Description
Original provider: Randall Wells, Sarasota Dolphin Research Program Dataset credits: Sarasota Dolphin Research Program Abstract: The Sarasota Dolphin Research Program has been conducting research on bottlenose dolphins along the west coast of Florida since 1970. During the 1970s, sighting data came primarily from surveys searching for tagged dolphins, from radio-tracking, and from a few photographic identification efforts (Irvine et al. 1981; Wells et al. 1980). From 1980-1992, data came primarily from seasonal, systematic photographic identification surveys (Wells et al. 1987, Wells and Scott 1990, Scott et al. 1990, Wells 1991). Focused photographic identification surveys of the Gulf of Mexico waters offshore of Sarasota Bay, Florida, occurred during July 1997 through August 1998 (Fazioli et al. 2006). Building on these, biopsy darting and photo-ID occurred in the same waters during 1999-2000 (Sellas et al. 2000). Photographic identification surveys were conducted in and immediately offshore of Tampa Bay during 1988-1993 (Wells et al. 1996a). Photographic identification surveys were conducted in and immediately offshore of Lemon Bay and Charlotte Harbor during 1990-1994 (Wells et al. 1996b) and during 2000-2004 and 2006 (unpubl.). Photographic identification surveys were conducted in and immediately offshore of Pine Island Sound during 1996 (Wells et al. 1997) and during 2000-2004 and 2006 (unpubl.). Monthly photographic identification surveys have continued from 1993 to the present for Sarasota Bay and Gulf waters immediately offshore from Passage Key Inlet to Venice Inlet (Wells 2003); these have been supplemented through focal animal behavioral follows, some radio-tracking, and additional biopsy darting efforts (Owen et al. 2002). Data provided include sighting date, location code, latitude and longitude of first observation, and best estimate of number of dolphins present (following photo-analysis) for SDRP sightings in the Gulf of Mexico. More details on data collection and processing techniques are available in the SDRP manual available as a download from: www.sarasotadolphin.org. For more information on datasets, contact Randall Wells (rwells@mote.org). Supplemental information: The second part of the time is not provided and filled with 00.
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 6,396 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
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How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Wells, R. 2010. Sarasota Dolphin Research Program Bottlenose Sightings 1971-2009. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/563) on yyyy-mm-dd.
Rights
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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: 6cc99ecb-d01f-4934-8d84-e39db0459afb. 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/563 UTF-8 Interactive map |
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| FGDC Metadata | http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/563/xml UTF-8 XML |
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Geographic Coverage
Oceans
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [26.545, -83.217], North East [27.68, -82.177] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Scientific names are based on the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
| Species | Tursiops truncatus (Common Bottlenose Dolphin) |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 1971-02-18 / 2009-10-28 |
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Project Data
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| Title | Sarasota Dolphin Research Program Bottlenose Sightings 1971-2009 |
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| Funding | NA |
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| Study Extent | NA |
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Collection Data
| Collection Name | zd_563 |
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| Collection Identifier | zd_563 |
| 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_563 |