SHARK - National marine environmental monitoring of Seal pathology in Sweden

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.

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

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

Taxonomic Coverage

No Description available

Temporal Coverage

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

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