Five-minute grid shapefile with marine bird density data off central California, CDAS data (1980-2001)
A shapefile of five minute grids that contains marine bird density data at-sea from the CDAS Central CA data set (1980-2001). It is a shapefile representing 5 minute x 5 minute latitude x longitude cells that house the densities (birds/sq.km.) of 40 species of marine birds during the Upwelling, Oceanic and Davidson Current Seasons. The number of marine birds seen in a cell was divided by the area sampled in the cell to estimate density. If a cell was surveyed more than once, densities were averaged and weighted according to effort. Cells that were surveyed but in which no birds were observed have densities of zero.
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| identifier | gov.noaa.nmfs.inport:39255 |
| issued | 2002-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00 |
| keyword |
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"Environmental Monitoring",
"avifauna",
"bird density at sea",
"density",
"marine bird",
"marine bird density",
"marine bird distribution",
"seabird",
"seabird density",
"Davidson Current Season",
"all seasons",
"anytime",
"ocean season",
"oceanic season",
"season",
"seasonal",
"upwelling season",
"year-round",
"Coastal ocean off central CA",
"NE Pacific",
"central California coast",
"national marine sanctuaries",
"ocean",
"DOC/NOAA/NOS/NCCOS > National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, National Ocean Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce",
"Central_cal_assess"
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| language |
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| license | https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ |
| modified | 2002-01-01T00:00:00.000+00:00 |
| publisher |
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| rights | otherRestrictions, unclassified |
| spatial | -120.583336,34.833333,-128.833328,39.083332 |
| temporal | 1980-01-01T00:00:00+00:00/2001-01-01T00:00:00+00:00 |
| title | Five-minute grid shapefile with marine bird density data off central California, CDAS data (1980-2001) |
