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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Provenance
Publisher Blue-Cloud Data Discovery & Access service; EurOBIS - EMODnet Biology
Contributor Bureau Waardenburg bv - Consultancy for Ecology & Environment; Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel; Research and Technology Centre; Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ); International Council for the Exploration of the Sea; Vlaamse overheid; Beleidsdomein Omgeving; Instituut voor Natuur- en Bosonderzoek
Publication Year 2023
OpenAccess true
Contact blue-cloud-support(at)maris.nl
Representation
Discipline Marine Science
Spatial Coverage (-54.248W, 14.879S, 20.276E, 79.151N)
Temporal Coverage Begin 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z