AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Survival and performance of Speckled Wood butterflies in relation to microclimate

The datasets were collected during experiments undertaken to examine survival rates and larval performance of Speckled Wood butterflies (Pararge aegeria) in different habitats (grassland and woodland). The experiments were carried out between 2008 and 2010 by the University of York, at sites in Yorkshire, Great Britain. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/ecb17680-da2e-49ae-b250-2d04a6a08d2a

Tags: Habitats and Biotopes
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
Plant community data from burned peat soil on the Stalybridge estate (UK), October 2018

This dataset is a compilation of results obtained from vegetation surveys in the Stalybride estate moorlands (commonly known as the Saddleworth moors) following a wildfire in 2018. Ten plots were established in October 2018 at the post-fire site which were 10 m x 10 m in size. Five plots were identified as suffering a less severe (shallow) burn. The other 5 plots were in areas where a more severe (deep) burn. In all plots the surface vegetation had been removed by the fire exposing the bare peat. The data file contains: (1) On-site post-fire vegetation data – species ID and coverage, and (2) species presence in the one-year post-fire seed bank. The dataset is the result of research in the light of an NERC Urgency grant entitled 'RECOUP-Moor: Restoring Ecosystem CarbOn Uptake of Post-fire Moorland' (NE/S011943/1, led by Dr. Bjorn Robroek of the University of Southampton (now Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands). Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/56561ed3-55d0-454c-a6b9-7e633ccf9647

Tags: Moorland, Peatland, Soil, Vegetation, Wildfire
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
Morphological data from wild and lab-reared threespine sticklebacks from Icelandic geothermal and ambient sites

The data contain measurements of the morphological shape of threespine stickleback from wild, F1 (filial generation 1) lab-reared, and F2-lab (filial generation 2) reared individuals. These last two groups were bred and reared from eggs in the lab. The files are in tps format and so within these contain the information regarding the population, rearing temperature, and scale factor for each specimen. The populations used are coded in a short form format but we also provide a key to decipher these names in csv format. Photos are also made available with corresponding tps files for F2 hybrid fish. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/a566fc20-a371-42a2-8530-9a3cade09261

Tags: Habitats and Biotopes, Iceland, Stickleback, geometric morphometrics, landmarks
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
Time-activity budgets and energetics of common guillemot, razorbill, Atlantic puffin, and black-legged kittiwake

This dataset reviews key behavioural and physiological traits of four species of seabirds: Common guillemot Uria aalge; Razorbill Alca torda; Atlantic puffin Fratercula arctica; and Black-legged kittiwake Rissa tridactyla. These data describe the daily time allocation to and energetic costs of core activities and other energetically important processes of seabirds during chick-rearing-an energetically demanding period with important implications for population demography. The purpose of this dataset is to collate and standardise important energetic and demographic parameters to underpin energetic, behavioural and demographic modelling analyses for key seabird species. Data primarily correspond to measurements of seabirds breeding in the UK. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/07b1105a-4a14-47e3-b491-9af59be90aff

Tags: Atlantic puffin, BMR, Black-legged kittiwake, Common guillemot, Habitats and Biotopes, Seabirds, Species Distribution, UK, biometrics, chick provisioning, chick rearing, digestive assimilation efficiency, energetic costs, energetics, flying, foraging, prey energy density, razorbill, resting, time activity budgets, tissue energy density, warming food
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
Evaluation interviews on flood resilience improvement from communities in the Katakwi District, Uganda, 2020

This dataset contains responses to a set of evaluation questions on flood resilience improvement within communities in the Katakwi District, Uganda. This data were created as part of the NIMFRU project (National-Scale Impact Based Forecasting of Flood Risk in Uganda) and consists of 21 semi-structured interviews. These have been completed by community members from the project target communities of Anyangabella, Agule and Kaikamosing which are all found in the Katakwi district. Five of the interviews were completed by local district officers. The data were collected in December 2020. These data were collected to understand how communities resilience had changed as a result of the NIMFRU project. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/d5043ca4-5451-42f1-ae38-69e084bfad80

Tags: Interviews, Uganda
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
Fitness costs and benefits of intergroup interactions in banded mongooses in Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda, 2000-2019

This is a dataset on mortality costs and reproductive success from intergroup conflict in banded mongooses, collected from a wild population of banded mongooses on the Mweya Peninsula, Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda between 2000-2019. We observed naturally occurring, aggressive interactions between social groups and recorded data on individual mortality occurring during and as a result of fighting. We used long term observations of reproductive events to determine individual reproductive success, measured as the total number of offspring assigned to each individual over the lifetime, and the number of offspring born to each individual from extra-group mating. We recorded data on oestrus events in social groups to determine when focal and rival groups were in oestrus simultaneously, and whether they were involved in an intergroup interaction with each other. These data were collected to examine the fitness costs and benefits of intergroup conflict. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/a1f3d7e5-934f-4b12-ba7c-c372ce9df2c6

