Adult female elephant seals Post-Breeding 2015 (aggregated per 1-degree cell)

Occurrence Observation
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Description

Original provider: Christophe Guinet / Dan Costa Dataset credits: Data provider Weanling Northern Elephan Seals Originating data center <a href='http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/' target='_blank'>Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool (STAT)</a> This dataset is a summarized representation of the telemetry locations aggregated per species per 1-degree cell.

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 104 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:

Robinson P. 2024. Adult female elephant seals Post-Breeding 2015. 1.0.0. Dataset published in OBIS-SEAMAP and originated from Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool (STAT; http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/index.shtml?project_id=1080). https://doi.org/10.82144/eee9264a.

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: df6c58df-6c20-4395-98a6-63af7e83e307.  OBIS-SEAMAP publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Ocean Biodiversity Information System.

Keywords

Marine Biology; Telemetry; Tagged animal; Occurrence; Observation

External data

The resource data is also available in other formats

OBIS-SEAMAP Dataset Page https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1251 UTF-8 Interactive map
FGDC Metadata https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1251/fgdc UTF-8 XML
EML Metadata https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1251/eml UTF-8 XML
STAT Project Page http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/index.shtml?project_id=1080 UTF-8 Original web site

Contacts

Patrick Robinson
  • Owner
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
  • Primary contact
Costa Lab Mammals
OBIS-SEAMAP
  • Metadata Provider
  • Distributor
Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Duke University
  • A328 LSRC building
27708 Durham
NC
US
Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool

Geographic Coverage

Oceans

Bounding Coordinates South West [36.943, -157.815], North East [51.225, -122.323]

Taxonomic Coverage

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

Species Mirounga angustirostris (Northern elephant seal)

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 2015-02-27 / 2015-05-24

Project Data

No Description available

Title Adult female elephant seals Post-Breeding 2015
Funding NA

The personnel involved in the project:

Patrick Robinson
  • Owner

Sampling Methods

NA

Study Extent NA

Method step description:

  1. NA

Collection Data

Collection Name zd_1251_1deg
Collection Identifier zd_1251_1deg
Parent Collection Identifier OBIS-SEAMAP

Bibliographic Citations

  1. Coyne, M. S., and B. J. Godley. 2005. Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool (STAT): an integrated system for archiving, analyzing and mapping animal tracking data. Marine Ecology Progress Series: Vol. 301: 1-7. https://www.int-res.com/abstracts/meps/v301/meps301001