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CHAPTER 5 3.2.6 3.2.6 Pantheon (125)

Pantheon is an online tool to analyse invertebrate species samples. This analytical tool was developed by Natural England and
the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology to assist invertebrate nature conservation in England – see Heaver et al. (2017).

Pantheon is an online tool to analyse invertebrate species samples.

The lists of invertebrates (‘samples’) are imported into Pantheon aids in establishing a shared terminology for
Pantheon, which matches the species to the preferred name describing invertebrate interest which will greatly augment
in the UK Species Inventory before analysing the sample, invertebrate nature conservation.
attaching to them associated habitats and resources,
assemblage types – adapted from the Invertebrate Species- To date, more than 12,000 species have been typed and
habitat Information System (ISIS; Webb and Lott 2006) (126) included in Pantheon, but this is about a quarter of the total
– together with habitat fidelity scores and other information. macroinvertebrate fauna (estimated at 37,000). It remains
The analysis then displays much of this data as numerical limited to those taxa and families where there is enough
scores. This information can be used to determine site ecological information to give a fair level of coding accuracy.
quality by revealing whether the species list is indicative These include species such as beetles, flies, true bugs,
of good quality habitat, to inform on species ecology, and moths, bees and many more. Pantheon focuses on species
to assist in management decisions by revealing the key primarily found in England.
ecological resources.

http://www.brc.ac.uk/pantheon/ For more information contact pantheon@ceh.ac.uk

Planorbis albus

Gammarus pulex

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