Data on moths from automatically operating light traps in Denmark

Per Stadel Nielsen1, Isabel Calabuig2

1 Lepidopterological Society, Denmark, Skovskellet 35A, 2840, Holte, Denmark; 2 Danish Biodiversity Information Facility (DanBIF), Natural History Museum of Denmark, Universitetsparken 15, 2100, Copenhagen, Denmark

Corresponding author(s): Per Stadel Nielsen (psn@lepidoptera.dk)

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Citation: Combination of authors, year of data paper publication (in parentheses), Title, Journal Name, Volume, Issue number (in parentheses), and doi of the data paper.

Resource Citation

Stadel Nielsen P (2012): Data on moths from automatically operating light traps in Denmark. v5.4. Lepidopterological Society, Denmark. Dataset/Occurrence. http://danbif.au.dk/ipt/resource?r=ds53&v=5.4

Abstract

Data obtained from automatically operating light traps run in Denmark during the years 1994 to 2006. The dataset consists of about 114.000 records of moths collected during 1.218 trap-years and 98.344 trap-nights. A report (in Danish) with analyses and trend results based on the data, may be found at http://www.lepidoptera.dk/lysfaeldedata.htm#abs - which also includes an abstract in English

Keywords: Occurrence, Observation, Light traps, Moths, Lepidoptera, Denmark

Data published through GBIF: http://danbif.au.dk/ipt/resource?r=ds53

Taxonomic coverage

Taxonomic ranks
Order: Lepidoptera

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Denmark DK Europe
Coordinates: 54°29'24''N and 57°55'12''N Latitude; 7°34'48''E and 15°26'60''E Longitude 

Temporal coverage: October 1, 1994 - September 9, 2006

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Data on moths from automatically operating light traps in Denmark
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: http://danbif.au.dk/ipt/archive.do?r=ds53
Publication date of data: 2018-08-23
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2012-11-07
Hierarchy level: Dataset