SHARK - Regional marine environmental monitoring and monitoring projects of Epibenthos in Sweden since 1994

Sampling event
Latest version published by The Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute on Jun 25, 2024 The Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute

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Description

The monitoring is financed by the Swedish county administration boards, Swedish municipalities and Swedish coalitions of water conservation.

Recipient control data financed by companies are also included. The data is stored in the database SHARK, hosted and maintained by the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute.

The Epibenthos monitoring programs and projects studies hard and soft bottoms from the surface down to 10-20 meters.

Data is collected in transects or squares with help of divers.

Species abundances are determined directly by the divers or photographs/video are taken and analyzed later.

Field notes are in Swedish.

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/organisation-och-programomraden/miljoovervakningens-programomrade-kust-och-hav/delprogram-vegetationskladda-bottnar.html, https://www.havochvatten.se/vagledning-foreskrifter-och-lagar/vagledningar/ovriga-vagledningar/undersokningstyper-for-miljoovervakning/undersokningstyper/vegetationskladda-bottnar-ostkust.html,https://www.havochvatten.se/vagledning-foreskrifter-och-lagar/vagledningar/ovriga-vagledningar/undersokningstyper-for-miljoovervakning/undersokningstyper/vegetationskladda-bottnar-vastkust.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 78,499 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)
78499
ExtendedMeasurementOrFact 
1493590
Occurrence 
338824

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 county administration boards, Swedish municipalities, Swedish coalitions of water conservation, Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute et.al. (2023). SHARK - Regional marine environmental monitoring and monitoring projects of Epibenthos in Sweden since 1994.

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: a2d59875-d379-4753-b4f7-3c19002080a9.  The Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Sweden.

Keywords

Sampling event; Samplingevent

Contacts

SHARK
  • Metadata Provider
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
  • Data manager
Swedish Meterological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI)
SE

Geographic Coverage

Data collected within the following marine ecoregions using coordinate system WGS84: http://marineregions.org/mrgid/2401, http://marineregions.org/mrgid/2374, http://marineregions.org/mrgid/2379

Bounding Coordinates South West [55.213, 10.372], North East [65.873, 24.153]

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 1995-09-04 / 2022-10-13

Sampling Methods

The epibenthos monitoring programs studies hard and soft bottoms from the surface down to 10-20 meters.

Study Extent Monitoring program

Method step description:

  1. 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/organisation-och-programomraden/miljoovervakningens-programomrade-kust-och-hav/delprogram-vegetationskladda-bottnar.html, https://www.havochvatten.se/vagledning-foreskrifter-och-lagar/vagledningar/ovriga-vagledningar/undersokningstyper-for-miljoovervakning/undersokningstyper/vegetationskladda-bottnar-ostkust.html,https://www.havochvatten.se/vagledning-foreskrifter-och-lagar/vagledningar/ovriga-vagledningar/undersokningstyper-for-miljoovervakning/undersokningstyper/vegetationskladda-bottnar-vastkust.html

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers a2d59875-d379-4753-b4f7-3c19002080a9
https://www.gbif.se/ipt/resource?r=smhi-epibenthos-reg