Data Records
The data in this occurrence 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 50,106 records.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
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How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
BCE (2018): NDFFButterflyData. v1. Butterfly Conservation Europe. Dataset/Occurrence. http://37.97.169.86:8080/ipt/resource?r=ndffbutterflyobservationdata&v=1.0
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The publisher and rights holder of this work is Butterfly Conservation Europe. 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: 421e6128-74cb-48ac-b76e-e419d39e2527. Butterfly Conservation Europe publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Netherlands Biodiversity Information Facility.
Keywords
Occurrence; butterfly; lepidoptera; Observation; butterfly; lepidoptera; Occurrence
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Geographic Coverage
European butterfly observations
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [33.72, -11.25], North East [71.41, 40.25] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Butterfly observation, all identified at species level.
| Order | Lepidoptera (Butterflies) |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 1901-01-01 / 2018-12-31 |
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Project Data
No Description available
| Title | European butterfly monitoring |
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The personnel involved in the project:
Sampling Methods
Visual identification of a single or group of butterflies.
| Study Extent | Data consists of single observations throughout Europe |
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| Quality Control | Data was checked against known distributions and flight times of species. Non-European data and datapoint not above land are excluded. |
Method step description:
- Butterfly observations by experts and volunteers.
Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | 421e6128-74cb-48ac-b76e-e419d39e2527 |
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| https://ipt.vlinderstichting.nl/resource?r=ndffbutterflyobservationdata |