Occurrence

Muskox Abundance

Latest version published by Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna on 26 August 2019 Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna
Publication date:
26 August 2019
License:
CC-BY 4.0

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Description

Locations and associated attributes of circumpolar Muskox studies. Attributes include animal count, population estimate, estimate error and associated report citation.

Data Records

The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 117 records.

This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.

Versions

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Carpenter M (2016): Muskox Abundance and Distribution Metadata. v1. No organisation. Dataset/Occurrence. http://geo.abds.is/ipt

Rights

Researchers should respect the following rights statement:

The publisher and rights holder of this work is Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 8d0f3ad4-df7e-4e7c-9a48-6c275fea3d28.  Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Participant Node Managers Committee.

Keywords

Occurrence; Abundance; Population Estimates; Muskox; Report; Study Areas; Observation; Occurrence; Abundance; Population Estimates; Muskox; Report; Study Areas

Contacts

Mallory Carpenter
  • Originator
n/a
Environment Canada
CA
Holmgrímur Helgason
  • Metadata Provider
Data Manager
CBMP
IS
http://www.cbmp.is
Marlene Doyle
  • Point Of Contact
Integrated Ecosystem Assessment Officer
Environment Canada
CA
CBMP Canada
  • User
n/a
Environment Canada
CA

Geographic Coverage

Circumpolar, Northern Hemisphere

Bounding Coordinates South West [53.87, -158], North East [83.49, -61.01]

Taxonomic Coverage

No Description available

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 1970-01-01 / 2016-01-01

Sampling Methods

Collection of reports pertaining to muskox abundance - common sampling methods include stratified strip transects, and observations.

Study Extent Circumpolar

Method step description:

  1. Relevant information from reports was collected into a geodatabase with information about study area, population estimates, and citation data such as authors and report titles.

Additional Metadata

Not marine, not harvested by iOBIS

Alternative Identifiers 8d0f3ad4-df7e-4e7c-9a48-6c275fea3d28
http://geo.abds.is/ipt/resource?r=muskox