creation fields of different ages since sowing, semi-improved pasture, arable farmland and woodland. In one of the grassland re-creation fields, two large areas were mown and eight 20 m long survey boundaries were set up. Four of these were set up on the edge of one of two mown areas and four were set up in areas of continuous un-mown grass which had dummy 'boundaries' parallel to the mown boundaries. The survey was conducted from the survey boundary and the flight path of individual Lepidoptera was tracked in the area 10 m either side of the survey boundary. Each individual Lepidoptera flight path was surveyed for three minutes. Each boundary was surveyed for a total of 20 minutes on three occasions over a five week period. The sequence of boundaries surveyed was chosen randomly and equal survey effort was allocated to visually searching both sides of the boundary. The order and time of day for surveying each survey area was random so to spread surveys throughout the survey period and throughout the day. Measures of vegetation characteristics and nectar flower availability were recorded for survey areas. Recorded vegetation characteristics included vegetation height and density. Nectar flower availability was measured as the number of flowering units of nectar flowers and numbers of those in the Asteraceae, Fabaceae and Dipsacaceae families. The data were collected as part of a PhD project funded by the Natural Environment Research Council and the National Trust. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/e3598268-22d7-4913-a736-890728ea858b Twiston-Davies, G. University of Reading imps@reading.ac.uk pointOfContact Twiston-Davies, G. University of Reading imps@reading.ac.uk author Mortimer, S.R. University of Reading imps@reading.ac.uk author Mitchley, J. University of Reading imps@reading.ac.uk author NERC Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian notPlanned Environmental Monitoring Facilities theme GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication lepidopteran butterfly grassland restoration GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3 2019-01-28 creation United Kingdom Wiltshire Stonehenge GeoNames 2006-01-01 creation Animal behaviour day flying moths grassland restoration otherRestrictions no limitations otherRestrictions This resource is available under the terms of the Open Government Licence otherRestrictions © University of Reading otherRestrictions The following statement must also be used when reusing the data: 'Data collected from a project funded by the Natural Environment Research Council and the National Trust' otherRestrictions If you reuse this data, you should cite: Twiston-Davies, G., Mortimer, S.R., Mitchley, J. (2014). Lepidoptera distribution and behaviour data from a mown boundary experiment within the Stonehenge landscape, UK, in 2012. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/e3598268-22d7-4913-a736-890728ea858b textTable English utf8 biota 2012-07-24 2012-08-23 -1.857 -1.78 51.168 51.197 Comma-separated values (CSV) NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/e3598268-22d7-4913-a736-890728ea858b Download the data Download a copy of this data download https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/e3598268-22d7-4913-a736-890728ea858b.zip Supporting information Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset information dataset dataset 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 2010-12-08 Data provided is as collected. Outliers and anomalies from pivot tables and exploratory analysis have been checked using results from previous research, particularly for species which are likely or not likely to occur in the area.