Alternate title

Seabird Nesting Counts (British Isles)

Date

Identifier

Bird reproduction | Seabird Nesting Counts | Joint Nature Conservation Committee - Marine Conservation Branch, Peterborough | Seabird Nesting Counts (British Isles)

Other citation details

Seabird Nesting Counts (British Isles)

Purpose

The Seabird 2000 dataset is a full census of all of the breeding seabirds in Britain and Ireland. The data was gathered by over 1000 surveyors mainly between the years 1999 and 2003 from both coastal and inland colonies.

Status

onGoing On going

Maintenance and update frequency

Unknown

Used by challenges

• Atlantic - CH01 - Windfarm Siting

Environmental matrix

• Biota - Biology

Production mode

• Delayed

Visibility

• Search via reference catalogue (e.g. MyOcean, GEOSS Geoportal…)

Policy visibility

• There is detailed information provided to understand data policy

Readyness

• Format not proprietary and content clearly specified (e.g. autodescriptive like ODV, NetCDF CF) or at least with appropriate document describing the content

Parameter Discovery Vocabulary (P02)

• Bird reproduction

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

• Species distribution

Processing level of characteristics

• High level analyzed

Data delivery mechanisms

• Online discovery and downloading services

Parameter Usage Vocabulary (other)

• Seabird Nesting Counts

Agreed Parameter Groups (P03)

• Birds, mammals and reptiles

Service extent

• The datasets are referenced in a public national catalogue, in an international catalogue service

Validation

• Submitted

Access constraints

Other restrictions

Other constraints

Unrestricted

Use limitation

Open and Free. No charge

Spatial representation type

vector Vector

Metadata language

Français

Character set

utf8 UTF8

Topic category

• Oceans

Environment description

Data for evaluating the impact of OWF siting on biological resources.

Begin date

1999-01-01T00:00:00

End date

2003-12-31T00:00:00

Dimension name

Time

Resolution

4  year

Transformation parameter availability

Yes

Checkpoint Availability

Yes

Distribution format

• ESRI Shapefile ()

OnLine resource

Dataset Listings and Download Options ( WWW:LINK )

OnLine resource

magseabirds_shp.zip ( WWW:LINK )

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Statement

NA

Attribute description

observation

Content type

Physical measurement

File identifier

db98035e-5d13-4e3f-ba67-6e8b318502e5 XML

Metadata language

English

Character set

UTF8

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Hierarchy level name

Atlantic - CH01 - Windfarm Siting

Date stamp

2016-11-17T12:33:37Z

Metadata standard name

ISO 19115-3 - Emodnet Checkpoint - Upstream Data

Metadata standard version

1.0