Tags: Intergroup conflict, Mweya Peninsula, aggression, banded mongoose, behavioural ecology, collective violence, social evolution
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
Very high resolution derived land cover/use classifications for the Corridor Ankeniheny-Zahamena (CAZ), Madagascar

The products capture current land use/cover for four areas of interest in Corridor Ankeniheny Zahamena (CAZ) generated based on very high resolution imagery (SPOT 6). Field-based training and validation data were used and supervised classifications created using Random Forest classifier. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/ce535cef-842e-4875-ad80-26760900cec0

Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
Functional traits of the tallest tropical tree species in the Tumucumaque Mountains National Park, Brazil, 2024

[This dataset is embargoed until September 30, 2027]. This dataset comprises 14 traits related to plant hydraulic function collected on 16 Dinizia Excelsa trees ranging from 19.7-74 m tall in the Parque Nacional Montanhas de Tumucumaque, Northeast Amazon, Brazil. Traits were always measured in a top canopy position and when crown depth allowed along a lower and a branch. These data were all collected following standardised methodologies for each trait sampled and they were all collected during one field campaign which took place during November 2024. The aim of this data set was to test whether tree height alters the water transport system of trees to make them more vulnerable to the impacts of drought. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/1dba26ab-1aa8-45f1-baab-5bdf25a1c7a0

Tags: Amazon Rainforest, Dinizia excelsa, Drought response, Hydraulic system, Plant Traits
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
Water quality of urban surface freshwater in Kolkata, India, June 2018 to December 2019

This dataset comprises field sensor physicochemical and optical/fluorescence measurements, as well as laboratory microbiological and chemical analysis, for urban surface water samples. Samples were collected at different locations throughout the urban area of Kolkata, with the latitude and longitude of all sample location provided within the spreadsheets. Samples/data were collected across three separate field surveys undertaken in June 2018 (file 1), March 2019 (file 2) and December 2019 (file 3). This dataset forms a case study of the water quality of three different types of urban surface freshwaters within the city of Kolkata, India. This case study was created to deploy a prototype multichannel fluorimeter and assess its ability to identify waters with a high bacterial load and biological contamination events through the use of Peak T fluorescence. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/9bc3dce7-7c2b-49dd-9b76-819267d7a352

Tags: Aquatic, Dissolved organic matter, E. Coli, Flourescent, Fluorescence, Physioochemical , River Ganges, Sensing, in-situ sensing , real-time monitoring
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
Distribution of Anopheles stephensi and other mosquito species in India, 2022

This dataset contains locations and species of mosquitoes collected during fieldwork in India in 2022. Mosquito adults and larvae were collected from 4 locations: Bangalore, Udaipur, Delhi and Mumbai. The focus was on collecting Anopheles mosquitoes, but other species were also collected. Anopheles mosquitoes transmit malaria, so changes in their distribution raises concern for the spread of this disease. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/ac5ecc99-b1b9-443a-b0b1-5059b85bc30f

Tags: India, Species Distribution, mosquito
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
Topsoil particle size distribution, electrical conductivity, calcite and total carbon from the Countryside Survey of Great Britain for 2018-2023, and aggregate information for 2019

This dataset contains information on the soil particle size distribution, electrical conductivity, total carbon, and inorganic carbon in the form of CaCO3 for the topsoil (0-15cm) from the Countryside Survey monitoring programme spanning the years 2018 to 2023. This period includes the five years, along with the pilot year, required to finalize the sampling across the geography of Great Britain. Additionally, it includes the aggregate size distribution and stability for the CS2019. UKCEH Countryside Survey is the longest integrated national monitoring programme of the countryside for Great Britain, which began in 1978. The results provide a unique insight into how our plants, soil, woodlands and small water bodies have changed over time. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/6893097f-f504-4b77-96c8-8daa5da6a09d

Tags: Environmental Monitoring Facilities, aggregate size distribution, particle size distribution
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
Palaeolimnological data from 5 Arctic lakes in Greenland, Alaska and Norway [Lakes and Arctic Carbon]

