Date

Identifier

Administrative units | Limits of IBA sites | BirdLife International |

Other citation details

IBAs Boundaries

Purpose

Many seabird species are spectacularly mobile, travelling thousands of kilometres across international waters and multiple Exclusive Economic Zones and only return to land to breed.BirdLife International’s Important Bird Areas (IBA) programme identifies the most important sites for site-based conservation efforts. To date, over 10,000 IBAs have been identified globally. Delivering Important Bird and Biodiversity Area (IBA). Dataset available to download under request.

Status

onGoing On going

Maintenance and update frequency

Unknown

Used by challenges

• Atlantic - CH01 - Windfarm Siting

Environmental matrix

• Biota - Biology

Production mode

• Delayed

Visibility

• Use of open search engines, searching by name either the data provider or the characteristics

Policy visibility

• There is information, but details are available only on request

Readyness

• Format proprietary but content clearly specified

Parameter Discovery Vocabulary (P02)

• Administrative units

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

• Protected sites

Processing level of characteristics

• High level analyzed

Data delivery mechanisms

• Online discovery + downloading + viewing services (Advanced services)

Parameter Usage Vocabulary (other)

• Limits of IBA sites

Agreed Parameter Groups (P03)

• Birds, mammals and reptiles

Service extent

• Data sets are not referenced in a catalogue or are referenced in a non public catalogue

Validation

• Submitted

Access constraints

Other restrictions

Other constraints

Restricted

Use limitation

Free of charge for academic institutions and uses

Spatial representation type

vector Vector

Metadata language

Français

Character set

utf8 UTF8

Topic category

• Oceans

Environment description

Offshore Windfarms may pose risks to marine birds (collision, barriers to moviment and change of habitats). Migratory routes and flying patterns can affect the design or the siting of a windfarm. IBAs polygons will help OWF siting that limits those risks

Begin date

NA

Dimension name

Time

Resolution

1  

Transformation parameter availability

Yes

Checkpoint Availability

Yes

Distribution format

• ESRI Shapefile ()

OnLine resource

Data zone ( WWW:LINK )

OnLine resource

Marine IBA e-Atlas ( WWW:LINK )

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Statement

NA

Attribute description

observation

Content type

Physical measurement

File identifier

6078ac6c-03ea-458b-a196-950538f6c82f XML

Metadata language

English

Character set

UTF8

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Date stamp

2018-04-24T10:29:45Z

Metadata standard name

ISO 19115-3 - Emodnet Checkpoint - Upstream Data

Metadata standard version

1.0