EBMS Denmark transects

Sampling event
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Publication date:
18 March 2025
License:
CC-BY-NC 4.0

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Description

European Butterfly Monitoring Scheme transect data for Denmark.

Data Records

The data in this sampling event resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 8,712 records.

1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.

Event (core)
8712
Occurrence 
9690

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Versions

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Høye T T, Eskildsen A, Boe A M B, Roy D B, Buur Holbeck H (2025). EBMS Denmark transects. Version 1.1. Biological Records Centre. Samplingevent dataset. https://ipt.brc.ac.uk/resource?r=ebms_denmark_transects&v=1.1

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Biological Records Centre. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: caa38f94-ddeb-43e7-9a27-1ac46d7ddc5c.  Biological Records Centre publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by National Biodiversity Network.

Keywords

Samplingevent; Observation

Contacts

Toke Thomas Høye
  • Point Of Contact
National Coordinator
Department of Ecoscience
C.F. Møllers Allé 8
8000 Aarhus C
DK
Anne Eskildsen
  • Originator
National Coordinator
Naturrådgiverne Eskildsen og Buur
DK
Andreas Michael Bennetsen Boe
  • Originator
Coordinating assistant
Naturrådgiverne Eskildsen og Buur
DK
David B. Roy
  • Originator
Collaborator
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
GB
Heidi Buur Holbeck
  • Originator
Assisting coordinator
Naturrådgiverne Eskildsen og Buur
DK
Toke Thomas Høye
  • Point Of Contact
Administrative point of contact
Department of Ecoscience
C.F. Møllers Allé 8
8000 Aarhus C
DK
+4530183122

Geographic Coverage

Denmark

Bounding Coordinates South West [54.24, 7.471], North East [58.008, 15.699]

Taxonomic Coverage

No Description available

Order Lepidoptera Linnaeus, 1785 (Butterflies and Moths)

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 2018-01-01 / 2024-12-31

Project Data

No Description available

Title Danmarks Dagsommerfugle
Funding Danmarks Dagsommerfugle is funded by Aage V. Jensen Naturfond (Grant number: N2023-0017) and 15. Juni Fonden (Grant number: 2023-0140).

Sampling Methods

Volunteers sample pre-determined transects as regularly as they are able to during the field season (1st April - 31st September). Transects are sampled by the Pollard walk method (Pollard and Yates, 1993), where the observer count butterflies in an imaginary 5x5x5m box while walking the transect route in a slow and even pace. References: Pollard E, Yates TJ. (1993). Monitoring Butterflies for Ecology and Conservation. Chapman & Hall, London

Study Extent Denmark. 1st April - 31st September.
Quality Control Phenological and geographical ranges were defined for each species and used to filter the dataset for observations falling outside of these ranges. The plausibility of these filtered observations was then evaluated individually. Observers were inquired for additional documentation in form of description or photos when needed. Emphasis was both put on the quality of the documentation and observer experience. Records deemed implausible and insufficiently documented were then discarded.

Method step description:

  1. See Sampling Description and Quality Control.

Additional Metadata

Additional_information

Alternative Identifiers caa38f94-ddeb-43e7-9a27-1ac46d7ddc5c
https://ipt.brc.ac.uk/resource?r=ebms_denmark_transects