Fauna species from the Sectoral Plan of the Natura 2000 (Polygons)

Glória Araújo1, Tomé Neves2

1 ICNF, , Portugal; 2 Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Lisboa, Portugal

Corresponding author(s): Glória Araújo, Tomé Neves

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Resource Citation

Araújo G, Neves T (2021): Fauna species from the Sectoral Plan of the Natura 2000 (Polygons). v1. ICNF - Instituto da Conservação da Natureza e das Florestas. Dataset/Occurrence. http://ipt.gbif.pt/ipt/resource?r=psrn2000_fauna_poligonos&amp;v=1.0

Abstract

The publication of this document is related to the implementation of the Sectoral Plan of the Natura 2000 Network (PSRN2000). The PSRN2000 is an instrument of territorial management, which aims to keep species and habitats in a favorable conservation status and to safeguard and enhance the value of Special Protection Areas (SPA) and Sites of Community Importance (SCI) of the continental territory. In essence, it is an instrument to manage biodiversity.
It is a Plan created at a macro-scale (1:100 000) for the continental territory, which characterizes natural and semi-natural habitats as well as the fauna and flora species present in SCIs and SPAs. It also defines strategical guidelines to manage the territory under these areas, taking into account the natural assets present in them.
PSRN2000 links Public Entities, offering strategical guidelines and norms for the Local and Central Administration. It falls under the Article 8.º from the Decree-Law n.º 140/99, of 24 April, as amended by Decree-Law n.º 49/2005 of 24/4, having been approved in 2008, with the publication of the Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers n.º 115-A/2008, of 21 July.

The present data is a function of the type of information available for each of the species, specifically with regards to the mapping scale and the degree of geographical coverage. It contains occurrence data for fauna belonging to 3 phyla, 5 classes, 8 orders, 15 families, 16 genera and 25 species.

Keywords: Occurrence, Plano Setorial da RN2000, Natura 2000, RN2000, Diretiva habitats, PSRN2000, SIC, ZEC, Sítios de Importância Comunitária (SIC), Zonas Especiais de Conservação (ZEC), Instituto da Conservação da Natureza e das Florestas, ICNF, Special Protection Areas (SPA), Sites of Community Importance (SCI), Portugal

Project details

Project title: Espécies da fauna e da flora do Plano Setorial da RN2000
Personnel: Teresa Pimenta
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.

Data published through GBIF: http://ipt.gbif.pt/ipt/resource?r=psrn2000_fauna_poligonos

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: This dataset contains occurrence data for fauna belonging to 3 phyla, 5 classes, 8 orders, 15 families, 16 genera and 25 species.
Taxonomic ranks
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda, Chordata, Mollusca
Class: Amphibia, Gastropoda, Insecta, Mammalia, Reptilia
Order: Carnivora, Caudata, Chiroptera, Coleoptera, Lepidoptera, Squamata, Stylommatophora, Testudines
Family: Arionidae, Canidae, Cerambycidae, Emydidae, Erebidae, Felidae, Geoemydidae, Lacertidae, Lucanidae, Miniopteridae, Mustelidae, Nymphalidae, Rhinolophidae, Salamandridae, Vespertilionidae
Genus: Barbastella, Callimorpha, Canis, Cerambyx, Chioglossa, Emys, Euphydryas, Geomalacus, Lacerta, Lucanus, Lutra, Lynx, Mauremys, Miniopterus, Myotis, Rhinolophus

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Portugal Mainland 
Coordinates: 36°59'45.6''N and 42°6'43.2''N Latitude; 9°27'21.6''W and 6°11'38.4''W Longitude 

Methods

Method step description: Preparation of the dataset for GBIF publication used as source the geographic layer in shapefile format. The data layer was a vector layer containing polygons with various sizes. The following steps were performed:
- conversion of the spatial layer to geographic coordinates using WGS84 as reference system;
- determined the centroids of the polygons;
- used the centroids to determine the locations based on the Carta Administrativa Oficial de Portugal 2020 (CAOP2020) and OpenStreetMaps;
- determined WKT for the polygons;
- calculated the coordinate precision based on the distance of the centroid to the farthest point of the polygon that originated it;
- exported to csv and reinterpreted attributes matching to DwC standard terms.
Study extent description: The geographic area considered for the original study was Portugal Mainland.
Sampling description: The cartography for the PSRN2000 originated from a systematization, to the scale of 1:100 000, of the cartographic information available in various formats (polygons, lines, dots and grids) and mapping scales, which resulted some simplifications and generalizations.
Quality control description: All initial data was inserted in a specific relational database built specifically for the project, which implemented several quality control methods. In the preparation of the dataset for GBIF publication, data consistency was verified using cluster algorithms using OpenRefine.

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Fauna species from the Sectoral Plan of the Natura 2000 (Polygons)
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: http://ipt.gbif.pt/ipt/archive.do?r=psrn2000_fauna_poligonos
Publication date of data: 2021-08-19
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

External datasets

Dataset description
Object name: WMS
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Raster
Distribution: http://si.icnf.pt/wms/psrn2000_fauna_poligonos

Dataset description
Object name: WFS
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Shapefile
Distribution: http://si.icnf.pt/wfs/psrn2000_fauna_poligonos

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2021-08-03
Hierarchy level: Dataset