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Morphometric measurements relating to 177 macro-moth species collected in the UK, 2017
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- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Character set
- utf8
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2021-06-29
- Identifier
- doi: / 10.5285/3a813bd9-59ae-476e-a170-ab83fe1587b2
- Other citation details
- Dally, T., Evans, W. L., Jane, J. (2021). Morphometric measurements relating to 177 macro-moth species collected in the UK, 2017. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/3a813bd9-59ae-476e-a170-ab83fe1587b2
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ()
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- Habitats and Biotopes
- Keywords
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- Moths
- Lepidoptera
- Rothamsted Insect Survey
- light trap
- morphometric
- forewing
- body length
- abdomen
- thorax
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- If you reuse this data, you should cite: Dally, T., Evans, W. L., Jane, J. (2021). Morphometric measurements relating to 177 macro-moth species collected in the UK, 2017. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/3a813bd9-59ae-476e-a170-ab83fe1587b2
- Spatial representation type
- textTable
- Distance
- 0.0001 urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
- Topic category
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- Biota
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- Begin date
- 2017-05-11
- End date
- 2017-07-26
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Report
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
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Since the RIS light-trap network does not collect and store physical samples, our morphometric trait database was primarily constructed using images of these 177 macro-moth species, namely digitised specimens from the collection of the Natural History Museum, London (NHM). Measurements were taken from 5 randomly-selected digitised specimens per species using ImageJ software. Where significant sexual dimorphism was present within a species, 5 specimens were randomly selected per sex per species.
For macro-moth species without digitised records from the NHM, measurements were taken from the (to scale) photographic colour plates within Skinner, B. 2009. Colour Identification Guide to Moths of the British Isles. 3rd ed. Stenstrup, Denmark: Apollo Books, using Duratool digital callipers (resolution: 0.1mm; accuracy: ±0.2mm).
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- File identifier
- 3a813bd9-59ae-476e-a170-ab83fe1587b2 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
- 2022-05-18T12:28:43
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
