SHARK - Regional marine environmental monitoring and monitoring projects of Epibenthos in Sweden since 1994

doi:10.15468/avttsr

SHARK - Regional marine environmental monitoring and monitoring projects of Epibenthos in Sweden since 1994

Citation

Swedish county administration boards, Swedish municipalities, Swedish coalitions of water conservation, Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute et.al. (2023). SHARK - Regional marine environmental monitoring and monitoring projects of Epibenthos in Sweden since 1994. https://doi.org/10.15468/avttsr accessed via GBIF.org on 2025-10-13.

Description

The monitoring is financed by the Swedish county administration boards, Swedish municipalities and Swedish coalitions of water conservation.

Recipient control data financed by companies are also included. The data is stored in the database SHARK, hosted and maintained by the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute.

The Epibenthos monitoring programs and projects studies hard and soft bottoms from the surface down to 10-20 meters.

Data is collected in transects or squares with help of divers.

Species abundances are determined directly by the divers or photographs/video are taken and analyzed later.

Field notes are in Swedish.

Information about the program and the methods are available in Swedish at the website of Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management, https://www.havochvatten.se/overvakning-och-uppfoljning/miljoovervakning/organisation-och-programomraden/miljoovervakningens-programomrade-kust-och-hav/delprogram-vegetationskladda-bottnar.html, https://www.havochvatten.se/vagledning-foreskrifter-och-lagar/vagledningar/ovriga-vagledningar/undersokningstyper-for-miljoovervakning/undersokningstyper/vegetationskladda-bottnar-ostkust.html,https://www.havochvatten.se/vagledning-foreskrifter-och-lagar/vagledningar/ovriga-vagledningar/undersokningstyper-for-miljoovervakning/undersokningstyper/vegetationskladda-bottnar-vastkust.html

Sampling Description

Study Extent

Monitoring program

Sampling

The epibenthos monitoring programs studies hard and soft bottoms from the surface down to 10-20 meters.

Method steps

Information about the program and the methods are available in Swedish at the website of Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management, https://www.havochvatten.se/overvakning-och-uppfoljning/miljoovervakning/organisation-och-programomraden/miljoovervakningens-programomrade-kust-och-hav/delprogram-vegetationskladda-bottnar.html, https://www.havochvatten.se/vagledning-foreskrifter-och-lagar/vagledningar/ovriga-vagledningar/undersokningstyper-for-miljoovervakning/undersokningstyper/vegetationskladda-bottnar-ostkust.html,https://www.havochvatten.se/vagledning-foreskrifter-och-lagar/vagledningar/ovriga-vagledningar/undersokningstyper-for-miljoovervakning/undersokningstyper/vegetationskladda-bottnar-vastkust.html

Taxonomic Coverages

Geographic Coverages

Data collected within the following marine ecoregions using coordinate system WGS84: http://marineregions.org/mrgid/2401, http://marineregions.org/mrgid/2374, http://marineregions.org/mrgid/2379

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

SHARK
originator
position: Data manager
Swedish Meterological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI)
SE
email: shark@smhi.se

SHARK
metadata author
position: Data manager
Swedish Meterological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI)
SE
email: shark@smhi.se

SHARK
administrative point of contact
position: Data manager
Swedish Meterological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI)
SE
email: shark@smhi.se