EDP Foz Tua: Terrestrial Vertebrates Baseline_studies (EIA) [2006]

The dataset contains records of terrestrial vertebrates (Amphibians, Reptiles and Macromammals) colected in the lower Tua river and included in the Baseline Studies of the Environmental Impact Assessment of the Foz Tua Hydroelectric Dam, promoted by EDP – Energias de Portugal, S.A. Data were collected between May and September 2006, during field visits to nine 5km-sections of the river Tua, between the mouth and the village of Cachão, 45 km upstream. The presence of taxa belonging to the target groups (individuals and/or evidence of occurrence, like scats or footprints) was recorded. Twenty-eight taxa were identified, 26 to the species rank (5 amphibians, 12 reptiles and 9 mammals), and two to the genus rank (1 amphibian and 1 mammal).

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Identification

Alternate Identifier

8918109e-0d4a-4cc9-af7b-8e49d31df942

Publication Date
2018-06-28
Title

EDP Foz Tua: Terrestrial Vertebrates Baseline_studies (EIA) [2006]

Abstract

The dataset contains records of terrestrial vertebrates (Amphibians, Reptiles and Macromammals) colected in the lower Tua river and included in the Baseline Studies of the Environmental Impact Assessment of the Foz Tua Hydroelectric Dam, promoted by EDP – Energias de Portugal, S.A. Data were collected between May and September 2006, during field visits to nine 5km-sections of the river Tua, between the mouth and the village of Cachão, 45 km upstream. The presence of taxa belonging to the target groups (individuals and/or evidence of occurrence, like scats or footprints) was recorded. Twenty-eight taxa were identified, 26 to the species rank (5 amphibians, 12 reptiles and 9 mammals), and two to the genus rank (1 amphibian and 1 mammal).

purpose

This dataset is part of a broader initiative whereby the company EDP - Energias de Portugal S.A. will made available biodiversity data collected during impact assessment and biological monitoring studies.

Dataset Language

ENGLISH

 
Dataset Creator
Dataset Creator
Dataset Creator
Metadata Provider
  Tiago Múrias (Researcher)

Campus Agrário de Vairão - Crasto

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CIBIO-InBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Universidade do Porto

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4485-661

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PORTUGAL

Associated Party
Dataset Contact
  EDP - Energia de Portugal - João Madeira (Manager)

Av. 24 de Julho, 12, Torre Nascente, Piso 4

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Lisbon

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1249-300 Lisboa

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PORTUGAL

Keywords (GBIF Dataset Type Vocabulary: http://rs.gbif.org/vocabulary/gbif/dataset_type.xml)

  • Occurrence; Observation; amphibians; reptiles; terrestrial macromammals; presence; transects; 5 km-sections

Geographic Coverage

Geographic Description

The data were collected in the last 45 km of the river Tua (Northeast Portugal), from the village of Cachão to its mouth, within the municipalities of Alijó, Carrazeda de Ansiães, Murça, Vila Flor and Mirandela

Bounding Box

West Bounding Coordinate

-7.464

East Bounding Coordinate

-7.155

North Bounding Coordinate

41.423

South Bounding Coordinate

41.211

Temporal Coverage

Range of Dates

Begin Date

2006-05-05

End Date

2006-09-15

Taxonomic Coverage

General Taxonomic Coverage

The taxonomic coverage of this dataset spans 1 phylum, 3 classes, 8 orders, 19 families, 26 species and 2 genus.

Taxonomic Classification

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Phylum

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Chordata

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Amphibia

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Reptilia

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Mammalia

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Anura

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Caudata

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Squamata

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Testudines

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Carnivora

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Lagomoprha

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Artiodactyla

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Rodentia

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Alytidae

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Salamandridae

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Ranidae

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Bufonidae

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Lacertidae

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Blanidae

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Scincidae

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Colubridae

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Lamprophiidae

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Geoemydidae

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Natricidae

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Phyllodactylidae

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Viverridae

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Mustelidae

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Leporidae

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Sciuridae

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Suidae

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Canidae

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Muridae

License Information

Intellectual Rights

This work is licensed under a

Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

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Additional Metadata

Metadata

GBIF Metadata Block

Date Stamp

2021-11-29T09:04:02Z

Citation

Múrias T, Ribeiro S B, Alves P C (2018). EDP Foz Tua: Terrestrial Vertebrates Baseline_studies (EIA) [2006]. EDP - Energias de Portugal. Sampling event dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/3yzo7e accessed via GBIF.org on 2021-11-29.

