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. 2022 Jun;103(6):e3654.
doi: 10.1002/ecy.3654. Epub 2022 Apr 12.

MAMMALS IN PORTUGAL: A data set of terrestrial, volant, and marine mammal occurrences in Portugal

Clara Grilo  1   2 Beatriz C Afonso  3   4 Filipe Afonso  5 Marta Alexandre  1 Sara Aliácar  6 Ana Almeida  7 Ivan Prego Alonso  8 Francisco Álvares  9 Paulo Alves  10 Paulo Célio Alves  9   11 Pedro Alves  12   13 Anabela Amado  14 Vitor Amendoeira  15 Francisco Amorim  9   16 Guilherme da Silva Aparício  1 Ricardo Araújo  17 Fernando Ascensão  3 Margarida Augusto  18   19 Victor Bandeira  20 A Márcia Barbosa  21 Soraia Barbosa  9   22 Sérgio Barbosa  19 Silvia Barreiro  23 Paulo Barros  24   25 Tânia Barros  20 Filomena Barros  26 Mafalda Basto  3 Joana Bernardino  9 Sara Bicho  8 Luis Eduardo Biedma  27 Marta Borges  15 Luis Braz  24   25 José Carlos Brito  9 Tiago Brito  28 João Alexandre Cabral  24   25 Javier Calzada  27 Cláudia Camarinha  3 Mafalda Carapuço  29 Paulo Cardoso  18 Mário Carmo  30 Carlos Carrapato  31 Maílis da Silva Carrilho  1 Diogo Filipe T C S Carvalho  24   25 Filipe Carvalho  9   32 João Carvalho  20 Diana Castro  9 Guilherme Castro  20 Joana Castro  33   34 Luis Roma Castro  31 Filipe Xavier Catry  35 Ana M Cerveira  1   7 André Cid  33 Rafael Clarke  8 Conceição Conde  31 José Conde  36 Jorge Costa  37 Mafalda Costa  38 Pedro Costa  39 Cristina Costa  31 André Pedro do Couto  6 João Craveiro  40 Marta Dias  3 Sofia Dias  8 Beatriz Duarte  7 Virginia Duro  25 Cláudia Encarnação  41   42 Sofia Eufrázio  43 António Fael  18   44 João Salvador Falé  26 Sandra Faria  25 Carlos Fernandes  3   45 Margarida Fernandes  31 Gonçalo Ferrão da Costa  18   20 Clara Ferreira  9   46 Diogo F Ferreira  9   47   48 Eduardo Ferreira  20 Joaquim Pedro Ferreira  20 João Ferreira  49 Diana Ferreira  7 Carlos Fonseca  20   50 Inês Fontes  4 Ricardo Fragoso  31 Claudia Franco  8 Tamira Freitas  51 Sofia I Gabriel  1   20 Rory Gibb  47 Patricia Gil  9 Carla Patricia Jorge Gomes  24   25 Pedro Horta  9   11   16   52 Pedro Gomes  20 Verónica Gomes  9 Filipa Grilo  3 Américo Guedes  53 Filipa Guilherme  9 Iván Gutiérrez  53 Henry Harper  33 José M Herrera  23 Dário Hipólito  20   54 Samuel Infante  10 José Jesus  51 Kate E Jones  47 Marina I Laborde  33   34 Luís Lamas de Oliveira  25 Inês Leitão  5 Rita Lemos  12 Cátia Lima  20 Paloma Linck  20 Hugo Lopes  26 Susana Lopes  9 Adrià López-Baucells  55 Armando Loureiro  31 Filipa Loureiro  3 Rui Lourenço  56 Sofia Lourenço  57 Paula Lucas  26 Ana Magalhães  20 Cristina Maldonado  5 Fabio Marcolin  58 Sara Marques  20 J Tiago Marques  40 Carina Marques  59   60 Paulo Marques  61 Pedro Caetano Marrecas  8 Frederico Martins  40 Raquel Martins  20 Miguel Mascarenhas  18 Vanessa A Mata  9 Ana Rita Mateus  5 Milene Matos  62   63 Denis Medinas  64 Tiago Mendes  40 Gabriel Mendes  65 Frederico Mestre  23   66 Catarina Milhinhas  40 António Mira  40 Rita I Monarca  1 Norberto Monteiro  67 Barbara Monteiro  68 Pedro Monterroso  9 Mónia Nakamura  9   11 Nuno Negrões  20 Eva K Nóbrega  69 Miguel Nóvoa  53   70 Manuel Nunes  63 Nuno Jardim Nunes  71 Flávio Oliveira  1 José Miguel Oliveira  72 Jorge M Palmeirim  3 João Pargana  31 Anabela Paula  18 Joana Paupério  9 Nuno M Pedroso  43 Guilherme Pereira  3 Pedro F Pereira  18   56 José Pereira  53 Maria João Ramos Pereira  20   73 Francisco Petrucci-Fonseca  3 Miguel Pimenta  31 Sara Pinto  53   70 Nuno Pinto  20   62 Rosa Pires  74 Ricardo Pita  75 Carlos Pontes  76 Marisa Quaresma  31 João Queirós  9 Luís Queirós  53 Ana Rainho  3 Maria da Graça Ramalhinho  1   77 Patrícia Ramalho  41   78 Helena Raposeira  9   11   16   52 Francisco Rasteiro  79 Hugo Rebelo  9   16 Frederico Tátá Regala  80 Dyana Reto  5 Sérgio Bruno Ribeiro  81 Helena Rio-Maior  9 Ricardo Rocha  9   16 Rita Gomes Rocha  9 Luísa Rodrigues  31 Jacinto Román  82 Sara Roque  3   5 Luís Miguel Rosalino  3 Inês T do Rosário  3 Mariana Rossa  20 Danilo Russo  83 Pedro Sá  62   63 Helena Sabino-Marques  42 Vânia Salgueiro  39 Helena Santos  9   16 Joana Santos  18 João P V Santos  20   53   84 Nuno Santos  9 Sara Santos  75 Carlos Pedro Santos  31 Margarida Santos-Reis  3 Ana Serronha  9 Pablo Sierra  85 Bruno Silva  23 Carla S G M Silva  86 Clara Silva  8 Diogo Silva  20 Luís P da Silva  9 Ricardo Silva  1 Carmen Silva  87 Flavio Manoel Rodrigues da Silva Júnior  88 Pedro Sousa  9 Diana Sousa-Guedes  20   21 Giulia Spadoni  89 Joaquim T Tapisso  1 Daniela Teixeira  20 Sérgio Teixeira  51   90   91 Nuno Teixeira  92 Rita T Torres  20 Paulo Travassos  24   25 Hélia Vale-Gonçalves  24   25 Nuno Cidraes-Vieira  93 Sophie von Merten  1 Maria da Luz Mathias  1
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MAMMALS IN PORTUGAL: A data set of terrestrial, volant, and marine mammal occurrences in Portugal

