RBINS metadata catalog
Marine bird abundance dataset supporting the 2024 Belgian MSFD assessment of D1C2
This dataset is part of the 2024 Belgian submission for the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) linked to descriptor 1, criterion 2. This dataset reports the population abundance (number of individuals, biomass) of benthic-feeding, pelagic-feeding, surface-feeding and wading birds in Belgian waters, combining yearly breeding-colony nest counts along the Belgian coast with ship-based at-sea seabird counts.
Simple
- Date (Creation)
- 2025-02-13
- Date (Revision)
- 2026-09-14
- Date (Publication)
- 2026-09-21
- Date (Creation)
- 2016-05-19
- Unique resource identifier
- https://doi.org/10.24417/bmdc.be:dataset:2922
- Identifier
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http://metadata.naturalsciences.be
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bmdc.be:dataset:2922
Belgian Marine Data Centre
- Other citation details
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This dataset is composed of the following sources: (1) Eric Stienen, Wouter Courtens, Koen Devos (n.d.). Marine bird abundance Report MSFD 2024. (2) Eric Stienen, Nicolas Vanermen (n.d.). Marine bird abundance: seabirds at sea. (3) Eric Stienen, Nicolas Vanermen (n.d.). Marine bird abundance: seabirds at sea Report MSFD 2024. (4) OSPAR assessment on Marine Bird Abundance.
- Keywords
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- Oceanographic geographical features
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Reporting INSPIRE
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Federal government
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- No conditions apply to access and use
- Other constraints
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- No limitations on public access.
- Use limitation
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No conditions apply to use.
- Classification
- Unclassified
- Spatial representation type
- Text, table
- Metadata language
- English
- Topic category
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- Oceans
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- gml32:beginPosition
- 2020-01-01
- Reference system identifier
- http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/4258
- Distribution format
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text/html
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Unknown
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application/vnd.ms-excel
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Unknown
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text/html
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Unknown
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Distributor
- Name
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text/html
- Version
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Unknown
- Transfer size
- 0.031881
- OnLine resource
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OSPAR assessment on Marine Bird Abundance
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WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
)
An HTTP link to download
Distributor
- Version
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Unknown
- Transfer size
- 0.659678
- OnLine resource
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Marine bird abundance Report MSFD 2024. Eric Stienen, Wouter Courtens, Koen Devos
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WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
)
An HTTP link to view information
Distributor
- Version
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Unknown
- Transfer size
- 0.426707
- OnLine resource
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Marine bird abundance: seabirds at sea Report MSFD 2024. Eric Stienen, Nicolas Vanermen
(
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
)
An HTTP link to view information
Distributor
- Name
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application/vnd.ms-excel
- Version
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Unknown
- OnLine resource
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Marine bird abundance: seabirds at sea. Eric Stienen, Nicolas Vanermen
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WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download
)
An HTTP link to download this dataset in Excel
- OnLine resource
- Digital Object Identifier (DOI) ( DOI )
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Explanation
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See the referenced specification
- Pass
- Yes
- Statement
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In the port of Zeebrugge, all nests containing one or more eggs are counted; data on other coastal breeding sites are (sometimes rough) estimates of the number of breeding pairs. At-sea abundance is assessed through ship-based counts following the standardized European Seabirds at Sea (ESAS) protocol (Tasker et al., 1984). Monitoring is carried out by the Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO): breeding-colony counts since 1997, ship-based at-sea counts since 1992 (partly through dedicated research projects, e.g. the WinMon offshore-windfarm-effects programme, 2005-present); contributing to the OSPAR Coordinated Environmental Monitoring Programme and the EU Birds Directive. In-situ nest counts (land/beach survey); ship-based visual seabird counts (ESAS protocol), from ships of opportunity and dedicated research surveys. Aggregation of nest/breeding-pair counts and at-sea count data; contribution to the OSPAR EcoQO assessment.
- File identifier
- bmdc.be:dataset:2922 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2026-09-21T15:30:14.057Z
- Metadata standard name
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Geographic information -- Metadata
- Metadata standard version
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ISO 19115:2003/19139
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