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SHARK - National environmental monitoring of Grey seal in Sweden since 1989
Citation
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 Grey seal in Sweden since 1989 https://doi.org/10.15468/ygk52s
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Availability: 
To the extent possible under law, the person who associated CC0 with this dataset has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this dataset.
To the extent possible under law, the person who associated CC0 with this dataset has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this dataset.Description
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 more
Method step description: Data is collected by counting seals from land, ship or airplane.
Method step description: Data is collected by counting seals from land, ship or airplane.
Scope
Themes:
Biology > Mammals
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, aeroplane, Air monitoring, land or seafloor, Long-term monitoring, Marine mammals, ship, Top predators, ANE, Baltic, ANE, Skagerrak, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, Halichoerus grypus (Fabricius, 1791), Phocidae Gray, 1821
Geographical coverage
ANE, Baltic [Marine Regions]
ANE, Skagerrak [Marine Regions]
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: 10,8268; MinLat: 55,3554 - MaxLong: 24,3333; MaxLat: 65,7267 [WGS84]
Coordinates: MinLong: 10,8268; MinLat: 55,3554 - MaxLong: 24,3333; MaxLat: 65,7267 [WGS84]
Temporal coverage
1 January 1989 - 8 June 2020
Parameter
Count (in assayed sample) of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC]
Contributors
Swedish Museum of Natural History (NRM), data creator
Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management, data creator
Swedish Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA), data creator
Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI), data creator
Related datasets
Parent dataset:
SHARK: Marine biological data of Sweden
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more
Dataset status: In Progress
Data type: Data
Data origin: Monitoring: field survey
Metadatarecord created: 2010-07-08
Information last updated: 2022-08-11
