Published November 1, 2025 | Version v1
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European Bee and Hovefly Database (EBHD)

Authors/Creators

  • 1. ROR icon University of Mons
  • 2. ROR icon École Nationale d'Agriculture de Meknès

Description

This publication includes:
(i) Two occurrence databases of bees and hoverflies in “Pollinator Core” template, saved as RDS and CSV files. The databases are a result of compiled datasets from diverse sources, including taxonomists, national experts, published data, museum collections, literature, and aggregated datasets from previous European projects. They comprise more than 4,34 million and 1,04 million records for wild bees and hoverflies, respectively. The databases cover 97% of the European bee fauna  and 97% of the European hoverfly fauna.


(ii) Metadata files:
-Metadata 1: information about the datasets for bees.
-Metadata 2: a list of explored museums and private collections, and the references reviewed to acquire occurrence data.
-Metadata 3: a detailed description of the fields for both databases.
-Metadata 4: a detailed description of the calculations used in FileMakerPro to prepare and clean the hoverfly database.
-Metadata 5: the data used to produce figures 4 and 5.
-Metadata 6: the list of the dataset sources of the Estonian data (GBIF_Estonia dataset) retrieved from GBIF.

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Additional titles

Subtitle (English)
Sptio-temporal distribution of European bees and hoverflies