Clara Grilo et al. Ecology. 2022 Jun.

Abstract

Mammals are threatened worldwide, with ~26% of all species being included in the IUCN threatened categories. This overall pattern is primarily associated with habitat loss or degradation, and human persecution for terrestrial mammals, and pollution, open net fishing, climate change, and prey depletion for marine mammals. Mammals play a key role in maintaining ecosystems functionality and resilience, and therefore information on their distribution is crucial to delineate and support conservation actions. MAMMALS IN PORTUGAL is a publicly available data set compiling unpublished georeferenced occurrence records of 92 terrestrial, volant, and marine mammals in mainland Portugal and archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira that includes 105,026 data entries between 1873 and 2021 (72% of the data occurring in 2000 and 2021). The methods used to collect the data were: live observations/captures (43%), sign surveys (35%), camera trapping (16%), bioacoustics surveys (4%) and radiotracking, and inquiries that represent less than 1% of the records. The data set includes 13 types of records: (1) burrows | soil mounds | tunnel, (2) capture, (3) colony, (4) dead animal | hair | skulls | jaws, (5) genetic confirmation, (6) inquiries, (7) observation of live animal (8), observation in shelters, (9) photo trapping | video, (10) predators diet | pellets | pine cones/nuts, (11) scat | track | ditch, (12) telemetry and (13) vocalization | echolocation. The spatial uncertainty of most records ranges between 0 and 100 m (76%). Rodentia (n =31,573) has the highest number of records followed by Chiroptera (n = 18,857), Carnivora (n = 18,594), Lagomorpha (n = 17,496), Cetartiodactyla (n = 11,568) and Eulipotyphla (n = 7008). The data set includes records of species classified by the IUCN as threatened (e.g., Oryctolagus cuniculus [n = 12,159], Monachus monachus [n = 1,512], and Lynx pardinus [n = 197]). We believe that this data set may stimulate the publication of other European countries data sets that would certainly contribute to ecology and conservation-related research, and therefore assisting on the development of more accurate and tailored conservation management strategies for each species. There are no copyright restrictions; please cite this data paper when the data are used in publications.

Keywords: 1873-2021; Carnivora; Cetartiodactyla; Chiroptera; Eulipotyphla; Europe; Iberian Peninsula; Lagomorpha; Rodentia; species distribution.

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