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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
Tyberghein, Lennert
Claus, Simon
Hernandez, Francisco
Koninklijk Nederlands Instituut voor Onderzoek der Zee (NIOZ), moredata creator
Herman, Peter

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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