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Flower-insect timed count data from the UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme, 2017-2020 version 2
This dataset contains information on the location of the count, some environmental variables, and the number of insects of each type counted for the Flower-Insect Timed Count survey as part of the UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme (PoMS). It covers the years 2017 to 2020 (note that 2017 was a pilot year and has less data than subsequent years). This is version 2 of the dataset; the previous version contained some duplicate data rows, which have been deduplicated in version 2.
The “public” FIT Count asks volunteer citizen scientists to count the number of insects, identified into broad taxon groups, seen landing on the flowers of a particular target plant within a 50 cm × 50 cm quadrat during a period of ten minutes.
The “1 km square” FIT Count uses the same methodology, but is carried out by PoMS volunteers and staff as part of the PoMS 1 km square survey, which takes place within a randomly allocated set of 1 km squares in England, Scotland and Wales, and also gathers data on pan-trapped insects (see separate dataset).
The UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme is a partnership between the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Bumblebee Conservation Trust, Butterfly Conservation, British Trust for Ornithology, Hymettus, Natural History Museum, University of Reading and University of Leeds, working with the Bees, Wasps and Ants Recording Society, wider stakeholders and volunteer networks. PoMS is jointly funded by Defra, the Welsh and Scottish Governments, JNCC and project partners.
Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/13aed7ac-334f-4bb7-b476-4f1c3da45a13
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- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Character set
- utf8
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2022-11-01
- Identifier
- doi: / 10.5285/13aed7ac-334f-4bb7-b476-4f1c3da45a13
- Other citation details
- UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme (2022). Flower-insect timed count data from the UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme, 2017-2020 version 2. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/13aed7ac-334f-4bb7-b476-4f1c3da45a13
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ()
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- Habitats and Biotopes
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- Pollinators
- Insects
- Monitoring
- Citizen science
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- no limitations
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- The following acknowledgement is required for use of this dataset: The UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme (PoMS) is funded by the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra, England), Welsh Government, Scottish Government, Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA, Northern Ireland), Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC), and through a research partnership agreement between Defra, Natural England and the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) number ECM_54322, which builds upon work supported by the Natural Environment Research Council award number NE/R016429/1 as part of the UK-SCAPE programme delivering National Capability. 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 (2022). Flower-insect timed count data from the UK Pollinator Monitoring Scheme, 2017-2020 version 2. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/13aed7ac-334f-4bb7-b476-4f1c3da45a13
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- textTable
- Distance
- 1000 urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
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- Biota
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- Begin date
- 2017-04-01
- End date
- 2020-09-30
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- Quality Scope
- dataset
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- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
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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 14 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 75 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
- File identifier
- 13aed7ac-334f-4bb7-b476-4f1c3da45a13 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
- 2022-11-02T14:37:31
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
