IMIS

SHARK - National Ringed seal monitoring in Sweden since 1995

Citation

Swedish Museum of Natural History, Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management, Swedish Environmental Protection Agency and Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (2018). SHARK - National Ringed seal monitoring in Sweden since 1995. https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/2458

Contact: Sundqvist, Lisa

Access data

Archived data

Also accessible through:

http://sharkdata.se/datasets/?page=1&per_page=10&datatype=RingedSeal

Availability:

This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Description

Data from Swedish environmental monitoring of abundance of Ringed seal. Swedish monitoring of Ringed seals started in 1995. The monitoring program was initiated by the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency and later the Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management took over the responsibility and financing of the program. The monitoring is performed by the Swedish Museum of Natural History. Data is stored in the database SHARK, hosted and maintained by the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute. Monitoring of ringed seal is performed by counting seals in transects from airplane. More information is available in Swedish at https://www.havochvatten.se/hav/samordning--fakta/miljoovervakning/miljoovervakningens-programomrade-kust-och-hav/delprogram-sal-och-havsorn.html

Lineage

Prior to publication data undergo quality control checked which are described in https://github.com/EMODnet/EMODnetBiocheck?tab=readme-ov-file#understanding-the-output

Scope

Themes:

Biology > Mammals

Keywords:

Marine/Coastal, Air monitoring, Bio-geographical regions, Biota, Environment, Geoscientific Information, Habitats and biotopes, Long-term monitoring, Marine mammals, Metadata non conformant, Metadata not evaluated, No limitations to public access, Oceans, Sea regions, Seals (animals), Top predators, WGS84 (EPSG:4326), XYZ ASCII, ANE: Baltic Sea, Gulf of Bothnia, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, Halichoerus grypus (Fabricius, 1791), Pusa hispida (Schreber, 1775)

Geographical coverage

ANE: Baltic Sea, Gulf of Bothnia [Marine Regions]

EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations

Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: 20,7555; MinLat: 63,1172 - MaxLong: 25,1954; MaxLat: 65,775 [WGS84]

Temporal coverage

From 1995 on [In Progress]

1996

1998 - 2004

Taxonomic coverage

Halichoerus grypus (Fabricius, 1791) [WoRMS]

Pusa hispida (Schreber, 1775) [WoRMS]

Parameters

Abundance of biological entity specified elsewhere per unit area of the bed [BODC]
Count (in assayed sample) of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC]

Contributors

Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI), more, data creator

Sundqvist, Lisa

Swedish Museum of Natural History (NRM), more, data creator

Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management, more, data creator

Swedish Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA), more, data creator

Related datasets

Parent dataset:

SHARK: Marine biological data of Sweden, more

Published in:

EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more

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