Irish Otter Dataset
Citation
Biological Records Centre (2023). Irish Otter Dataset. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/wrnxel accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-12-14.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
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Biological Records Centre
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