Butterfly structural complexity and community data 2022-2023

These data are a combination of butterfly counts in their raw form by species also, summarised as abundances, richness and Simpson diversity index values. It also includes some site-specific data on where the surveys took place, including patch size and canopy structural complexity.

Data were collected following the method outlined by Neal, Araya, and Wheeler (2024) over an 8-week period in 2022, as presented in that paper, and during an additional 16-week period in 2023, which included repeat surveys at the original 10 sites and data collection at 12 additional sites.

Reference

Neal, W., Araya, Y. and Wheeler, P.M. (2024) ‘Influence of canopy structural complexity on urban woodland butterfly species richness’, Journal of Insect Conservation, pp. 1–12. Available at: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10841-024-00594-z.