Logo URL
http://ipt.gbif.pt/ipt/logo.do?r=edp_sabor_herpetology_baseline
 

Project

• Project

Title

Baseline Studies to the Environmental Impact Assessment of the Foz Tua Hydroelectric Dam – Terrestrial Vertebrates (EIA)

Personnel

Individual Name

Given Name

Tiago

Surname

Múrias

Role

AUTHOR

Personnel

Individual Name

Given Name

Sérigo Bruno

Surname

Ribeiro

Role

AUTHOR

Personnel

Individual Name

Given Name

Paulo Célio

Surname

Alves

Role

PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Abstract

The dataset contains records of terrestrial vertebrates (Amphibians, Reptiles and Macromammals) colected in the lower Tua river and included in the Baseline Studies to the Environmental Impact Assessment of the Foz Tua Hydroelectric Dam, promoted by EDP – Energias de Portugal, S.A. Data were collected between May and September 2006, during field visits to nine 5km-sections of the river Tua, between the mouth and the village of Cachão, 45 km upstream. The occurrence of the target taxa was documented through 91 observations or evidence of occurrence inequivocaly established. In total, 28 taxa were identified, 26 to the species rank (5 amphibians, 12 reptiles and 9 mammals), and two to the genus rank (1 amphibian and 1 mammal).The most common species were Psammodromus algirus (Reptilia, squamata), with 12 occurrences and Martes foina (Mammalia, Carnivora) with 10 occurrences. Other relevant taxa were Tarentola mauritanica (Reptilia, Squamata), with 7 occurrences and Vulpes vulpes and Lutra lutra (Mammalia Carnivora) with 6 occurrences each.

Funding

The work was funded by EDP - Energias de Portugal, S.A.

Study Area Description

Descriptor

The study was conducted in part of the sub-basin of river Tua, prior to the construction and subsequent flooding of the lower part of this river’s valley by the Foz-Tua Hydroelectric Dam, along the lower valleys of river Tua.

Design Description

Description

The objective of the study was to document the occurrence of the target groups in the lower Tua valley in order to assess the environmental relevance of the study area to the fauna of terrestrial vertebrates within the scope of the EIA of the Foz-Tua dam.

 
 

Methods

• Method

Method Step

Description

To be completed

Sampling

Study Extent

The study was carried out in nine 5km-sections of the river Tua, which were visited several times between May and September 2006, from the mouth to the village of Cachão, 45 km upstream.

Sampling Description

Sampling was designed to cover an area of 5 km x 1 km (approximately) in each section of river considered. One to several 1.2 km transects per section were established, mostly along the deactivated river Tua railway, but also in the hillsides of the valley, covering both margins. Each transect was visited once between May and September 2006, but all efforts were made to ensure that each river section received at least one transect. Additional observations made in the same time frame outside the sampling transects were also included.



Each 1.2 km-transect was walked at a slow pace, and apart from the spontaneous observations, an effort was made to search all places in the path that had the appropriate habitat conditions (eg., holes, bushes, ponds, streams). The position of each species detected (either directly by observation or indirectly by examining scats and/or footprints) was recorded and georeferenced with a GPS (WGS84 datum).



Species identification were usually possible “in locus” in the case of observation events and for footprints, through appropriate field guides. In the case of the scats, whenever an unequivocal identification was not possible in the field, they were taken for laboratory for subsequent anatomic analysis (fur examination). Only the occurrence (ie, presence/absence) of the species in each point and transect was documented, that is, no effort was made to quantify the number of individuals or scats/footprints present for each observation.

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