NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
North Sea Seabird Conservation Expert Estimates
How certain are experts about protecting seabirds?
Judgements from an exercise with six experts and fitted distribution parameters; incomplete values from one expert were excluded from final fitting. These are estimates of possible effects, not observed bird counts.
“How much agreement is there about measures to help seabirds survive and breed? Explore the ranges behind expert estimates.”
Fixed study · released 2026-09-17 · national catalog entry 09-22
UK North Sea breeding populations · March 2023 elicitation
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Use the publisher's citation: Frantsuzova et al. (2026), full dataset title, NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre, DOI 10.5285/8847e78c-8778-474b-b2a2-3931beeb0e1b; retain the OGL v3 link and identify modifications.
Read the supporting document before interpreting scenario codes, species, survival/productivity units, quantiles, and fitted bounds. Do not present expert beliefs as measured effects or attempt to identify anonymised experts. Distribution assumptions do not establish effectiveness or applicability everywhere.