European Seabirds At Sea (ESAS)
European Seabirds At Sea (ESAS) assembles offshore monitoring data on seabirds and marine mammals. This international database mostly includes data from the North Sea, yet large parts of the northeastern Atlantic Ocean are covered as well. It finds its origin in the 'Seabirds at Sea' project, which was initiated in 1979 following the discovery of major oil potential in the North Sea and an urgent need to gain more knowledge on the occurrence and distribution of seabirds in their offshore habitat. This led to the execution of large-scale ship-based surveys across the North Sea using a standardized data collection method and a first European-wide data assembly in 1991.
Simple
- Date (Publication)
- 2022-06-14
- Citation identifier
- https://doi.org/10.14284/601
- Citation identifier
- https://gis.ices.dk/geonetwork/srv/resources/7a6151e4-812b-4455-97a2-74c5102d418f
- Status
- On going
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role INBO
Nicolas Vanerman
Point of contact
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Continual
- Keywords
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Birds
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Marine
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Distribution
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Abundance
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Offshore
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Species diversity
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- Discipline
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North-east Atlantic
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Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.
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Europe
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SeaVoX salt and fresh water body gazetteer
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Northeast Atlantic Ocean (40W)
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Continents
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- Keywords
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- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- no limitations to public access
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
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Available under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) License v4.0
- Use limitation
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Available under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) License v4.0
- Use limitation
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Data is available under the terms of the ICES Data Policy. (See: https://ices.dk/data/guidelines-and-policy/Pages/ICES-data-policy.aspx)
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Biota
- Oceans
- Begin date
- 1979-01-01
- End date
- 2022-06-01
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- Supplemental Information
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Taxonomic cover: Aves, Cetacea, Pinnipedia
- Reference system identifier
- WGS 1984
- Distribution format
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Name Version Text
v1.0
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
https://www.ices.dk/data/data-portals/Pages/European-Seabirds-at-sea.aspx European Seabirds At Sea (Landing Page)
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
https://esas.ices.dk/inventory ESAS Download web interface
UKST
https://esas.ices.dk/webservices API web services
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Explanation
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This data set is conformant with the INSPIRE Implementing Rules for the interoperability of spatial data sets and services
- Pass
- Yes
- Statement
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ESAS data are collected by various partners during aerial or ship-based surveys at sea and according to a methodology that allows to calculate georeferenced seabird densities. Standard practice further implies collecting as much information as possible on animal age, plumage and behaviour as well as observation conditions and distance to the observed individuals.
As part of the WOZEP research project, ESAS data were migrated in 2022 from its former host JNCC (UK) to ICES. The ICES infrastructure allows partners to submit new data and users to download or request data.
Further information https://esas-docs.ices.dk/
Metadata
- File identifier
- 7a6151e4-812b-4455-97a2-74c5102d418f XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2023-12-14T08:19:50.402Z
- Metadata standard name
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ISO 19115:2003/19139
- Metadata standard version
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1.0
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role International Council for the Exploration of the Sea
ICES Data Centre
Point of contact