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Feeding ecology of Terns in the Belgian Part of the North sea [Voedingsecologie Sternen in het Belgisch Deel van de Noordzee]
Citation
Data Institute for Nature Conservation. https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/39
Contact: Stienen, Eric

Archived data
Availability: Unrestricted after moratorium period
Data are initially restricted, but the access condition relaxes to academic or unrestricted once a specified period of time after an event (such as collection, publication, completion of QC procedures or project cessation) has elapsed

Description
Dataset on diet composition (species composition and fish length) of Sandwich tern chicks and adults in outer harbour of Zeebruges.

Scope
Themes:
Biology, Biology > Birds, Biology > Fish
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Terrestrial, Birds, Birds (marine), Diets, Food, Otoliths, ANE, Belgium, Belgian Continental Shelf (BCS), ANE, Belgium, Brugge, Zeebrugge, Sterna sandvicensis Latham, 1787

Geographical coverage
ANE, Belgium, Belgian Continental Shelf (BCS) [Marine Regions]
ANE, Belgium, Brugge, Zeebrugge [Marine Regions]

Temporal coverage
May 2002 - June 2002
May 2003 - June 2003
May 2004 - June 2004

Taxonomic coverage
Sterna sandvicensis Latham, 1787 [WoRMS]

Parameters
Diet composition
Fish length

Contributors
Belgian Science Policy (BELSPO), moredata owner
Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen (IRScNB/KBIN), moretaxonomic identifier
Vlaamse overheid; Beleidsdomein Leefmilieu, Natuur en Energie; Instituut voor Natuur- en Bosonderzoek; Afdeling Biodiversiteit en Natuurlijk Milieu; Onderzoeksgroep Ecosysteemdiversiteit, moredata creatordata managertaxonomic identifier
Vlaamse overheid; Beleidsdomein Omgeving; Instituut voor Natuur- en Bosonderzoek (INBO), moredata owner

Related datasets
Parent dataset:
Study of birds in Zeebrugge, more
Child datasets:
Feeding ecology of adult Terns in the Belgian Part of the North sea, more
Feeding ecology of Terns chicks in the Belgian Part of the North sea, more
(Partly) included in:
PROJECT DATA: Integrated data from projects PODOI and Trophos (1997-2006), more

Project
TROPHOS: Higher trophic levels in the Southern North Sea, more

Publication
Based on this dataset
Stienen, E.W.M.; Brenninkmeijer, A. (2005). Foraging decisions of Sandwich Terns in the presence of kleptoparasitising gulls, in: Stienen, E.W.M. Living with gulls: trading off food and predation in the Sandwich Tern Sterna sandvicensis. Alterra Scientific Contributions, 15: pp. 61-79, more
Stienen, E.W.M. et al. (2005). Reflections of a specialist: patterns in food provisioning and foraging conditions in Sandwich Terns Sterna sandvicensis, in: Stienen, E.W.M. Living with gulls: trading off food and predation in the Sandwich Tern Sterna sandvicensis. Alterra Scientific Contributions, 15: pp. 15-37, more
Stienen, E.W.M.; Brenninkmeijer, A. (2002). Foraging decisions of Sandwich Terns in the presence of kleptoparasitising gulls. The Auk 119(2): 473-486. https://dx.doi.org/10.1642/0004-8038(2002)119[0473:FDOSTI]2.0.CO;2, more
Stienen, E.W.M. et al. (2000). Reflections of a specialist: patterns in food provisioning and foraging conditions in Sandwich Terns Sterna sandvicensis. Ardea 88(1): 33-49, more
Used in this dataset
Leopold, M.F. et al. (2001). Otoliths of North Sea fish [CD-ROM]: fish identification key by means of otoliths and other hard parts. World Biodiversity Database CD-ROM Series. Expert Center for Taxonomic Identification (ETI): Amsterdam. ISBN 90-75000-22-7. 1 cd-rom pp., more

Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research
Metadatarecord created: 2004-05-10
Information last updated: 2015-12-03
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