Published September 5, 2025 | Version 1
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Non-indigenous species (NIS) historically reported for Portugal estuarine and marine waters.

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Description

This dataset lists observations of non-indigenous species (NIS) historically reported for Portugal estuarine and marine waters up to 2018, with a few records also in 2019 and 2020.

It is a result from the Master Thesis in Applied Ecology of Diana Rute Cunha Santos Lino Pinheiro, with the title “Assessment of the vulnerability of the Ria de Aveiro Natura 2000 site to the impacts of invasive alien marine species (2019)” (EN) /“Avaliação da vulnerabilidade do sítio rede natura 2000 da Ria de Aveiro aos impactos de espécies exóticas invasoras marinhas (2019)” (PT) under supervision of Dr. Heliana Teixeira and Dr. Ana Isabel Lillebø.

Methodological details on this dataset compilation are described in that thesis document; available through: https://ria.ua.pt/handle/10773/28308. 

Technical info

The dataset is provided as an excel file that contains the following 39 fields: 

occurrenceID, EntryCode, Version, acceptedNameUsage, acceptedNameUsageID, ScientificName, scientificNameAuthorship, scientificNameID, vernacularName, kingdom, phylum, subphylum_subdivision, class, order, family, genus, occurrenceStatus, date, year, eventDate, locality, verbatimLocality, decimalLatitude, decimalLongitude, SourceGeoRef, Habitat, degreeOfEstablishment, Abund, eventRemarks, type, SourceType, SourceOccur, Realm, NativeRange_Cont, NativeRange_subCont, SourceNativ, OtherObs, dbEntryProvider, basisOfRecord.

A READ ME explains how each field is used in the database.

Version 1 of the dataset contains 1516 entries for 121 non-indigenous species (NIS).

Sources of data are indicated as a reference list in a separate spreasheet.

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Additional details

Related works

Is supplement to
Thesis: https://ria.ua.pt/handle/10773/28308 (URL)

Funding

Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia
MOVIAS - MOdelling and MOnitoring the MOVement of Marine Invasive Alien Species – Advancing Predictability of Spread and Impacts 2022.08095.CEECIND/CP1720/CT0017

Dates

Created
2020-09-01
NIS occurrences in PT estuarine and marine waters