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Ornithological observations in the southeast of the North Sea between June 1971 and January 1972
Citable as data publication
Joiris C.; Laboratorium voor Ekologie en Systematiek. VUB: Belgium; (2016): Ornithological observations in the southeast of the North Sea between June 1971 and January 1972. https://doi.org/10.14284/136
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Description
Counts of marine bird species observed during three oceanographic cruises in the South-eastern part of the North Sea on board of the A962 "Mechelen" between June 1971 and January 1972. The data were digitized by VLIZ from the original report: Joiris, C. (1972). Observations ornithologiques réalisées dans le sud-est de la Mer du Nord entre juin 1971 et janvier 1972: 1. Oiseaux marins. more

A total of 82 h (in 41 days) was spent watching birds during three oceanographic cruises (June-July 1971, August-September 1971 and January 1972 in the South-eastern part of the North Sea.

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 > Birds
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, ANE, North Sea, Southern Bight, Bio-geographical regions, Biota, Environment, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, Geoscientific Information, Habitats and biotopes, Mechelen, Metadata non conformant, Metadata not evaluated, No limitations to public access, Oceans, research vessel, Sea regions, WGS84 (EPSG:4326), XYZ ASCII, Aves

Geographical coverage
ANE, North Sea, Southern Bight [Marine Regions]
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: 1,6296; MinLat: 51,092 - MaxLong: 4,3889; MaxLat: 52,6322 [WGS84]

Temporal coverage
24 June 1971 - 17 January 1972

Taxonomic coverage
Aves [WoRMS]

Parameters
Count (in assayed sample) of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC]
Count of birds
Presence/absence of biota
Sample duration [BODC]

Contributors
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ), moredata manager
Vrije Universiteit Brussel; Faculteit Wetenschappen; Vakgroep Biologie; Laboratorium voor Ecologie en Systematiek (ECOL), moredata creator

Related datasets
Parent dataset:
Projekt Zee - Bird observations in the Belgian Part of the North Sea 1970-1976, more
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more

Publication
Based on this dataset
Joiris, C. (1972). Observations ornithologiques réalisées dans le sud-est de la Mer du Nord entre juin 1971 et janvier 1972: 1. Oiseaux marins AVES 9(3): 85-137, more


Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research: field survey
Release date: 2020-03-06
Metadatarecord created: 2015-10-12
Information last updated: 2025-03-26
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