SHARK - National environmental monitoring of Harbour seal in Sweden since 1988
Citation
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 Harbour seal in Sweden since 1988. https://doi.org/10.15468/yq77dh
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 To the extent possible under law, the person who associated CC0 with this dataset has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this dataset.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 Lineage
Prior to publication data undergo quality control checked which are described in https://github.com/EMODnet/EMODnetBiocheck?tab=readme-ov-file#understanding-the-output Scope Themes: Biology > Mammals Keywords: Marine/Coastal, aeroplane, Air monitoring, Bio-geographical regions, Biota, Environment, Geoscientific Information, Habitats and biotopes, land or seafloor, Long-term monitoring, Metadata non conformant, Metadata not evaluated, No limitations to public access, Oceans, Sea regions, ship, Top predators, WGS84 (EPSG:4326), XYZ ASCII, ANE, Baltic, Baltic Proper, ANE, Kattegat, ANE, Skagerrak, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, Halichoerus grypus (Fabricius, 1791), Phoca vitulina Linnaeus, 1758 Geographical coverage ANE, Baltic, Baltic Proper [Marine Regions] ANE, Kattegat [Marine Regions] ANE, Skagerrak [Marine Regions] EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box Coordinates: MinLong: 10,7985; MinLat: 55,3615 - MaxLong: 16,9416; MaxLat: 59,002 [WGS84] Temporal coverage
22 August 1988 - 19 August 2020 Taxonomic coverage
Parameter
Count (in assayed sample) of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC] Contributors
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Dataset information: Other: Dataset status: In Progress
Data type: Data
Data origin: Monitoring: field survey
Release date: 2018-09-25
Metadatarecord created: 2010-07-08
Information last updated: 2025-03-26
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