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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.

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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
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

INBO

Nicolas Vanerman

nicolas.vanermen@inbo.be

Point of contact
Maintenance and update frequency
Continual
Keywords
  • Birds

  • Marine

  • Distribution

  • Abundance

  • Offshore

  • Species diversity

Discipline
  • North-east Atlantic

Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.

  • Europe

  • SeaVoX salt and fresh water body gazetteer

  • Northeast Atlantic Ocean (40W)

  • Continents

Keywords
    GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
    • Species distribution
    • Habitats and biotopes
    Access constraints
    Other restrictions
    Other constraints
    no limitations to public access
    Use constraints
    Other restrictions
    Other constraints

    Available under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) License v4.0

    Use limitation

    Available under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) License v4.0

    Use limitation

    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
    • Biota
    • Oceans
    Begin date
    1979-01-01
    End date
    2022-06-01
    N
    S
    E
    W
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    Supplemental Information

    Taxonomic cover: Aves, Cetacea, Pinnipedia

    Reference system identifier
    WGS 1984
    Distribution format
    Name Version

    Text

    v1.0

    OnLine resource
    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

    Title
    Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
    Date (Publication)
    2010-12-08
    Explanation

    This data set is conformant with the INSPIRE Implementing Rules for the interoperability of spatial data sets and services

    Pass
    Yes
    Statement

    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

    ISO 19115:2003/19139

    Metadata standard version

    1.0

    Metadata author
    Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

    International Council for the Exploration of the Sea

    ICES Data Centre

    accessions@ices.dk

    Point of contact
     
     

    Overviews

    Spatial extent

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    Keywords

    North-east Atlantic
    GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

    Habitats and biotopes Species distribution


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