Abundance of waterbirds in the wintering season - pelagic feeders 2018 (HOLAS 2)
Short description
This core indicator evaluates the status of abundance of wintering waterbirds in the Baltic Sea region, here visualizedfor pelagic feeders. The wintering waterbirds are considered to reflect good status when at least 75% of the considered species deviate less than 30% downwards (species laying more than one egg per year) or 20% downwards (species laying one egg per year) from the baseline condition during the reference period 1991-2000. This dataset displays the result of the indicator in HELCOM Assessment Scale 3 (Division of the Baltic Sea into 17 sub-basins and further division into coastal and offshore areas). Attribute information: "HELCOM_ID" = ID of the HELCOM scale 3 assessment unit "country" = Country "Group area" = Name of the group area "level_2" = Name of scale 2 HELCOM assessment unit (subbasin) "level_3" = Name of scale 3 HELCOM assessment unit "Area (km2)" = Area of HELCOM assessment unit "coastal" = HELCOM ID of the coastal areas "open_sea" = Open sea assessment unit name "Abundance" = Assessed parameter "Threshold" = Threshold value "Wading feeders" = Results for the category "Wading feeders status" = Status of the indicator (“Achieve”, “Fail” or “Not assessed”) "Surface feeders" = Results for the category "Surface feeders status" = Status of the indicator (“Achieve”, “Fail” or “Not assessed”) "Pelagic feeders" = Results for the category "Pelagic feeders status" = Status of the indicator (“Achieve”, “Fail” or “Not assessed”) "Benthic feeders" = Results for the category "Benthic feeders status" = Status of the indicator (“Achieve”, “Fail” or “Not assessed”) "Grazing feeders" = Results for the category "Grazing feeders status" = Status of the indicator (“Achieve”, “Fail” or “Not assessed”) "AULEVEL" = Assessment unit level used for the indicator
Point of contact
HELCOM Secretariat
data@helcom.fi
Spatial extent
['7.526438', '33.796674', '52.535858', '66.424283']
Type
dataset
Metadata information
Identifier
Keywords
Oceanographic geographical features ; GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ;



MADS ; HOLAS2 2018 Core indicator ; Core indicator ;

Resource provider(s)
HELCOM Secretariat
data@helcom.fi

Lineage
The current evaluation is based on national monitoring data from coastal mid-winter counts (International Waterbird Census organized by Wetlands International) from all HELCOM Contracting Parties. Data for the years 1991-2015 were supplied by national dataholders following a data call in March 2016. Data sets consisted of site code, year, species and abundance (bird numbers). Data were supplied for a total of 1778 sites, but each species had different numbers of sites used in the analysis. We acknowledge the E-OBS dataset from the EU-FP6 project ENSEMBLES (http://ensembles-eu.metoffice.com) and the data providers in the ECA&D project (http://www.ecad.eu). The confidence of the evaluations is estimated to be intermediate. Additional information: http://www.helcom.fi/baltic-sea-trends/indicators/abundance-of-waterbirds-in-the-wintering-season/ Link to metadata of dataset used for indicator calculation: http://metadata.helcom.fi/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/a3c594e0-969e-4aee-b5a7-643c4b853de4