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Gridded abundance maps of marine mammals from the North Sea
Citation
Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ); Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ); (2015):Gridded abundance maps of marine mammals 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/5457
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Description
Gridded abundance maps of seal species. 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 > Mammals
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Interpolated mapping, ANE, North Sea, Cetacea, Phocidae Gray, 1821, Phocoena phocoena (Linnaeus, 1758)

Geographical coverage
ANE, North Sea [Marine Regions]

Temporal coverage
1980 - 2010

Taxonomic coverage
Cetacea [WoRMS]
Phocidae Gray, 1821 [WoRMS]
Phocoena phocoena (Linnaeus, 1758) [WoRMS]

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

Related datasets
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
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