Federal Agency for Nature Conservation: Seabird recording Velvet spread (WMS)

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Dataset information

Catalog

GDI-DE

Country of origin

Germany

Updated

Created

Available languages

German

Keywords

Verbreitungsgebiet, MDI-DE_Nature_and_Environment, Melanitta fusca, AWZ, Seevögel, Samtente, Marine Arten, Bund, Vögel, humanGeographicViewer, Schiffstransekt, Rastvogel, MDI-DE, Räumliche Verbreitung, Flugzeugtransekt, MDI-DE_Natur_und_Umwelt, Deutschland, marines Monitoring

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Quality scoring

165

Dataset description

This service provides information on the population density of velvets (Melanitta fusca) in the German offshore areas based on a 10x10 km grid (EU-GRID). The density [individuals/km²] is determined for each grid cell by adding the individual number of counting points within the respective grid cell and dividing it by the sum of the effort at the counting points. Individual layers show divided by season (art-specific according to Garthe S, Sonntag N, Schwemmer P, Dierschke V (2007) Estimation of seabirdnumbers in the German North Sea throughout the annual cycle and their biogeographic importance. Bird life 128: 163-178) the distribution of each seabird in each year. The data are based on seabird recordings carried out as part of the BfN monitoring programme.

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