Project OPKK Monitoring Bats - occurrence data collected for the development of monitoring programs 1995-2023

Dataset type

This dataset that contains primary occurrence data for species.

Description

Within the framework of the Project “Monitoring Program development for species and habitat types of EU interest” within the Operational Programme “Competitiveness and Cohesion” (OPCC) project “Development of Monitoring Systems for Species and Habitat Types” Lot 4: Development of a monitoring program for bats with capacity building of stakeholders in the monitoring and reporting system“ old data were collected and validated and new data on the abundance and distribution of bats were gathered. New data were collected using methods described in the proposed monitoring program, aiming to test adequacy for long-term monitoring of species to evaluate its conservation status. This dataset includes occurrences of bats from 1995 till 2023.

Geographic Description

Republic of Croatia

Data quality

Key Experts validated all bat occurrence data.

Methods

Collection and validation of literature data included evaluation of previously used data for SCS assessment and additional bat observations from 91 expert studies, reports, scientific papers and other sources. Field surveys were conducted to collect additional data and test proposed monitoring methods at 386 sites from January 2022 until July 2023. Key Experts validated all bat occurrence data. All data were standardized in unique xlsx table.

Type of content

Includes: Point occurrence data.

Citation

MEPGT-IEN (2024). Project OPKK Monitoring Bats - occurrence data collected for the development of monitoring programs 1995-2023. Version 1.0. Ministry of Environmental Protection and Green Transition. Occurrence dataset. https://ipt-bioatlas.bioportal.hr/resource?r=sismisi_opkk_javnost_upload&v=1.0

Rights

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.

Digitised records

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