Name: SHARK - National Harbour seal monitoring in Sweden since 1988
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Data from Swedish environmental monitoring of abundance of Harbour seal. Swedish monitoring of Harbour seals started in 1988. The monitoring program was initiated by the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency and later the Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management took over the responsibility and financing of the program. 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 seal 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

Citation

Swedish Museum of Natural History, Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management, Swedish Environmental Protection Agency and Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (2018). SHARK - National Harbour seal monitoring in Sweden since 1988.

Published

March 28, 2022 at 14:19

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

URL

http://ipt.vliz.be/eurobis/resource?r=shark_harbourseal

Archive

http://ipt.vliz.be/eurobis/archive.do?r=shark_harbourseal

Contacts

Swedish Environmental Protection Agency
Swedish Environmental Protection Agency

Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute
Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute

Swedish Museum of Natural History
Swedish Museum of Natural History

Lisa Sundqvist
Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute

Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management
Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management

22,575

total submitted occurrences

22,575

accepted occurrences

23,733

measurements and facts

taxa

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	22,575	100.0%
maximumDepthInMeters	22,575	100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters	22,575	100.0%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Dropped	Records
NO_DEPTH		22,575	100.0%
ON_LAND		10,157	45.0%

SHARK - National Harbour seal monitoring in Sweden since 1988

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data