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

• Author(s): Grilo, Clara ; Afonso, Beatriz C. ; Afonso, Filipe ; Alexandre, Marta ; Aliácar, Sara ; Almeida, Ana ; Alonso, Ivan Prego ; Álvares, Francisco ; Alves, Paulo ; Alves, Paulo Célio ; Alves, Pedro ; Jones, Kate E. ; Laborde, Marina I. ; de Oliveira, Luís Lamas ; Leitão, Inês ; Lemos, Rita ; Lima, Cátia ; Linck, Paloma ; Lopes, Hugo ; Lopes, Susana ; López‐Baucells, Adrià ; Amado, Anabela ; Loureiro, Armando ; Loureiro, Filipa ; Lourenço, Rui ; Lourenço, Sofia ; Lucas, Paula ; Magalhães, Ana ; Maldonado, Cristina ; Marcolin, Fabio ; Marques, Sara ; Marques, J. Tiago ; Amendoeira, Vitor ; Marques, Carina ; Marques, Paulo ; Marrecas, Pedro Caetano ; Martins, Frederico ; Martins, Raquel ; Mascarenhas, Miguel ; Mata, Vanessa A. ; Mateus, Ana Rita ; Matos, Milene ; Medinas, Denis ; Amorim, Francisco ; Mendes, Tiago ; Mendes, Gabriel ; Mestre, Frederico ; Milhinhas, Catarina ; Mira, António ; Monarca, Rita I. ; Monteiro, Norberto ; Monteiro, Barbara ; Monterroso, Pedro ; Nakamura, Mónia ; da Silva Aparício, Guilherme ; Negrões, Nuno ; Nóbrega, Eva K. ; Nóvoa, Miguel ; Nunes, Manuel ; Nunes, Nuno Jardim ; Oliveira, Flávio ; Oliveira, José Miguel ; Palmeirim, Jorge M. ; Pargana, João ; Paula, Anabela ; Araújo, Ricardo ; Paupério, Joana ; Pedroso, Nuno M. ; Pereira, Guilherme ; Pereira, Pedro F. ; Pereira, José ; Pereira, Maria João Ramos ; Petrucci‐Fonseca, Francisco ; Pimenta, Miguel ; Pinto, Sara ; Pinto, Nuno ; Ascensão, Fernando ; Pires, Rosa ; Pita, Ricardo ; Pontes, Carlos ; Quaresma, Marisa ; Queirós, João ; Queirós, Luís ; Rainho, Ana ; da Graça Ramalhinho, Maria ; Ramalho, Patrícia ; Raposeira, Helena ; Augusto, Margarida ; Rasteiro, Francisco ; Rebelo, Hugo ; Regala, Frederico Tátá ; Reto, Dyana ; Ribeiro, Sérgio Bruno ; Rio‐Maior, Helena ; Rocha, Ricardo ; Rocha, Rita Gomes ; Rodrigues, Luísa ; Román, Jacinto ; Bandeira, Victor ; Roque, Sara ; Rosalino, Luís Miguel ; do Rosário, Inês T. ; Rossa, Mariana ; Russo, Danilo ; Sá, Pedro ; Sabino‐Marques, Helena ; Salgueiro, Vânia ; Santos, Helena ; Santos, Joana ; Barbosa, A. Márcia ; Santos, João P. V. ; Santos, Nuno ; Santos, Sara ; Santos, Carlos Pedro ; Santos‐Reis, Margarida ; Serronha, Ana ; Sierra, Pablo ; Silva, Bruno ; Silva, Carla S. G. M. ; Silva, Clara ; Barbosa, Soraia ; Silva, Diogo ; da Silva, Luís P. ; Silva, Ricardo ; Silva, Carmen ; da Silva Júnior, Flavio Manoel Rodrigues ; Sousa, Pedro ; Sousa‐Guedes, Diana ; Spadoni, Giulia ; Tapisso, Joaquim T. ; Teixeira, Daniela ; Barbosa, Sérgio ; Teixeira, Sérgio ; Teixeira, Nuno ; Torres, Rita T. ; Travassos, Paulo ; Vale‐Gonçalves, Hélia ; Cidraes‐Vieira, Nuno ; von Merten, Sophie ; da Luz Mathias, Maria ; Barreiro, Silvia ; Barros, Paulo ; Barros, Tânia ; Barros, Filomena ; Basto, Mafalda ; Bernardino, Joana ; Bicho, Sara ; Biedma, Luis Eduardo ; Borges, Marta ; Braz, Luis ; Brito, José Carlos ; Brito, Tiago ; Cabral, João Alexandre ; Calzada, Javier ; Camarinha, Cláudia ; Carapuço, Mafalda ; Cardoso, Paulo ; Carmo, Mário ; Carrapato, Carlos ; da Silva Carrilho, Maílis ; Carvalho, Diogo Filipe T. C. S. ; Carvalho, Filipe ; Carvalho, João ; Castro, Diana ; Castro, Guilherme ; Castro, Joana ; Castro, Luis Roma ; Catry, Filipe Xavier ; Cerveira, Ana M. ; Cid, André ; Clarke, Rafael ; Conde, Conceição ; Conde, José ; Costa, Jorge ; Costa, Mafalda ; Costa, Pedro ; Costa, Cristina ; do Couto, André Pedro ; Craveiro, João ; Dias, Marta ; Dias, Sofia ; Duarte, Beatriz ; Duro, Virginia ; Encarnação, Cláudia ; Eufrázio, Sofia ; Fael, António ; Falé, João Salvador ; Faria, Sandra ; Fernandes, Carlos ; Fernandes, Margarida ; da Costa, Gonçalo Ferrão ; Ferreira, Clara ; Ferreira, Diogo F. ; Ferreira, Eduardo ; Ferreira, Joaquim Pedro ; Ferreira, João ; Ferreira, Diana ; Fonseca, Carlos ; Fontes, Inês ; Fragoso, Ricardo ; Franco, Claudia ; Freitas, Tamira ; Gabriel, Sofia I. ; Gibb, Rory ; Gil, Patricia ; Gomes, Carla Patricia Jorge ; Horta, Pedro ; Gomes, Pedro ; Gomes, Verónica ; Grilo, Filipa ; Guedes, Américo ; Guilherme, Filipa ; Gutiérrez, Iván ; Harper, Henry ; Herrera, José M. ; Hipólito, Dário ; Infante, Samuel ; Jesus, José
• Date: 2022
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.13/5335
• Origin: DigitUMa - Repositório da Universidade da Madeira
• Subject(s): 1873–2021; Carnivora; Cetartiodactyla; Chiroptera; Eulipotyphla; Europe; Iberian Peninsula; Lagomorpha; Rodentia; Species distribution; .; Faculdade de Ciências da Vida
• Document Type: Journal article
• Language: English
• Contributor(s): DigitUMa

Description

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 mam mals, and pollution, open net fishing, climate change, and prey depletion for marine mammals. Mammals play a key role in maintaining ecosystems func tionality and resilience, and therefore information on their distribution is cru cial 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 mam mals in mainland Portugal and archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira that includes 105,026 data entries between 1873 and 2021 (72% of the data occur ring in 2000 and 2021). The methods used to collect the data were: live obser vations/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 j soil mounds j tunnel, (2) capture, (3) colony, (4) dead animal j hair j skulls j jaws, (5) genetic confirmation, (6) inquiries, (7) observation of live animal (8), observation in shelters, (9) photo trapping j video, (10) predators diet j pellets j pine cones/nuts, (11) scat j track j ditch, (12) telemetry and (13) vocalization j 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 contrib ute 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.