Dataset landingpage: BioBasis Nuuk - Birds - Passerine 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 Nuuk - Birds - Passerine bird abundance
  • Description: The avifauna is monitored with special emphasis on passerine birds representing the highest trophic level. Weekly counts of birds are carried out at 13 census points during the entire season. Other bird observations are recorded ad-hoc during the entire field season. For further details, please refer to the newest BioBasis manual available at the website. Birds:Birds BioBasis Nuuk: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/DRTB-PY74 - https://doi.org/10.17897/DRTB-PY74
  • Location/site: Bird census area - -51.38, 64.13 (lon-lat wgs84)
  • Date span of the dataset: 2008-06-20 - 2022-10-06

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/DRTB-PY74

Variables measured / columns in dataset

ID Name Unit Data Type Description
http://data.g-e-m.dk/datasets?doi=10.17897/DRTB-PY74&column=Date Date Date Date Date of census
http://data.g-e-m.dk/datasets?doi=10.17897/DRTB-PY74&column=Time Time Hour Time Time of census (Local time, UTC -2h summer time, UTC -3h winter time)
http://data.g-e-m.dk/datasets?doi=10.17897/DRTB-PY74&column=Cloud_Cover Cloud_Cover X/8 Number Estimated cloud cover ranging 0 (clear skies) to 8 (overcast)
http://data.g-e-m.dk/datasets?doi=10.17897/DRTB-PY74&column=Point Point Text Text Census point from A to M
http://data.g-e-m.dk/datasets?doi=10.17897/DRTB-PY74&column=Obsperiod Obsperiod Number Number Obsperiod 1 or 2
http://data.g-e-m.dk/datasets?doi=10.17897/DRTB-PY74&column=Species Species Text Text Species of observed passerine(s)
http://data.g-e-m.dk/datasets?doi=10.17897/DRTB-PY74&column=Age Age Text Text Age of observed passerine(s)
http://data.g-e-m.dk/datasets?doi=10.17897/DRTB-PY74&column=Gender Gender Text Text Gender of observed passerine(s)
http://data.g-e-m.dk/datasets?doi=10.17897/DRTB-PY74&column=Number Number Number Number Number of observed passerine(s)
http://data.g-e-m.dk/datasets?doi=10.17897/DRTB-PY74&column=Remarks Remarks Text Text Remarks from the field observer(s)