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)
Data Records
The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 3,100 records.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Versions
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
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
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is OBIS Secretariat. To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: e5c183ea-9aab-4fd1-a07b-3fbe18fcbe4c. OBIS Secretariat publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Ocean Biodiversity Information System.
Keywords
Occurrence
Contacts
- Originator
Geographic Coverage
Banc d'Arguin National Park
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [19.342, -16.752], North East [20.834, -15.963] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Fishes
| Superclass | Agnatha |
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| Unranked | Chondrichthyes, Osteichthyes |
Sampling Methods
No Description available
Method step description:
- See Github Project and R Notebook for dataset construction methods
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/
Additional Metadata
marine, harvested by iOBIS
| Purpose | These data were made accessible through UNESCO's eDNA Expeditions project to mobilize available marine species and occurrence datasets from World Heritage Sites. |
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| Alternative Identifiers | 10.25607/krhjji |
| e5c183ea-9aab-4fd1-a07b-3fbe18fcbe4c | |
| https://ipt.obis.org/secretariat/resource?r=banc-darguin-ccmar-2023 |