Dragonfly records from the British Dragonfly Society's Dragonfly Recording Network for the period up to 2014

British Dragonfly Society Recording Scheme

Description

Dragonfly and damselfly records collected and collated by the Dragonfly Recording Network (DRN), a part of the British Dragonfly Society, for the period 1807-2014. This dataset incorporates the previous DRN and BRC dragonfly datasets on the Gateway.

Geographic Description

Coverage includes all regions of Britain submitted to the national coordinator of the DRN by September 2014. Records from the Channel Islands and Ireland (North and South) are not currently included. Records are provided at the recorded precision, usually 1km or 100m grid references; some are only at 10km or 2km precision.

Purpose

Scientific research.

Data quality

Prior to the publication of the Atlas of Dragonflies in Britain and Ireland in May 2014 the dataset was checked using NBN Record Cleaner and as a result some erroneous grid references have been corrected.

Methods

The records include observations on all species, dragonflies and damselflies records, made by volunteers and submitted to the Dragonfly Recording Network. Also included are those collated by the record centres, Bristol Regional Environmental Records Centre, Kent and Medway Bioloigical Records Centre, Herefordshire Biological Records Centre, Powys and BBNP Biodiversity Information Centre, Cumbria Biodiversity Data Centre and also Glasgow Museum. The datasets from the first two record centres represent duplicate datasets on the NBN Gateway. The records include breeding and abundance information, formatted to those used within the Dragonfly Recording Network.

Citation

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Rights

CC-BY

Digitised records

Metadata last updated on 2018-05-08 11:43:36.0