University of Valencia cetacean surveys in the Spanish Mediterranean 2000-2003

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Description

Original provider: Patricia Gozalbes Aparicio, Marine Zoology Unit, University of Valencia Dataset credits: Juan Antonio Raga, Marine Zoology Unit, University of Valencia Abstract: The study area comprised the waters of the Valencia and Murcia Regions (central Spanish Mediterranean), from the coastline to between 30 to 80 km offshore, with depths ranging from 10 m to 2,800 m. Seasonal line transect surveys were conducted from June 2000 to March 2003. Transects followed a systematic saw-tooth pattern that covered the area representatively (Buckland et al. 2001). The fieldwork platform was a high-wing aircraft (“push-pull” Cessna 337) flying at an altitude of 152 m (500 ft) and at a groundspeed of approximately 166 km/h (90 knots). Two observers, positioned on each side of the aircraft, scanned the sea surface and a recorder took note of data reported: species, number of animals, location (obtained from a GPS), time, and environmental conditions, including Beaufort sea state. Environmental conditions were updated whenever changes occurred and GPS provided a continuous record of position (updated every few seconds). Surveys were conducted only in good sighting conditions of Beaufort sea state less than 3.

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 1,552 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:

Gozalbes, P. 2012. University of Valencia cetacean surveys in the Spanish Mediterranean 2000-2003. Version 1.0.0. Dataset published in OBIS-SEAMAP. https://doi.org/10.82144/57371c99.

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: 4cacb0be-46e8-446a-aa83-bb9e5bcc4d48. OBIS-SEAMAP publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Ocean Biodiversity Information System.

Keywords

Occurrence; Observation; Marine Biology; Visual sighting; Aircraft; Sightings; Occurrence

External data

The resource data is also available in other formats

OBIS-SEAMAP Dataset Page	https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/876 UTF-8 Interactive map
FGDC Metadata	https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/876/fgdc UTF-8 XML
EML Metadata	https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/876/eml UTF-8 XML

Contacts

Patricia Gozalbes

Owner ●
Originator ●
Point Of Contact

Primary contact

Instituto Cavanilles de Biodiversidad y Biología Evolutiva. Unidad de Zoología Marina

patricia.gozalbes@uv.es

OBIS-SEAMAP

Metadata Provider ●
Distributor

Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Duke University

A328 LSRC building

27708 Durham

seamap-contact@duke.edu

https://seamap.env.duke.edu

ACCOBAMS and WDCS

Originator

The Agreement on the Conservation of Cetaceans of the Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea and contiguous Atlantic Area (ACCOBAMS) and Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society (WDCS)

accobams@accobams.net

http://www.accobams.org/

Geographic Coverage

Oceans

Bounding Coordinates	South West [37.171, -1.552], North East [40.68, 1.482]

Taxonomic Coverage

Scientific names are based on the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).

Family	Delphinidae (Dolphins)
Species	Balaenoptera physalus (Fin whale), Caretta caretta (Loggerhead sea turtle), Delphinus delphis (Short-beaked common dolphin), Globicephala melas (Long-finned pilot whale), Grampus griseus (Risso's dolphin), Stenella coeruleoalba (Striped dolphin), Tursiops truncatus (Common bottlenose dolphin), Ziphius cavirostris (Cuvier's beaked whale)

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date	2000-02-22 / 2003-03-20

Project Data

No Description available

Title	University of Valencia cetacean surveys in the Spanish Mediterranean 2000-2003
Funding	NA

The personnel involved in the project:

Patricia Gozalbes

Owner

Sampling Methods

Study Extent	NA

Method step description:

Collection Data

Collection Name	zd_876
Collection Identifier	zd_876
Parent Collection Identifier	OBIS-SEAMAP

Bibliographic Citations

Gómez de Segura, A. 2006. Abundancia y distribución de cetáceos y tortugas marinas en el mediterráneo español. Tesis Doctoral. Facultad de Biología de la Universidad de Valencia: 148 pp.

Additional Metadata

marine, harvested by iOBIS.

Purpose	Seasonal aerial surveys were conducted in central Spanish Mediterranean waters from 2000 to 2003 to obtain information on the distribution of cetacean species with the aim of delimiting marine protected areas (MPAs) for their conservation.
Alternative Identifiers	https://doi.org/10.82144/57371c99
	https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/876
	https://www.gbif.org/dataset/4cacb0be-46e8-446a-aa83-bb9e5bcc4d48
	https://obis.org/dataset/c85d211b-8d87-4ab8-8269-6ce26d53ee94
	4cacb0be-46e8-446a-aa83-bb9e5bcc4d48
	https://ipt.env.duke.edu/resource?r=zd_876