NE Scotland marine mammal records 1800-2010
Citation
North East Scotland Biological Records Centre (2023). NE Scotland marine mammal records 1800-2010. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/suphju accessed via GBIF.org on 2025-04-21.Description
Marine mammal records held at North-East Scotland Biological Records Centre - various surveys and casual observations
Purpose
Casual recording. The majority of records are submitted through voluntary efforts.
Sampling Description
Quality Control
Records have been submitted to varying levels of verification. Some critical species have been verified by local and national experts though many records have not been verified.please note NESBReC shares data with a number of local and national recording groups therefore some records found within this dataset may be replicated in other datasets available from NBN.
Method steps
- Miscellaneous recording methods; mostly casual records.
Taxonomic Coverages
Geographic Coverages
Records compiled from North-East Scotland (administrative areas of Aberdeen City, Aberdeenshire, and Moray).
Records are biased towards well recorded areas, especially Deeside, Aberdeen and the coast and, to a lesser extent, Donside.
Records collected at a variety of spatial scales ranging from 2 to 10 figure grid references.
Records are biased towards well recorded areas, especially Deeside, Aberdeen and the coast and, to a lesser extent, Donside.
Records collected at a variety of spatial scales ranging from 2 to 10 figure grid references.
Bibliographic Citations
Contacts
originatorNorth East Scotland Biological Records Centre
metadata author
North East Scotland Biological Records Centre
distributor
NBN Atlas
27 Old Gloucester St, Holborn
London
WC1N 3AX
London
GB
email: admin@nbnatlas.org
Glenn Roberts
administrative point of contact
email: nesbrec@aberdeenshire.gov.uk