MarBEF

JNCC seabird distribution and abundance data (all trips) from ESAS database

Citation

Joint Nature Conservation Committee Seabirds at Sea Team. JNCC seabird distribution and abundance data (all trips) from ESAS database. In: OBIS-SEAMAP. OBIS-SEAMAP http://seamap.env.duke.edu/, vector digital data. https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/1972

Contact: Dunn, Tim

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Availability:

This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Description

Information on dataset available at seamap.env.duke.edu/datasets/detail/427 more

The European Seabirds at Sea Database (ESAS) was established in 1991 as a collaboration between individuals and institutes who had collected data on the distribution of seabirds and marine mammals in north-west European offshore areas. The most recent version of this database contains over two million records which were collected over 25 years. The founding aim of this project was to merge data from different collaborators and use these to publish an atlas depicting vulnerable concentrations of seabirds to oil pollution. Subsequently, these data have been used for a wide variety of research purposes. The collaboration has also developed and defined common standards in data capture, processing and storage.

Scope

Themes:

Biology > Birds

Keywords:

Marine/Coastal, Fresh water, Brackish water, Terrestrial, Long-term monitoring, Marine birds, Monitoring, Europe, Mammalia, Aves

Geographical coverage

Europe [Marine Regions]

Temporal coverage

From 1979 on [In Progress]

Taxonomic coverage

Mammalia [WoRMS]

Aves [WoRMS]