SHARK - National marine environmental monitoring of Seal pathology in Sweden

Sampling event
Latest version published by The Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute on May 7, 2024 The Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute
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Publication date:
7 May 2024
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CC0 1.0

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Description

The national monitoring program was initiated by the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency and is now financed by the Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management.

Monitoring is performed by the Swedish Museum of Natural History. Data is stored in the Swedish archive for oceanographic data (SHARK) database, curated by SMHI.

Information about the program and the methods are available in Swedish at the website of the Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management https://www.havochvatten.se/vagledning-foreskrifter-och-lagar/vagledningar/ovriga-vagledningar/overvakningsmanualer-for-miljoovervakning/overvakningsmanualer/patologi-hos-grasal-vikaresal-och-knubbsal.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 4,524 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)
4524
ExtendedMeasurementOrFact 
36644
Occurrence 
2910

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, Swedish Environmental Protection Agency and Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (2024). SHARK - National marine environmental monitoring of Seal pathology 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: 49e471e9-5ef8-4eb7-a2b0-5d40cc3f6ee4.  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; Seal pathology

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 [55.137, 10.594], North East [65.907, 24.177]

Taxonomic Coverage

No Description available

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Mammalia
Order Carnivora
Family Phocidae

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 2008-10-01 / 2023-10-02

Sampling Methods

Information about the program and the methods are available in Swedish at the website of the Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management https://www.havochvatten.se/vagledning-foreskrifter-och-lagar/vagledningar/ovriga-vagledningar/overvakningsmanualer-for-miljoovervakning/overvakningsmanualer/patologi-hos-grasal-vikaresal-och-knubbsal.html

Study Extent Monitoring program

Method step description:

  1. Seal pathology using necropsy and histopathological findings of dead seals has been monitored in and around Swedish coasts since 2008.
  2. This monitoring program is focused toward determining the health status of seal populations via autopsies of animals that are collected and sent to the Swedish Museum of Natural History. In addition, the program is also aimed for finding and measuring potentially harmful substances in biota.
  3. Sampling provides information to describe the cause of death among seals.

Additional Metadata