Irish Otter Dataset

doi:10.15468/wrnxel

Irish Otter Dataset

Citation

Biological Records Centre (2023). Irish Otter Dataset. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/wrnxel accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-11-03.

Description

BRC records of Irish mammals. Confined to records of Otter (Lutra lutra) extracted from CHAPMAN, P.J. and CHAPMAN L.L. (1982) Otter Survey of Ireland, Vincent Wildlife Trust. These records were extracted in BRC from the above publication and are included here as a test dataset. The original records were professionally-collected as simple 10km square data on parts of the Irish grid. There is a notable geographic distribution of records by 50km square due to the collection methods that are described in the publication.

Purpose

Sampling Description

Method steps

Please refer to the publication.

Taxonomic Coverages

Geographic Coverages

Ireland. Coverage is patchy across the 50km squares of the Irish Grid.

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

originator
Biological Records Centre
Biological Records Centre, CEH Wallingford, Maclean Building, Crowmarsh Gifford
Wallingford
OX10 8BB
Oxfordshire
GB
Telephone: 01491 692 564
email: brc@ceh.ac.uk
homepage: http://www.brc.ac.uk/

metadata author
Biological Records Centre
Biological Records Centre, CEH Wallingford, Maclean Building, Crowmarsh Gifford
Wallingford
OX10 8BB
Oxfordshire
GB
Telephone: 01491 692 564
email: brc@ceh.ac.uk
homepage: http://www.brc.ac.uk/

distributor
NBN Atlas
27 Old Gloucester St, Holborn
London
WC1N 3AX
London
GB
email: admin@nbnatlas.org

David Roy
administrative point of contact
email: brc@ceh.ac.uk