Agroforestry Understorey Invertebrate and Yield Data from Nottinghamshire 2020

Nottinghamshire, UK data compares invertebrate abundance, pest damage, and yields under mown versus unmown flowering understorey treatments in an apple-arable agroforestry system. Collected from five experimental blocks between April and September 2020 by Tom Staton (University of Reading). The dataset includes measurements from pitfall traps, sticky traps, visual tree searches, flower visitation counts, and yield samples.

Use Cases

• Analyze pest damage to apples across understorey management treatments to assess natural pest control efficacy.
• Model pollinator flower visitation counts as a function of understorey treatment to quantify pollination service.
• Compare apple fruit yield and quality metrics between mown and unmown understorey blocks.
• Correlate invertebrate abundance from pitfall and sticky traps with grain yield samples for ecosystem service analysis.

Strengths

• Data collected from five replicated experimental blocks, enabling treatment comparisons.
• Includes multiple collection methods: pitfall traps, sticky traps, visual searches, visitation counts, and yield metrics.
• Covers a full growing season from April to September 2020.

Limitations

• Sample size is limited to a single site and year (2020), reducing generalizability.
• Three specific pitfall trap samples are noted as damaged and excluded, creating minor data gaps.
• Geographic scope is restricted to one agroforestry site in Nottinghamshire, UK.

Provenance

Source

Environmental Information Data Centre

Collection Method

Data collected via pitfall traps, sticky traps, visual tree searches, flower visitation counts, and yield sampling.

Time Range

April to September 2020

Freshness

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Geography

Screveton, Nottinghamshire, United Kingdom