Annual estimates of occupancy for bryophytes, lichens and invertebrates in the UK, 1970-2015.

ABSTRACT: Here, we determine annual estimates of occupancy and species trends for 5,293 UK bryophytes, lichens, and invertebrates, providing national scale information on UK biodiversity change for 31 taxonomic groups for the time period 1970 to 2015. The dataset was produced through the application of a Bayesian occupancy modelling framework to species occurrence records supplied by 29 national recording schemes or societies (n = 24,118,549 records). In the UK, annual measures of species status from fine scale data (e.g. 1 × 1 km) had previously been limited to a few taxa for which structured monitoring data are available, mainly birds, butterflies, bats and a subset of moth species. By using an occupancy modelling framework designed for use with relatively low recording intensity data, we have bee

SUBMITTER: Outhwaite CL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6831696 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature