Description
Original provider: Caroline Weir Dataset credits: Caroline Weir, Ketos Ecology Karen Stockin, Sea Watch Foundation Abstract: Spatial and temporal trends in the distribution of the harbor porpoise Phocoena phocoena, white-beaked dolphin Lagenorhynchus albirostris, and minke whale Balaenoptera acutorostrata were assessed at a coastal North Sea study area in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Between March 1999 and October 2001, cetacean data were collected using both land- and vessel-based survey methods. A total of 174 sightings of these three cetacean species was recorded during approximately 330 h of combined survey effort (228 h land-based and 102 h vessel-based). Purpose: The data were collected to analyze the distribution and seasonality of cetacean species in the region, in order to provide recommendations for their long-term conservation and management. Supplemental information: This dataset is accompanied with a land-based survey dataset, a separate dataset available on OBIS-SEAMAP.
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 71 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
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Weir, C. 2011. Harbour porpoises, white-beaked dolphins and minke whales in North Sea - Vessel surveys -. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/425) on yyyy-mm-dd.
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: 68c69639-4240-413f-8e0a-73be5a775773. OBIS-SEAMAP publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Ocean Biodiversity Information System.
Keywords
Occurrence,Harbour porpoise,white-beaked dolphin,minke whale,North-east Scotland,distribution,seasonality; Observation; Occurrence
External data
The resource data is also available in other formats
| OBIS-SEAMAP Dataset Page | http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/425 UTF-8 Interactive map |
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| FGDC Metadata | http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/425/xml UTF-8 XML |
Contacts
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Geographic Coverage
Oceans
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [56.786, -2.32], North East [57.149, -2.022] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Scientific names are based on the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
| Species | Phocoena phocoena (Harbor Porpoise), Balaenoptera acutorostrata (Minke Whale), Lagenorhynchus albirostris (White-beaked Dolphin) |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 1999-05-01 / 2001-10-13 |
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Project Data
No Description available
| Title | Harbour porpoises, white-beaked dolphins and minke whales in North Sea - Vessel surveys - |
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| Funding | NA |
The personnel involved in the project:
- Owner
Sampling Methods
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| Study Extent | NA |
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Method step description:
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Collection Data
| Collection Name | zd_425 |
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| Collection Identifier | zd_425 |
| Parent Collection Identifier | OBIS-SEAMAP |
Additional Metadata
marine, harvested by iOBIS
| Purpose | The data were collected to analyze the distribution and seasonality of cetacean species in the region, in order to provide recommendations for their long-term conservation and management. |
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| Alternative Identifiers | http://ipt.env.duke.edu/resource?r=zd_425 |