Waterbird Census in Portugal

Sampling event
Latest version published by ICNF - Instituto da Conservação da Natureza e das Florestas on Aug 26, 2021 ICNF - Instituto da Conservação da Natureza e das Florestas

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Description

This dataset is the output of a national waterbird monitoring programme coordinated by ICNF that collects information on the number and distribution of waterbirds at wetland sites in Portugal and is part of the International Waterbird Census project (African-Eurasian Waterbird Census – Europe). The dataset consists of annual waterbird counts, undertaken from 2000 to 2013, of species regularly encountered at wetlands and observed in all types of natural and man-made wetlands in mainland Portugal. In this dataset there is a record of 84 waterbird species, 20 families and 11 orders (Accipitriformes, Anseriformes, Charadriiformes, Ciconiiformes, Gaviiformes, Gruiformes, Pelecaniformes, Phoenicopteriformes, Podicipediformes, Strigiformes, Suliformes).

Data Records

The data in this sampling event resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 539 records.

1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.

Event (core)
539
Occurrence 
7912

This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.

Versions

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Encarnação V, Coelho P (2021): Waterbird Census in Portugal. v1.1. ICNF - Instituto da Conservação da Natureza e das Florestas. Dataset/Samplingevent. http://ipt.gbif.pt/ipt/resource?r=cont_aquaticas_pontos&v=1.1

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is ICNF - Instituto da Conservação da Natureza e das Florestas. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: c278b645-f229-4319-9676-895577eba6ce.  ICNF - Instituto da Conservação da Natureza e das Florestas publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Portugal.

Keywords

Samplingevent; Birds Portugal Wetlands

External data

The resource data is also available in other formats

WMS http://si.icnf.pt/wms/cont_aquaticas_pontos UTF-8 raster
WFS http://si.icnf.pt/wfs/cont_aquaticas_pontos UTF-8 shapefile
KML http://si.icnf.pt/kml/cont_aquaticas_pontos UTF-8 kml
shapefile Censos de aves aquáticas invernantes http://si.icnf.pt/shp/cont_aquaticas_pontos UTF-8 shapefile
Programa Nac. Monitorização Aves Aquáticas Invernantes http://www2.icnf.pt/portal/pn/biodiversidade/ei/cempa/pp-monit/pnmaai UTF-8 html

Contacts

Vitor Encarnação
  • Originator
ICNF
PT
Paula Coelho
  • Metadata Provider
Teresa Pimenta
  • Point Of Contact
Information System Senior Officer
Mário Reis
  • Point Of Contact
Conservation and Monitoring Senior Officer

Geographic Coverage

Portugal Mainland

Bounding Coordinates South West [36.976, -9.536], North East [42.18, -6.152]

Taxonomic Coverage

Waterbirds in natural and man-made wetlands in mainland Portugal: 84 species, 20 families and 11 orders (Accipitriformes, Anseriformes, Charadriiformes, Ciconiiformes, Gaviiformes, Gruiformes, Pelecaniformes, Phoenicopteriformes, Podicipediformes, Strigiformes, Suliformes)

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Chordata
Class Aves
Order Accipitriformes, Anseriformes, Charadriiformes, Ciconiiformes, Gaviiformes, Gruiformes, Pelecaniformes, Phoenicopteriformes, Strigiformes, Suliformes, Podicipediformes

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 2000-01-01 / 2013-01-01

Project Data

This dataset is the output of a national waterbird monitoring programme coordinated by ICNF that collects information on the number and distribution of waterbirds at wetland sites in Portugal and is part of the International Waterbird Census project (African-Eurasian Waterbird Census – Europe).

Title Censos de aves aquáticas invernantes
Funding This work was co-fund by ICNF, I.P. and the European Union, through the Environment Operational Programme (application 1.1/00021– Documentos Estruturantes da Conservação da Natureza e da Biodiversidade). The preparation of this resource for publication through GBIF was supported by Project PORBIOTA—Portuguese E-Infrastructure for Information and Research on Biodiversity (POCI-01-0145-FEDER-022127), under the Operational Thematic Program for Competitiveness and Internationalization (POCI), under the PORTUGAL 2020 Partnership Agreement, through the European Regional Development Fund (FEDER) and FCT.

The personnel involved in the project:

Teresa Pimenta

Sampling Methods

Waterbird annual counts in natural and man-made wetlands in mainland Portugal.

Study Extent The geographic area considered Portugal Mainland. The species included are waterbirds observed in wetland sites (Accipitriformes, Anseriformes, Charadriiformes, Ciconiiformes, Gaviiformes, Gruiformes, Pelecaniformes, Phoenicopteriformes, Podicipediformes, Strigiformes, Suliformes).
Quality Control In the preparation of the dataset for GBIF publication, data consistency was verified using OpenRefine.

Method step description:

  1. Preparation of the dataset for GBIF publication used as source the geographic layer in shape file format. The spatial layer and centroids were converted to geographic coordinates using WGS84 and WKT was determined for the polygons. The file was exported to a csv file and attributes reinterpreted to matching DwC standard terms.

Additional Metadata