Model output data from: Solar farms as potential future refuges for bumblebees

Solar farms offer an opportunity for habitat creation for wildlife, including insect pollinators, potentially simultaneously contributing to both low-carbon energy and nature recovery. However, it is unknown whether co-benefits would persist under future land use change given that habitat value is context dependent. For the 1,042 operational solar farms in Great Britain, we predict their ability to support bumblebee populations (both inside and outside the solar farm) under three different socio-economic futures. These futures represent alternative 1 km scale landcover projections for the year 2050 with accompanying narratives. We downscale these to 10 m resolution, spatially allocating crop rotations, agri-environment interventions, and other habitat features consistent with the scenario narratives, to realistically represent fine-scale landscape elements of relevance to bumblebee populations. We then input these detailed maps into a sophisticated process-based model (poll4pop) th..., , # Model output data from: Solar farms as potential future refuges for bumblebees

Dataset DOI: [10.5061/dryad.8cz8w9h5g](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.8cz8w9h5g)

## Description of the data and file structure

This dataset contains raw poll4pop model output data, including the number of predicted bumblebee nests, foraging bumblebees and new bumblebee queens inside each solar farm in Great Britain, surrounding foraging zone (0-500 m from the solar farm boundary) and wider landscape (10 km) under four land use change scenarios (present day, SSP1, SSP2 and SSP5) and three solar farm management scenarios (baseline, turf grass and meadow margins).
### Files and variables

Below, details about each column in the Excel spreadsheet are provided:

**land_use**_**scenario** - the land use scenario under which the model was run, including the present day and three future land use scenarios for 2050 based on the UK-RCP-SSPs, where SSP1 represents Sustainability, SSP2 represents Middle of the Road a...,