EDP Baixo Sabor: Construction and Reservoir Filling Phases - Iberian Wolf [howling surveys] - [2010-2014]

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 161 records.

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Mota P, Vingada J V, Ferreira J, Diogo H M, Morgado R G, Rodrigues P, Garrido N, Eira C I, Pinto N, Marques C, Múrias, T (2020): EDP Baixo Sabor: Construction and Reservoir Filling Phases - Iberian Wolf [howling surveys] - [2010-2014]. v1. EDP - Energias de Portugal. Dataset/Samplingevent. http://ipt.gbif.pt/ipt/resource?r=edp_sabor_wolf_howls&v=1.0

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is EDP. 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: fe2c3e56-d4e6-4a3f-a56d-b1e349d48b94.  EDP publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Portugal.

Keywords

Iberian Wolf; Canis lupus; howling; acoustic sampling; point counts.

Contacts

Geographic Coverage

Data were collected along the lower Sabor river valley and its tributaries, in 38 5x5 km squares, from the river mouth to 42 km upstream, in the municipalities of Torre de Moncorvo, Alfândega da Fé, Mogadouro and Macedo de Cavaleiros.

Taxonomic Coverage

The taxonomic coverage of this dataset spans 1 class, 1 order, 1 familiy, 1 genus and 1 species.

Temporal Coverage

Project Data

The dataset contains the results of Iberian Wolf (Canis lupus) (Mammalia) surveys made in the lower valley of River Sabor (NE Portugal), some of its small tributaries, and in the rivers Maçãs and Angueira, in the scope of the long-term Ecological Monitoring Program (PME) of the Baixo Sabor Hydroelectric Dams (AHBS), promoted by EDP – Energias de Portugal, S.A. Surveys were made in the area affected by the dam, and in control areas farther from the dam, from June 2010 to August 2014. Sampling was performed 1-3 times a year, between May or June (in 2010) and November, with a total of 19-28 howling stations sampled each year. No detection of Iberian wolf was obtained during these surveys, thus the dataset reports on locations where the species was deemed absent, thereby providing a baseline to assess future changes in species occurrence patterns.

The personnel involved in the project:

Sampling Methods

Acoustic sampling was designed to cover the whole study area, with particular emphasis on places of confirmed or potential occurrence of Iberian Wolf. A total of 28 (2010-11), 14 (2012) or 19 (2013-14) acoustic (howling) stations were distributed throughout the 38 5x5 km squares. Surveys took place between May and November of each year. At each station, simulated howling sequences interrupted by pauses of a few minutes were performed. This method is most effective in detecting offspring, which are more likely to respond to simulated howling and so this method is just applied during the breeding season and dependence of the offspring (May to October).

Method step description:

1. To be completed

Additional Metadata