Population Sizes of Seabirds breeding in Scottish Special Protection Areas

The project has collated existing data on SPA populations breeding around the Scottish coast. The project utilised data from JNCC, SNH, RSPB and other sources. The purpose of the project was to provide a collated source of information for renewable dev


3 Data Availability

Incomplete datasets are frequent within the SMP, probably as a result of factors such as data being collected by volunteer observers, and sites being remote, and therefore difficult and costly to access. An index of 'data availability' has been drawn up to allow easy comparison between sites, and should give an indication of the temporal and (for SPAs with multiple count sites) the geographical coverage at each SPA. The index in no way comments on the reliability of the data held for any SPA. The index produces an overall score (out of ten) based upon a product (multiplication) of scores for temporal and multi-species coverage (the light grey columns in the table) and geographical coverage (the dark grey columns).

Table

Table

Table

Contact

Back to top