The assessment results for waterbirds for the HELCOM Third Holistic Assessment of the Ecosystem Health of the Baltic Sea (HOLAS 3) contains the following datasets: Integrated Biodiversity Status Assessment for Waterbirds, Integrated Biodiversity Status Assessment for surface-feeding birds, Integrated Biodiversity Status Assessment for pelagic-feeding birds, Integrated Biodiversity Status Assessment for benthic-feeding birds, Integrated Biodiversity Status Assessment for wading birds, and Integrated Biodiversity Status Assessment for grazing birds.

Status is shown in five categories based on the integrated assessment scores obtained in the tool. Biological Quality Ratios (BQR) above 0.6 correspond to good status.

The datasets were created using the BEAT tool.

https://github.com/helcomsecretariat/BEAT

Attribute information:

"Birds_ag" = Birds group area

"GroupName" = Birds group area name

"BQR" = Biological Quality Ratio

"Conf" = Confidence of the assessment (0-1, higher values mean higher confidence)

"ConfClass" = Confidence class

"Status" = Integrated status category (0-0.2 = not good (lowest score), 0.2-0.4 = not good (lower score), 0.4-0.6 = not good (low score), 0.6-0.8 = good (high score), 0.8-1.0 = good (highest score))

"ProportionSpecies" = Proportion of species in good status

"SAUlevel" = Spatial assessment unit ID in which the assessment status took place

"EcosystemComponent" = Ecosystem component assessed