This dataset contains palaeolimnological data from sediment cores taken from five Arctic lakes. Two lakes located in Alaska were cored in July 2013, one lake located in Greenland was cored in April 2013, and two lakes located in Norway were cored in March 2014. The data includes macrofossil, chironomids and Cladocera analysis at 2 cm resolution; and loss on ignition, diatoms, biogenic silica, nitrogen and carbon isotopes, algal photosynthetic pigments and pollen analyses at 1 cm resolution. All cores were subject to X-Ray Fluorescence scanning analysis at 200 or 400 micrometer resolution before subsampling. The data were collected as part of the Lakes and Arctic Carbon project, funded under NERC's Arctic Research Programme. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/e48aa7ca-e8af-482a-bebd-45291de9584f

Tags: Arctic, Chironomids, Cladocerans, Environmental Monitoring Facilities, X-Ray Fluorescence, biogenic silica, carbon-13, macrofossils, nitrogen-15, photosynthetic pigments
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
Farm scale evaluations of herbicide tolerant genetically modified crops - maize

This dataset consists of a range of ecological measurements collected from a set of arable fields, each sown with a combination of genetically modified and conventional maize crops. Measurements include species counts in the following areas: weed seedbank, vegetation in the crop, field edge vegetation, invertebrates. The data were collected as part of the Farm Scale Evaluations (FSEs), a four-year programme of research by independent researchers aimed at studying the effect that the management practices associated with Genetically Modified Herbicide Tolerant (GMHT) crops might have on farmland wildlife, when compared with weed control used with non-GM crops. Data were collected by a consortium of: the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology (now the Centre for Ecology &Hydrology), the Institute of Arable Crops Research (now Rothamsted Research) and the Scottish Crop Research Institute (now the James Hutton Institute). Data were collected for four crops overall (Beet, Maize, Spring-sown Oilseed Rape and Winter-sown oilseed Rape). Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/ca6752ed-3a22-4790-a86d-afadaedda082

Tags: Britain, Environmental Monitoring Facilities, IACR, ITE, JHI, Rothamsted Research, SCRI, The Institute of Arable Crops Research, The Institute of Terrestrial Ecology, The James Hutton Institute, The Scottish Crop Research Institute, agro-ecology, arable, arable farming, crops, environmental impact, functional groups, genetically modified herbicide-tolerant crops, invertebrates, maize, oilseed rape, seedbank, soil, sugar beet, trophic interactions, vegetation, weeds
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
UK Environmental Change Network (ECN) bat data: 1993-2015

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, Natural Environment Research Council, Northern Ireland Environment Agency, Scottish Environment Protection Agency, Scottish Government and Scottish Natural Heritage. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/2588ee91-6cbd-4888-86fc-81858d1bf085

Tags: Alice Holt, BA, Bat species, Drayton, Environmental Change Network, Environmental Monitoring Facilities, Glensaugh, Hillsborough, ILTER, LTER, North Wyke, Rothamsted, Sourhope, Wytham, Yr Wyddfa - Snowdon
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
Flood impact matrices to assess flood resilience in Katakwi communities, Uganda, 2020

This data were created as part of the NIMFRU project and consists of 21 flood matrices. These have been completed by community members from the project target communities of Anyangabella, Agule and Kaikamosing which are all found in the Katakwi district. Five of the matrices were completed by local district officers. The data were collected in December 2020. These data were collected to understand how communities resilience had changed as a result of the NIMFRU project. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/463b2bcc-731a-42af-ba69-1662aa21f1bf

Tags: Flooding, Uganda
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
Non-agricultural pollution to rivers in Scotland

Estimates of annual loads of phosphorus, sediment, nitrogen and faecal coliform from non-agricultural sources to rivers in Scotland, reported at Water Framework Directive (WFD) catchment scale. The sources of pollutants include: urban, woodland, montane areas, river bank erosion, septic tanks and sewage treatment works. Loads are estimated based upon available data (e.g. septic tank licences) and modelling (bank erosion). The values specify phosphorous, nitrogen or sediment losses in kilograms per year and faecal coliform in 10^6 colony forming units (cfu) per year. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/eb73ca31-7eb9-479c-96be-6063e29c8a7f

Tags: Environmental Monitoring Facilities
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
Soil treatment data from Sourhope field experiment site, Scotland, 1999-2002 [NERC Soil Biodiversity Programme]

This data set details the range of treatments applied to experimental plots at a field site at Sourhope, Scotland, between 1999 and 2004. The data can be used in conjunction with other experimental data sets from the NERC Soil Biodiversity Thematic Programme site as an explanatory variable. The NERC Soil Biodiversity Thematic Programme was established in 1999 and was centred upon the intensive study of a large field experiment located at the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute (now the James Hutton Institute) farm at Sourhope in the Scottish Borders (Grid reference: NT8545019630). During the experiment, the site was monitored to assess changes in above-ground biomass production (productivity), species composition and relative abundance (diversity). Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/a83ca49d-a78d-4c64-a646-68e44438a2b6

