Document of dataset 2459

Dataset record

Type
Dataset
title in English
SHARK - National environmental monitoring of Harbour seal in Sweden since 1988
Abstract in English
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
Contactpoint
Email
shark@smhi.se
License
https://spdx.org/licenses/CC0-1.0.html
bibliographicCitation
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 Harbour seal in Sweden since 1988.
Release date
Sep 25 2018 12:00AM

Temporal coverage

Temporal
Start date
1988-08-22
End date
2020-08-19

Geographical coverage

Spatial
ANE, Baltic, Baltic Proper
ANE, Kattegat
ANE, Skagerrak

Thesaurus terms

Keyword
aeroplane
Air monitoring
Bio-geographical regions
Biota
Environment
Geoscientific Information
Habitats and biotopes
land or seafloor
Long-term monitoring
Metadata non conformant
Metadata not evaluated
No limitations to public access
Oceans
Sea regions
ship
Top predators
WGS84 (EPSG:4326)
XYZ ASCII

Themes

theme
Biology > Mammals

Taxonomic terms

Taxon keywords
Halichoerus grypus (Fabricius, 1791)
Phoca vitulina (Linnaeus, 1758)

Ownerships

creator
Swedish Museum of Natural History
contributor
Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management
creator
Swedish Environmental Protection Agency
creator
Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute

Dataset references

is part of
Marine biological data of Sweden
record
European Ocean Biodiversity Information System

Special collections

part of special collection
available through EurOBIS
EMODNET

Document metadata

date created
2010-07-08
date modified
2025-03-26