Dataset landingpage: BioBasis Zackenberg - Birds - Breeding bird abundance

This is the landing page for a dataset in the Greenland Ecosystem Monitoring (GEM) database. This page embeds schema.org metadata as JSON-LD, describing the dataset in machine readable and interoperable format.

Dataset specification

  • Title: BioBasis Zackenberg - Birds - Breeding bird abundance
  • Description: Data on breeding birds territories as a result of annual breeding birds census. For further details, please refer to the newest BioBasis manual available at the website. Birds:Birds BioBasis Zackenberg:The BioBasis programme monitors the dynamics of organisms and biological processes in the terrestrial and limnic ecosystems at Zackenberg and Nuuk. The BioBasis programme plays a central role in the development and implementation of the Circumpolar Biodiversity Monitoring Programme (CBMP) http://www.caff.is/monitoring across the Arctic.
  • DOI: 10.17897/1Z6Z-FQ32 - https://doi.org/10.17897/1Z6Z-FQ32
  • Location/site: Bird census area - -20.57, 74.47 (lon-lat wgs84)
  • Date span of the dataset: 1996 - 2021

Data originator, license and how to download the dataset

The dataset is a product of the Greenland Ecosystem Monitoring program (GEM): https://grid.ac/institutes/grid.507580.f. It is free and open data, licensed with terms of use under the Creative Commons CC-BY-SA license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ When downloading you will automatically get a terms of use document, describing how to cite the data and other important information.

Download the dataset via this link (registration needed): http://data.g-e-m.dk/log-in/data-tables?doi=10.17897/1Z6Z-FQ32

Variables measured / columns in dataset

ID Name Unit Data Type Description
http://data.g-e-m.dk/datasets?doi=10.17897/1Z6Z-FQ32&column=Species Species Text Text Scientific species name
http://data.g-e-m.dk/datasets?doi=10.17897/1Z6Z-FQ32&column=TerritoryID TerritoryID Number Number Territory ID
http://data.g-e-m.dk/datasets?doi=10.17897/1Z6Z-FQ32&column=Easting Easting M Number Position UTM 27X East
http://data.g-e-m.dk/datasets?doi=10.17897/1Z6Z-FQ32&column=Northing Northing M Number Position UTM 27X North
http://data.g-e-m.dk/datasets?doi=10.17897/1Z6Z-FQ32&column=Status Status Text Text Status of the next; N = territory on the basis of nest location, B = territory on the basis of brood location, T = (territory on the basis of territorial behaviour), ? = territory on the basis of presence of possible territorial bird(S)
http://data.g-e-m.dk/datasets?doi=10.17897/1Z6Z-FQ32&column=Remarks Remarks Text Text Remarks
http://data.g-e-m.dk/datasets?doi=10.17897/1Z6Z-FQ32&column=Year Year Number Number Year of investigation