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The Database

The BugsCEP package consists of two main files:
- BugsCEP which contains the forms, queries and code that make up the user interface
- Bugsdata which contains almost all of the data.
The latter is a relational database built in MS Access 2000, with about 43 tables which contain the data enumerated below.

The setup program will also install a number of support files if necessary, including those necessary to run an Access database on a PC wihtout the full software installed.

The vast majority of data has been input by Paul Buckland.

Geographical scope


Data (at time of writing - constantly increasing)

Species related

  • 5790 Taxa
  • 2601 Synonyms
  • 500 Records of species association
  • 1702 UK RDB rarity records
  • 5107 Species attribute records(mainly size data
Bibliographic
  • 3146 References

Fossil record and other sample based

  • 678 Sites
  • 544 abundance datasets/countsheets
  • 67294 Fossil record entries (which make up the 544 countsheets)
  • 3339 Recorded datesof which: 509 radiometric; 2440 period; 390 calendar

Climate and Ecology

  • 436 MCR thermal envelopes
  • 22595 Ecology text excerpts
  • 21929 Distribution text excerpts
  • 8317 BugsEcoCode assignments
  • 11152 Koch Ecology Code assignments
  • 9707 UK Monthly activity records

Other

  • 216 Identification keys (by Peter Skidmore)
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Last edited:
October 15, 2006