Description
Original provider: Sea Mammal Research Unit, University of St. Andrews Dataset credits: Sea Mammal Research Unit, University of St. Andrews Abstract: Shipboard and aerial line transect surveys were conducted of the North Sea and adhacent waters to provide accurate and avundance estimates of small cetaceans. Known as the SCANS survey, it was conducted in summer 1994. Shipboard transects covered 20,000 km and aerial transects covered 7000km. Harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena), white-beaked dolphin (Lagenorhynchus albirostris) and minke whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) dominated the data.
Data Records
The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 2,558 records.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Versions
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Lacey, C. 2015. SCANS I cetacean sightings 1994. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1183) on yyyy-mm-dd.
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is OBIS-SEAMAP. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 7e1cc034-8644-4c76-916d-c911232dc835. OBIS-SEAMAP publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Ocean Biodiversity Information System.
Keywords
Occurrence,Marine Animal Survey,Marine Biology,Marine mammals,Visual Sighting,Vessel; Observation; Occurrence
External data
The resource data is also available in other formats
| OBIS-SEAMAP Dataset Page | http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1183 UTF-8 Interactive map |
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| FGDC Metadata | http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1183/xml UTF-8 XML |
Contacts
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Geographic Coverage
Oceans
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [48.327, -11.391], North East [61.931, 12.518] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Scientific names are based on the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
| Order | Cetacea (cetaceans), Cetacea (cetaceans), Cetacea (cetaceans), Cetacea (cetaceans), Cetacea (cetaceans) |
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| Family | Delphinidae (dolphins), Delphinidae (dolphins) |
| Genus | Lagenorhynchus (white-beaked dolphins), Globicephala (pilot whales) |
| Species | Tursiops truncatus (Common Bottlenose Dolphin), Delphinus delphis (Short-beaked Common Dolphin), Balaenoptera physalus (Fin Whale), Phocoena phocoena (Harbor Porpoise), Megaptera novaeangliae (Humpback Whale), Orcinus orca (Killer Whale), Balaenoptera acutorostrata (Minke Whale), Grampus griseus (Risso's Dolphin), Stenella coeruleoalba (Striped Dolphin), Physeter macrocephalus (Sperm Whale), Lagenorhynchus albirostris (White-beaked Dolphin), Lagenorhynchus acutus (Atlantic White-sided Dolphin) |
Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 1994-06-27 / 1994-07-25 |
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Project Data
No Description available
| Title | SCANS I cetacean sightings 1994 |
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| Funding | NA |
The personnel involved in the project:
- Owner
Sampling Methods
NA
| Study Extent | NA |
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Method step description:
- NA
Collection Data
| Collection Name | zd_1183 |
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| Collection Identifier | zd_1183 |
| Parent Collection Identifier | OBIS-SEAMAP |
Additional Metadata
marine, harvested by iOBIS
| Purpose | Not available |
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| Alternative Identifiers | http://ipt.env.duke.edu/resource?r=zd_1183 |