SHARK - National environmental monitoring of Grey seal in Sweden since 1989

Sampling event
Latest version published by The Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute on Jul 8, 2024 The Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute

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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.

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 seals is performed by counting seals from land, ship or 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

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 28,580 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)
28580
ExtendedMeasurementOrFact 
72914
Occurrence 
14307

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 (2022). SHARK - National environmental monitoring of Grey seal in Sweden since 1989

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: 1397d0b8-3750-439c-a93f-d6fb71716d37.  The Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Sweden.

Keywords

event; Samplingevent

Contacts

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

Geographic Coverage

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

Bounding Coordinates South West [55.366, 10.827], North East [65.727, 24.333]

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 1989-01-01 / 2020-06-08

Sampling Methods

No Description available

Method step description:

  1. Data is collected by counting seals from land, ship or airplane.

Additional Metadata

Alternative Identifiers 1397d0b8-3750-439c-a93f-d6fb71716d37
https://www.gbif.se/ipt/resource?r=smhi-greyseal-nat