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Gridded abundance maps of marine birds from the North Sea
Citation
Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ); Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ); (2015):Gridded abundance maps of marine birds from the North Sea; European Marine Observation Data Network (EMODnet) Biology project (www.emodnet-biology.eu), funded by the European Commission’s Directorate - General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (DG MARE). https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/5454
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Description
Gridded abundance maps of marine birds from the North Sea. All the bird species of this dataset are indicator species for Descriptor 1 Biodiversity of the MSFD for the North East Atlantic. This product was developed with DIVA (Data-Interpolating Variational Analysis). Data was provided by JNCC (Joint Nature Conservation Committee): Dunn, T. 2012. JNCC seabird distribution and abundance data (all trips) from ESAS database. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/427).

Scope
Themes:
Biology > Birds
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Interpolated mapping, ANE, North Sea, Alca torda Linnaeus, 1758, Fulmarus glacialis (Linnaeus, 1761), Larus argentatus Pontoppidan, 1763, Morus bassanus (Linnaeus, 1758), Rissa tridactyla (Linnaeus, 1758), Somateria mollissima (Linnaeus, 1758), Stercorarius skua (Brünnich, 1764), Sterna sandvicensis Latham, 1787

Geographical coverage
ANE, North Sea [Marine Regions]

Temporal coverage
1979 - 2010

Taxonomic coverage
Alca torda Linnaeus, 1758 [WoRMS]
Fulmarus glacialis (Linnaeus, 1761) [WoRMS]
Larus argentatus Pontoppidan, 1763 [WoRMS]
Morus bassanus (Linnaeus, 1758) [WoRMS]
Rissa tridactyla (Linnaeus, 1758) [WoRMS]
Somateria mollissima (Linnaeus, 1758) [WoRMS]
Stercorarius skua (Brünnich, 1764) [WoRMS]
Sterna sandvicensis Latham, 1787 [WoRMS]

Contributors
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ), moredata creator
Koninklijk Nederlands Instituut voor Onderzoek der Zee (NIOZ), moredata creator

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Source dataset:
JNCC seabird distribution and abundance data (all trips) from ESAS database, more

Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data products
Data origin: Monitoring: field survey
Metadatarecord created: 2016-10-07
Information last updated: 2022-08-09
All data in the Integrated Marine Information System (IMIS) is subject to the VLIZ privacy policy