Artportalen is a website for reporting and retrieving information on observations of Sweden’s plants, animals and fungi. Observations are entered individually or into several thousand subsets/projects (some of which are individually searchable) by individuals and NGOs (95% of data), by public authorities or agencies, and by corporate enterprises. An observation may include not only the species identity, reporter identity, location and date but additional information such as habitat type and weather can also be entered.
Access to ca. 93% of all data contained in the original dataset is unrestricted, the remainder is data for sensitive species as classified by the national checklist of sensitive species managed by SLU Swedish Species Information Centre. This dataset contains the open data. The restricted data can be retrieved from the original dataset given permission and requiring special log-in credentials.
Artportalen covers more than 40 000 Swedish species out of the 62 600 recorded in total from the country, including plants (18% of data representing flowering plants and mosses), vertebrates (0.2% fishes and herptiles, 70% birds, 0.4% mammals), invertebrates (8%) and fungi (4%). 81% of all data represent observations made from 2001-present, and almost all remaining observations refer to the period 1951-2000.
Taxa, nomenclature and hierarchy are sourced from Dyntaxa – the Swedish taxonomic database. Artportalen is developed and operated by the SLU Swedish Species Information Centre (SLU Artdatabanken) at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, on behalf of the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency.
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[This dataset was processed using the GBIF Metabarcoding Data Toolkit.]
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The Data User is urged to contact the authors of these data if any questions about methodology or results occur. The Data User has an ethical obligation to cite the data source appropriately in any publication or product that results from its use, and notify the dataset authors. A recommended citation for the data package is available from the download page. Please send copies of any published manuscript based on these data to the data contact and data creator. The Data User should be aware that data are updated periodically and it is the responsibility of the Data User to check for new versions of the data. Extensive efforts are made to ensure that online data are accurate and up to date, but the authors will not take responsibility for any errors that may exist in data provided online. Furthermore, the Data User assumes all responsibility for errors in analysis or judgment resulting from use of the data. The data authors and the repository where these data were obtained shall not be liable for damages resulting from any use or misinterpretation of the data.
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[This dataset was processed using the GBIF Metabarcoding Data Toolkit.]
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ESAS data are collected by various partners during aerial or ship-based surveys at sea and according to a methodology that allows to calculate georeferenced seabird densities. Standard practice further implies collecting as much information as possible on animal age, plumage and behaviour as well as observation conditions and distance to the observed individuals.
As part of the WOZEP research project, ESAS data were migrated in 2022 from its former host JNCC (UK) to ICES. The ICES infrastructure allows partners to submit new data and users to download or request data. The transformation of these data to Darwin Core is described at <a href="https://github.com/inbo/esas2obis">https://github.com/inbo/esas2obis</a>
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\nThe data produced by DNV is stored in their own Environmental Monitoring database (MOD). It comprises approximately 2.8 million species occurrence records, as well as chemical and geology records. This information comes from grab sampling conducted in areas around oil drilling stations. GBIF Norway is working with DNV to publish the species abundance data in the MOD database.
\nThe grab sampling process is done on a yearly basis around the months of May and June, but not all stations are sampled each year. In general sampling is done around each station every third year, and in some areas samples have been repeated since the 1990s.
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This dataset was collected using infrastructure provided by VLIZ and INBO funded by Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO) as part of the Belgian contribution to LifeWatch.
Data have been standardized to Darwin Core using the movepub R package and are downsampled to the first GPS position per hour. The original data are available in Stienen et al. (2024, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12336021), a deposit of Movebank study 985143423.
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This dataset was collected by the Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO), Waardenburg Ecology, Buijs Eco Consult and Deltamilieu Projecten. Funding was provided by the Wozep programme of Rijkswaterstaat on behalf of the Ministry of Economic Affairs of the Netherlands. All datasets from Wozep will be made publicly available, unless stated otherwise.
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\nThis copy of the IMOS ATF data is of the valid detections downloaded via the IMOS Animal Tracking Portal at https://animaltracking.aodn.org.au/detection. This dataset has been summarized by reducing the detection records to the count of detections per animal per site per day (UTC). The DwC field organismId has been used to record the transmitter serial number. The initial deployment/release of the animal has also been added to the dataset via EMoF using an occurrenceId of the transmitter tag with a postfix of '-release'. Parameters include transmitter type, length and weight of the released animal.
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Abstract:The project (Quoddy Region Pelagics Telemetry) will support the assessment of the effects of aquaculture on the distribution and abundance of pelagic fishes (salmon, mackerel, herring) and large predators (shark, marine mammals) in Passamaquoddy Bay and the Bay of Fundy, an area of intense finfish culture. An acoustic receivers network is placed yearly (from April to December) across various passageways, locations of project-specific interest, and at aquaculture sites in the region. Tagged pelagic species will be tracked through the network to provide information on migration routes, movement speed, survival rates and suspected predators, and determine interaction and residence at aquaculture sites. The network was utilized for monitoring the passage of: hatchery-reared wild salmon (n=340) released in the Magaguadavic River in 2018, 2019 and 2021, wild alewives (n=30) from the St. Croix River in 2021, and farmed Atlantic salmon released in the wild (n=99) in 2021. The receiver network has more recently supported adjacent projects on the use of the region by white shark and porbeagle as well as the residence of mackerel, herring, and sculpin at farm sites. The receivers additionally support other researchers with detection of striped bass, Inner Bay of Fundy Atlantic salmon, sturgeon, and many other species. Placement of the network will continue into 2025 inclusive with the longer-term goal to eventually deploy an array covering the entrance to the Bay of Fundy. ##### Le projet (Quoddy Region Pelagics Telemetry) soutiendra l'évaluation des effets de l'aquaculture sur la distribution et l'abondance des poissons pélagiques (saumon, maquereau, hareng) et des grands prédateurs (requin, mammifères marins) dans l'extérieur de la baie de Passamaquoddy et la baie de Fundy, une zone de pisciculture intense. Un réseau de récepteurs acoustiques est placé chaque année (d'avril à décembre) dans divers passages, emplacements d'intérêt spécifique au projet et sur des sites d'aquaculture de la région. Les espèces pélagiques marquées seront suivies à travers le réseau pour fournir des informations sur les voies de migration, la vitesse de déplacement, les taux de survie et les prédateurs présumés, et déterminer l'interaction et la résidence aux sites d'aquaculture. Le réseau a été utilisé pour déterminer le passage de : saumons d'écloserie (n = 340) relâchés dans la rivière Magaguadavic en 2018, 2019 et 2021, gaspareaux sauvages (n = 30) de la rivière Sainte-Croix en 2021 et saumons atlantiques d'aquaculture relâchés en milieu naturel (n=99) en 2021. Plus récemment, le réseau receveur a soutenu des projets adjacents sur l'utilisation de la région par le requin blanc et la maraîche ainsi que la résidence du maquereau, du hareng et du chabot sur les sites d'élevage. Les récepteurs aident également d'autres chercheurs à détecter le bar rayé, le saumon de l'intérieur de la baie de Fundy, l'esturgeon et de nombreuses autres espèces. Le placement du réseau se poursuivra jusqu'en 2025 inclusivement avec l'objectif à plus long terme de déployer un réseau couvrant l'embouchure de la baie de Fundy.
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