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Metadata: 2001-2011 NERC Sea Mammal Research Unit. The Wash and along the Essex and Kent coast. Distribution and abundance of harbour seals during breeding season.
Abstract:
The Wash is the largest estuary in England, and holds a high population of English harbour seals (Phoco vitulina). This population has been monitored since the 1960s, using counts of animals hauled out as indices of population size. This study is a continuation of that on going monitoring of the harbour seal population. The dataset includes a detialed count of harbour seals along with their location, date of sighting and age estimation. Detailed GIS maps showing the ditribution of the sightings can be found in the appendix of the document. The report finishes with a comparrison of the dataset with previous studies.
Data holder:
Natural England
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Use constraints:
Accessible under NE and DASSH terms and conditions
Other details | ||
Internal code | Internally assigned metadata identifier | 2460 |
Title | The title is used to provide a brief and precise description of the dataset such as 'Date', 'Originating organisation/programme', 'Location' and 'Type of survey'. All acronyms and abbreviations should be reproduced in full. | 2001-2011 NERC Sea Mammal Research Unit. The Wash and along the Essex and Kent coast. Distribution and abundance of harbour seals during breeding season. |
File Identifier | The File Identifier is a code, preferably a GUID, that is globally unique and remains with the same metadata record even if the record is edited or transferred between portals or tools. | 172faf8015ee932f81604170eee0d833 |
Resource Identifier | This is the code assigned by the data owner. | NATENG000215 |
Resource type | The resource type will likely be a dataset but could also be a series (collection of datasets with a common specification) or a service. | dataset |
Start date | This describes the date the resource starts. This may only be the year if month and day are not known | 2002-06-22 |
End date | This describes the date the resource ends. This may only be the year if month and day are not known | 2011-07-02 |
Spatial resolution | This describes the spatial resolution of the dataset or the spatial limitations of the service. | inapplicable |
Frequency of updates | This describes the frequency with which the resource is modified or updated i.e. a monitoring programme that samples once per year has a frequency that is described as 'annually'. | notPlanned |
Abstract | The abstract provides a clear and brief statement of the content of the resource. | The Wash is the largest estuary in England, and holds a high population of English harbour seals (Phoco vitulina). This population has been monitored since the 1960s, using counts of animals hauled out as indices of population size. This study is a continuation of that on going monitoring of the harbour seal population. The dataset includes a detialed count of harbour seals along with their location, date of sighting and age estimation. Detailed GIS maps showing the ditribution of the sightings can be found in the appendix of the document. The report finishes with a comparrison of the dataset with previous studies. |
Lineage | Lineage includes the background information, history of the sources of data, data quality statements and methods. | Counts of the distribution and abundance of Phoca vitulina in the Wash were carried out during the breeding seasons each year between 27th June and 4th July in each year from 2004 to 2011. Surveys were carried out over the period 1.5 hours before to 2 hours after low water. All tidal sand banks and all creeks accessible to seals were examined visually. All groups of more than 10 animals were photographed using either colour reversal film in a vertically mounted 5X4" format, image motion compensated camera in 2004 and 2005 or with a hand held digital SLR camera since. Marine Recorder survey number: MRNE013400000009 |
Related keywords | ||
Keyword | General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Marine Environmental Data and Information Network |
General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Species distribution | |
General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Seal abundance | |
General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Seal reproduction | |
General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Seal behaviour | |
General subject area(s) associated with the resource, uses multiple controlled vocabularies | Seal mortality | |
Geographical coverage | ||
North | The northern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 53.1813 |
East | The eastern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 0.6757 |
South | The southern-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | 52.7296 |
West | The western-most limit of the data resource in decimal degrees | -0.0906 |
Regional sea | Southern North Sea | |
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35E9 | ||
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North Sea | ||
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Responsible organisations | ||
Role | The point of contact is person or organisation with responsibility for the creation and maintenance of the metadata for the resource. | pointOfContact |
Organisation name | Natural England | |
Position name | Data Manager | |
Phone | +44 (0)300 060 3900 | |
Fax | +44 (0)300 060 2356 | |
Delivery point | Foss House, Kings Pool, 1-2 Peasholme Green | |
Postal code | YO1 7PX | |
City | York | |
Role | The distributor is the person or organisation that distributes the resource. | distributor |
Organisation name | Natural England | |
Position name | Data Manager | |
Phone | +44 (0)300 060 3900 | |
Fax | +44 (0)300 060 2356 | |
Delivery point | Foss House, Kings Pool, 1-2 Peasholme Green | |
Postal code | YO1 7PX | |
City | York | |
Role | The originator is the person or organisation who created, collected or produced the resource. | originator |
Organisation name | Sea Mammal Research Unit (SMRU) | |
Individual name | Dr. David Thompson | |
Phone | +44 (0)1334 462630 | |
Delivery point | Gatty Marine Laboratory University of St Andrews | |
Postal code | KY16 8LB | |
City | St Andrews | |
Role | The custodian is the person or organisation that accepts responsibility for the resource and ensures appropriate care and maintenance. If a dataset has been lodged with a Data Archive Centre for maintenance then this organisation is be entered here. | custodian |
Organisation name | Natural England | |
Position name | Data Manager | |
Phone | +44 (0)300 060 3900 | |
Fax | +44 (0)300 060 2356 | |
Delivery point | Foss House, Kings Pool, 1-2 Peasholme Green | |
Postal code | YO1 7PX | |
City | York | |
Dataset constraints | ||
20 Limitations on Public Access - Access constraints | otherRestrictions | |
20 Limitations on Public Access - Other constraints | This states any limitations on access to the data and uses free text. | Accessible under NE and DASSH terms and conditions |
21 Conditions for Access and Use - Use limitation | This states any constraints on use of the data. Multiple conditions can be recorded for different parts of the data resource. If no conditions apply, then `No condtions apply` is recorded. This uses free text. | Accessible under NE and DASSH terms and conditions |
Available data formats | ||
Data format | Format in which digital data can be provided for transfer | Delimited |
Version info | ||
Date of publication | The publication date of the resource or if previously unpublished the date that the resource was made publicly available via the MEDIN network. | 2011-12-31 |
Harvest date | The date which this record has been (re)harvested from the provider. | 2024-04-14 |
Metadata date | The date when the content of this metadata record was last updated. | 2016-09-19 |
Metadata standard name | The name of the metadata standard used to create this metadata | MEDIN Discovery metadata standard |
Metadata standard version | The version of the MEDIN Discovery Metadata Standard used to create the metadata record | 2.3.8 |