Moth Behavioural Responses to Lighting Environments, Penryn UK, March-October 2024

March to October 2024 fieldwork captured and released moths in different lighting environments around the University of Exeter's Penryn campus. The dataset records the time to move, type of movement, and direction of movement for each release to gauge the impact of lighting variation. The work was carried out by Maisy Inston, Charlie Rayner, and Jon Bennie.

Use Cases

• Modeling moth movement patterns based on recorded time to move and direction.
• Analyzing the impact of artificial lighting on insect ecology based on behavioral responses in variable environments.
• Training classifiers for movement type based on the recorded categorical data.
• Conducting comparative studies on wildlife behavior under different anthropogenic light conditions.

Strengths

• Data is derived from controlled field experiments conducted over an 8-month period from March to October 2024.
• Includes specific behavioral metrics: time to move, movement type, and movement direction.
• Has a persistent identifier (DOI) for citation and access to full details.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.

Provenance

Source

Environmental Information Data Centre

Collection Method

Fieldwork experiments involving capture, release, and observation of moths.

Time Range

March to October 2024

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-30 12:07:39.231775

Geography

Penryn, Cornwall, UK (University of Exeter's Penryn campus)