Tags: Environmental Monitoring Facilities, NERC Soil Biodiversity Programme, Sourhope
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
Bare sand, wind speed, aspect and slope at four English and Welsh coastal sand dunes, 2014-2016

This data contains values of bare sand area, modelled wind speed, aspect and slope at a 2.5 m spatial resolution for four UK coastal dune fields, Abberfraw (Wales), Ainsdale (England), Morfa Dyffryn (Wales), Penhale (England). Data is stored as a .csv file. Data is available for 620,756.25 m2 of dune at Abberfraw, 550,962.5 m2 of dune at Ainsdale, 1,797,756.25 m2 of dune at Morfa Dyffryn and 2,275,056.25 m2 of dune at Penhale. All values were calculated from aerial imagery and digital terrain models collected between 2014 and 2016. For each location, areas of bare sand were mapped in QGIS using the semi-automatic classification plugin (SCP) and the minimum distance algorithm on true-colour RGB images. The slope and aspect of the dune surface at each site was calculated in QGIS from digital terrain models. Wind speed at 0.4 m above the surface of the digital terrain model at each site was calculated using a steady state computational fluid dynamics (CFD). Data was collected to statistically test the relationship between bare sand and three abiotic physical factors on coastal dunes (wind speed, dune slope and dune slope aspect). Vertical aerial imagery was sourced from EDINA Aerial Digimap Service and digital terrain models from EDINA LIDAR Digimap Service. Wind speed data was generated and interpreted by Dr Thomas Smyth (University of Huddersfield). Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/972599af-0cc3-4e0e-a4dc-2fab7a6dfc85

Tags: Land Use
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
Woody linear features framework, Great Britain v.1.0

A modelled dataset derived from a range of national datasets, describing the distribution of woody linear feature boundaries in Great Britain. The dataset presents linear features which have a high likelihood of being a woody linear feature. The dataset was created by a predictive model developed at the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Lancaster in 2016. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/d7da6cb9-104b-4dbc-b709-c1f7ba94fb16

Tags: Land Cover, hedgerows, linear features
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
Land Cover Map 2007 (1km dominant aggregate class, GB) v1.2

This dataset consists of a 1km resolution raster version of the Land Cover Map 2007 for Great Britain. Each 1km pixel represents the dominant aggregate class across the 1km area. The aggregate classes are aggregations of the target classes, broadly representing Broad Habitats (see below). The dataset is part of a series of data products produced by the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology known as LCM2007. LCM2007 is a parcel-based thematic classification of satellite image data covering the entire United Kingdom. The map updates and upgrades the Land Cover Map of Great Britain (LCMGB) 1990 and LCM2000. Like the earlier 1990 and 2000 products, LCM2007 is derived from a computer classification of satellite scenes obtained mainly from Landsat, IRS and SPOT sensors and also incorporates information derived from other ancillary datasets. LCM2007 was classified using a nomenclature corresponding to the Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC) Broad Habitats, which encompasses the entire range of UK habitats. In addition, it recorded further detail where possible. The series of LCM2007 products includes vector and raster formats, with a number of different versions containing varying levels of detail and at different spatial resolutions. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/c3723adb-1a8c-4b57-958b-1d610d2c37fe

Tags: Great Britain, Land Cover
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre
Morphology phenotype data of 88 types of galls induced on oak trees by cynipid gallwasps from 6 sites in Hungary, 2000-2003

These data consist of quantitative and categorical scores for phenotypic attributes of 88 types of galls induced on oak trees (Quercus spp.) by cynipid gallwasps (Hymenoptera: Cynipidae: Cynipini). The recorded variables focus on attributes such as hardness, presence of surface spines or coatings of sticky resin, each of which are thought to contribute to protection of the gall inhabitants form attack by natural enemies such as parasitoid wasps and birds. Cynipid galls have separate sexual and asexual generation galls, each with different phenotypes. The dataset comprises values for 31 sexual generation galls and 58 asexual generation galls of a total of 69 cynipid species. The biological rationale for regarding these phenotypic traits as defences is explained in Bailey et al (2009). The purpose of these data is to include them as explanatory variables in statistical analyses that seek to quantify the effects of gall traits on the composition and abundance of parasitoid natural enemies in cynipid gall communities. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/bc10f720-2bb6-4ff4-ad63-257663fd41a3

Tags: Cynipidae, Fagaceae, Habitats and Biotopes, Hungary, extended phenotype, parasitoid
Organization: Environmental Information Data Centre