EDP Foz Tua Otter (Lutra lutra) - Complementary Studies [2010]

Description

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 45 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.

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:

da Fonte D, Santos-Reis M, Pedroso N, Chora S, múrias, T (2020): EDP Foz Tua Otter (Lutra lutra) - Complementary Studies [2010]. v1. EDP - Energias de Portugal. Dataset/Samplingevent. http://ipt.gbif.pt/ipt/resource?r=edp_tua_otter_ec42&v=1.0

Rights

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is EDP - Energias de Portugal. 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: ec267ce7-77a2-44e6-a928-bd571f2d02d9.  EDP - Energias de Portugal publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF Portugal.

Keywords

otter; Lutra lutra; occurrence; observations; scats

Contacts

Geographic Coverage

The data were collected in the river Tua sub-basin and in a section of river Douro sub-basin near the tua's mouth (about 15 km to the south), in the municipalities of Carrazeda de Ansiães, Alijó, Vila Flor, Murça, Mirandela, Macedo de Cavaleiros, Valpaços, Vila Pouca de Aguiar, S. João da Pesqueira and Tabuaço.

Taxonomic Coverage

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

Temporal Coverage

Project Data

The dataset contains records of otter (Lutra lutra, Mammalia) collected in plots along rivers Tua and Douro sub-basins and included in the Complementary Studies of the Environmental Impact Assessment of the Foz Tua Hydroelectric Dam, promoted by EDP – Energias de Portugal, S.A. Data were collected in February 2010, during field visits to 46 sampling plots with favorable habitats for otter located in 16 10x10 km UTM squares in the river Tua sub-basin (41) and in river Douro in the vicinity of Tua mouth (five plots). The occurrence of the target taxa was documented through 27 observations of scats identified as belonging to the target species.

The personnel involved in the project:

Sampling Methods

Sampling was designed to cover the course of river Tua and its main tributaries, from the spring to the mouth, and a portion of river Douro and the mouths of its tributaries located in the vicinity of river Tuah. The same grid of 10x10 km squares sampled in the last otter national census (Trindade et al., 1998) was used to sample the Tua's sub-basin. In each square, two sampling plots were randomly established in the selected water line(s). In each sampling point, a transect of 200-600 m was performed along the margins, looking for signs of presence (mostly scats) in suitable places (prominent stones and vegetation in the margins of the water line). Each plot was visited once in February 2010, in dry or light rain periods, to minimize the chance of leaching of the feacal material. The scats were identified "in loco" by expert researchers.

Method step description:

1. To be completed

Additional Metadata