Green Balkans NGO's cetacean sightings in the Bulgarian Black Sea waters

Occurrence Observation
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Description

Original provider: Green Balkans NGO Dataset credits: Green Balkans NGO Abstract: Sightings from vessel surveys conducted in Bulgarian waters of the Black Sea over the period 2015-2022.

Data Records

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Dimitar, P. 2023. Green Balkans NGO's cetacean sightings in the Bulgarian Black Sea waters. Version 1.0.0. Dataset published in OBIS-SEAMAP. https://doi.org/10.82144/4e321191.

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: f5548d35-da5e-4afb-ae97-eeb73d32c5d5.  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; Marine Animal Survey; Marine mammals; Visual Sighting; Vessel; Occurrence

External data

The resource data is also available in other formats

OBIS-SEAMAP Dataset Page https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/2218 UTF-8 Interactive map
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EML Metadata https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/2218/eml UTF-8 XML

Contacts

Popov Dimitar
  • Owner
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
  • Primary contact
Green Balkans NGO
OBIS-SEAMAP
  • Metadata Provider
  • Distributor
Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Duke University
  • A328 LSRC building
27708 Durham
NC
US

Geographic Coverage

Western Pacific

Bounding Coordinates South West [41.995, 27.623], North East [43.732, 43.732]

Taxonomic Coverage

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

Family Delphinidae (Dolphins)
Subspecies Delphinus delphis ponticus (Black sea common dolphin), Phocoena phocoena relicta (Black sea harbor porpoise), Tursiops truncatus ponticus (Black sea bottlenose dolphin)

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 2016-01-27 / 2022-08-06

Project Data

No Description available

Title Green Balkans NGO's cetacean sightings in the Bulgarian Black Sea waters
Funding NA

The personnel involved in the project:

Popov Dimitar
  • Owner

Sampling Methods

NA

Study Extent NA

Method step description:

  1. NA

Collection Data

Collection Name zd_2218
Collection Identifier zd_2218
Parent Collection Identifier OBIS-SEAMAP

Bibliographic Citations

  1. Popov, D. and Meshkova, G. 2022. Cetacean sightings in Bulgarian Black Sea waters 2015-2022. Green Balkans NGO's Cetacean Monitoring and Conservation Program

Additional Metadata

marine, harvested by iOBIS. The surveys from 2017 onwards have been funded by OceanCare.

Purpose

Main purpose of dedicated surveys from 2017 onwards is to estimate abundance and density of cetaceans in Bulgarian territorial waters of the Black Sea.

Alternative Identifiers https://doi.org/10.82144/4e321191
https://www.gbif.org/dataset/f5548d35-da5e-4afb-ae97-eeb73d32c5d5
https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/2218
https://obis.org/dataset/8cb658a5-c318-46de-88d4-68c130b7454e
f5548d35-da5e-4afb-ae97-eeb73d32c5d5
https://ipt.env.duke.edu/resource?r=zd_2218