Baltic Porpoise Acoustic Surveys 01-02

Occurrence Observation
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Description

Original provider: International Fund for Animal Welfare Dataset credits: International Fund for Animal Welfare Abstract: Boat-based acoustic and visual surveys for harbor porpoises (<i>Phocoena phocoena</i>) were conducted during the summers of 2001 and 2002 in order to investigate their distribution and relative abundance in the Baltic Sea, and to compare the results with the adjacent Kiel and Mecklenburg Bights and the Little Belt.

Data Records

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Moscrop, A. 2014. Baltic Porpoise Acoustic Surveys 01-02. Version 1.1.0. Dataset published in OBIS-SEAMAP. https://doi.org/10.82144/f466d4aa.

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: 62622d1b-01ec-4c2d-ac78-d224c9a13d2f.  OBIS-SEAMAP publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Ocean Biodiversity Information System.

Keywords

Marine Biology; Passive acoustic detection; Marine mammals; Habor porpoise; Habour porpoise; Acoustic survey; Occurrence; Observation

External data

The resource data is also available in other formats

OBIS-SEAMAP Dataset Page https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/343 UTF-8 Interactive map
FGDC Metadata https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/343/fgdc UTF-8 XML
EML Metadata https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/343/eml UTF-8 XML

Contacts

Anna Moscrop
  • Owner
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
  • Primary contact
Marine Conservation Research Ltd
OBIS-SEAMAP
  • Metadata Provider
  • Distributor
Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Duke University
  • A328 LSRC building
27708 Durham
NC
US

Geographic Coverage

Oceans,Baltic Sea,Poland

Bounding Coordinates South West [50.142, -4.881], North East [57.771, 16.968]

Taxonomic Coverage

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

Species Phocoena phocoena (Harbor porpoise)

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 2001-08-01 / 2002-08-19

Project Data

No Description available

Title Baltic Porpoise Acoustic Surveys 01-02
Funding NA

The personnel involved in the project:

Anna Moscrop
  • Owner

Sampling Methods

NA

Study Extent NA

Method step description:

  1. NA

Collection Data

Collection Name zd_343
Collection Identifier zd_343
Parent Collection Identifier OBIS-SEAMAP

Bibliographic Citations

  1. Gillespie, D., P. Berggren, S. Brown, I. Kuklik, C. Lacey, T. Lewis, J. Matthews, R. Mclanaghan, A. Moscrop and N. Tregenza. 2005. Relative abundance of harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena). Journal of Cetacean Research and Managment: 7(1):51-57.

Additional Metadata

marine, harvested by iOBIS. Acoustic sound files are not available in OBIS-SEAMAP. This dataset includes acoustic events only. Data for visual sightings during the survey are available in Baltic Porpoise Sightings 01-02.

Purpose

Harbor porpoises are subject to year-round bycatch in gillnets and other fishing gear in these waters. This is of particular concern in the Baltic Sea where a survey carried out in 1995 indicated that the population is low and current levels of anthropogenic mortality are believed to be unsustainable.

Alternative Identifiers https://doi.org/10.82144/f466d4aa
https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/343
https://www.gbif.org/dataset/62622d1b-01ec-4c2d-ac78-d224c9a13d2f
https://obis.org/dataset/dc5e998b-8b88-495b-9901-6de1c6831d86
62622d1b-01ec-4c2d-ac78-d224c9a13d2f
https://ipt.env.duke.edu/resource?r=zd_343