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

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

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 Grey seal in Sweden since 1989 https://doi.org/10.15468/ygk52s

Published

July 02, 2024 at 16:36

First registration

May 19, 2022 at 17:17

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

http://ipt.vliz.be/eurobis/resource?r=smhi-greyseal-nat

Archive

https://ipt.vliz.be/eurobis/archive.do?r=smhi-greyseal-nat

Contacts

Swedish Museum of Natural History
Swedish Museum of Natural History

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

Swedish Environmental Protection Agency
Swedish Environmental Protection Agency

Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute
Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute

Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ)
Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ)

Lisa Sundqvist
Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute

13,362

total submitted occurrences

13,291

accepted occurrences

61,116

measurements and facts

taxa

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	12,683		94.9%
decimalLatitude	71		0.5%
decimalLongitude	71		0.5%
eventDate		4	0.0%
maximumDepthInMeters	13,362		100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters	13,362		100.0%

Quality flags

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

Flag	Records
NO_DEPTH	13,362	100.0%
ON_LAND	2,767	20.7%
NO_COORD	71	0.5%

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

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data