SHARK - National marine environmental monitoring of Harbour porpoise in Sweden

Sampling event
Latest version published by The Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute on May 6, 2024 The Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute

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Description

The national monitoring program is financed by the Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management.

Monitoring is performed by the Swedish Museum of Natural History. Data are stored in the Swedish Ocean Archive (SHARK) by the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI).

Information about the program and the methods are available in Swedish at the website of Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management, https://www.havochvatten.se/overvakning-och-uppfoljning/miljoovervakning/marin-miljoovervakning/tumlare.html

Data Records

The data in this sampling event resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 40,900 records.

2 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.

Event (core)
40900
ExtendedMeasurementOrFact 
205569
Occurrence 
40865

This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.

Versions

The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.

How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Swedish Museum of Natural History, Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management and Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (2024). SHARK - National marine environmental monitoring of Harbour porpoise in Sweden

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is The Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute. To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: fbe080fc-e0c3-4b2c-a6d0-2c017503a3d3.  The Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Sweden.

Keywords

Samplingevent; Harbour porpoise; Samplingevent

Contacts

SHARK SMHI
  • Point Of Contact
Swedish Meterological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI)
SHARK SMHI
  • Point Of Contact
  • Data manager
Swedish Meterological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI)

Geographic Coverage

Data are collected within the following marine ecoregions: http://marineregions.org/mrgid/2401, http://marineregions.org/mrgid/2374, http://marineregions.org/mrgid/2379

Bounding Coordinates South West [55.763, 11.59], North East [62.21, 18.081]

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 2015-10-01 / 2023-10-02

Sampling Methods

Information about the program and the methods are available in Swedish at the website of Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management, https://www.havochvatten.se/overvakning-och-uppfoljning/miljoovervakning/marin-miljoovervakning/tumlare.html

Study Extent Monitoring program

Method step description:

  1. Data is collected using acoustic click detectors that record the click signals of Harbour porpoises. Detectors are deployed during a time period, logging continously.

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers fbe080fc-e0c3-4b2c-a6d0-2c017503a3d3
https://www.gbif.se/ipt/resource?r=shark-harbour-porpoise-nat