Biodiversity data of the Banc D'Arguin National Park. Information for education, conservation and management.

Ester Serrao

doi:10.25607/krhjji

Biodiversity data of the Banc D'Arguin National Park. Information for education, conservation and management.

Citation

Serrao E, Earl C (2024). Biodiversity data of the Banc D'Arguin National Park. Information for education, conservation and management.. Version 2.3. OBIS Secretariat. Occurrence dataset. https://doi.org/10.25607/krhjji accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-11-09.

Description

The Parc National du Banc d′Arguin (PNBA, comprising 12,000 km2 of which half are marine) is the largest marine protected area in western Africa, recognized for its unique universal value by the UNESCO’s Marine World Heritage Programme. It is a globally significant hotspot for blue carbon, as the third largest area of seagrass and the third largest carbon stock among these UNESCO sites. PNBA is also a Ramsar Wetland of international importance and a WWF “Gift to the Earth”, and is the most important habitat of the Western Atlantic for nesting birds and Palaearctic migratory waders. The PNBA’s extensive marine vegetation provides major shelter, feeding and/or breeding sites for a wide range of marine species, including seabirds, turtles, endangered elasmobranchs and many other species of conservation and/or commercial interest (adapted from https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2021.e01890)

Purpose

These data were made accessible through UNESCO's eDNA Expeditions project to mobilize available marine species and occurrence datasets from World Heritage Sites.

Sampling Description

Method steps

See Github Project and R Notebook for dataset construction methods

Additional info

marine, harvested by iOBIS

Taxonomic Coverages

Fishes

Agnatha
rank: Superclass
Chondrichthyes
rank: unranked
Osteichthyes
rank: unranked

Geographic Coverages

Banc d'Arguin National Park

Bibliographic Citations

Project Marafrica: a network monitoring, integrating and assessing marine biodiversity data along the west africa to understand, predict and mitigate climatic / oceanographic changes. Aga-Khan Foundation and FCT-Portugal and Project STM - Survi des Tortues Marines. MAVA Foundation and PRCM. 2023. Data Downloaded 2024-04-09. - https://www.marafrica.net/pnba/

Contacts

Ester Serrao
originator
Universidade do Algarve

Chandra Earl
metadata author
position: eDNA Scientific Officer
UNESCO
email: c.earl@unesco.org

Chandra Earl
processor
position: eDNA Scientific Officer
UNESCO
email: c.earl@unesco.org

OBIS Secretariat
administrative point of contact
position: Secretariat
OBIS
email: helpdesk@obis.org