Dataset

SHARK - National marine environmental monitoring of Seal pathology in Sweden

OBIS Secretariat MeasurementOrFact Open in mapper Explore occurrences

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. Monitoring is performed by the Swedish Museum of Natural History. Data is stored in the Swedish archive for oceanographic data (SHARK) database, curated by SMHI. 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

Citation
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
Published
May 07, 2024 at 09:20
First registration
October 24, 2025 at 15:32
License
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)
URL
https://www.gbif.se/ipt/resource?r=shark-sealpathology
Archive
https://www.gbif.se/ipt/archive.do?r=shark-sealpathology

Contacts

SHARK SMHI
Swedish Meterological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI)

2,910
total submitted occurrences
2,910
accepted occurrences
36,644
measurements and facts
3
taxa
3
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
maximumDepthInMeters 2,910
100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters 2,910
100.0%

Quality flags

The OBIS data quality flags are documented at https://github.com/iobis/obis-qc.

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 2,910
100.0%

Measurement types

DNA derived data