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

• Main Authors: 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.
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 2017
• Subjects: United Kingdom; Drayton; Glensaugh; Hillsborough; Moor House - Upper Teesdale; North Wyke; Rothamsted; Sourhope; Wytham; Alice Holt; Porton Down; Yr Wyddfa - Snowdon; Cairngorms; Environmental survey; Bat species; Environmental Change Network; ILTER; LTER; BA; mammal; vertebrate; chiropteran; Eptesicus serotinus; Myotis bechsteinii; Myotis daubentonii; Myotis brandtii; Myotis myotis; Myotis mystacinus; Myotis nattereri; Nyctalus leisleri; Nyctalus noctula; Pipistrellus pipistrellus; Pipistrellus pygmaeus; Plecotus auritus; Plecotus austriacus; Rhinolophus ferrumequinum; Rhinolophus hipposideros; Barbastella barbastellus
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5285/2588ee91-6cbd-4888-86fc-81858d1bf085; https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/2588ee91-6cbd-4888-86fc-81858d1bf085

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, ... : 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 ...