10.15468/qznolz
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Badger and Habitats Survey of Ireland
Deirdre Lynn
National Parks & Wildlife Service, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht
NPWS, 7 Ely Place, Dublin 2, Ireland.IRELAND
+353-1-8883293deirdre.lynn@ahg.gov.iehttp://www.npws.ie/en/
National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland
Beechfield house, Carriganore WIT West CampusWaterfordCounty WaterfordIRELAND
+353 (0)51 306 240info@biodiversityireland.iehttp://www.biodiversityireland.ie/
ENGLISH
Dataset with records of badgers and other mammal species made during the period of the survey.
Smal, C. (1995) The Badger and Habitat Survey of Ireland. Unpublished Report to the Department of Agriculture and the National Parks & Wildlife Service.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License.
http://maps.biodiversityireland.ie/DataSet/4
National
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51.515
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1993
The suvey was undertaken to obtain baseline data on the distribution and abundance of badgers in Ireland.
Barry O'Neill
National Biodiversity Data Centre, Ireland
Beechfield house, Carriganore WIT West CampusWaterfordCounty WaterfordIRELAND
+353 (0)51 306 240boneill@biodiversityireland.iehttp://www.biodiversityireland.ie/
Full details of the data capture methodology is available in Smal, C. (1995) The Badger and Habitat Survey of Ireland. Unpublished Report to the Department of Agriculture and the National Parks & Wildlife Service.. Searches for badger setts were made at 729 pre-selected 1km squares from across the country. Setts were classified, mapped and associated habitat data were recorded
All data was checked by the project co-ordinator, Dr Chris Smal. Extensive quality control was carried out at all stages in the project, with trainaing and standardised data collection an important part of the project.
2024-03-29T06:16:20Z
Deirdre Lynn. Badger and Habitats Survey of Ireland. National Biodiversity Data Centre. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/qznolz accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-03-29.