Description
Original provider: Alnilam Dataset credits: Alnitak Alnilam Ana Cañadas Ricardo Sagarminaga General Directorate for the Conservation of Nature, the Spanish Ministry for the Environment LIFE-Nature programs, European Commission Earthwatch Institute ONR Abstract: This dataset, belonging as a whole to Alnitak, comprises the work carried out in the Alboran Sea and adjacent areas from 1990 to 2006, and it includes 3,712 sightings of cetaceans and 306 sightings of sea turtles, during more than 31,000 nmi (more than 57,000 km) on searching effort.
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 4,866 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:
Cañadas, A. 2018. Alnitak-Alnilam Cetaceans and sea turtles surveys off Southern Spain. Version 1.6.0. Dataset published in OBIS-SEAMAP. https://doi.org/10.82144/2134f32c.
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: 9b73aa44-609b-44e6-a0fc-2df9eb32cee1. 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; Vessels; Sightings; abundance; habitat preferences; spatial modeling; line transect; Occurrence
External data
The resource data is also available in other formats
| OBIS-SEAMAP Dataset Page | https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/429 UTF-8 Interactive map |
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| FGDC Metadata | https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/429/fgdc UTF-8 XML |
| EML Metadata | https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/429/eml UTF-8 XML |
Contacts
- Metadata Provider ●
- Distributor
- A328 LSRC building
- Originator
Geographic Coverage
Oceans,Alboran Sea,Mediterranean Sea,Spain
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [35.183, -6.411], North East [43.982, 9.067] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Scientific names are based on the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
| Order | Cetacea (Cetaceans) |
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| Family | Hyperoodontidae (Beaked whales) |
| Genus | Ziphius (Goose-beaked whales) |
| Species | Balaenoptera acutorostrata (Common minke whale), 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), Hyperoodon ampullatus (Northern bottlenose whale), Orcinus orca (Killer whale), Physeter macrocephalus (Sperm whale), Pseudorca crassidens (False killer whale), Stenella coeruleoalba (Striped dolphin), Tursiops truncatus (Common bottlenose dolphin), Ziphius cavirostris (Cuvier's beaked whale) |
Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 1990-07-15 / 2011-08-29 |
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Project Data
No Description available
| Title | Alnitak-Alnilam Cetaceans and sea turtles surveys off Southern Spain |
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| Funding | NA |
The personnel involved in the project:
- Owner
Sampling Methods
NA
| Study Extent | NA |
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Method step description:
- NA
Collection Data
| Collection Name | zd_429 |
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| Collection Identifier | zd_429 |
| Parent Collection Identifier | OBIS-SEAMAP |
Bibliographic Citations
- Cañadas, A., R. Sagarminaga, R. de Stephanis, E. Urquiola and P.S. Hammond. 2005. Habitat preference modelling as a conservation tool: Proposals for marine protected areas for cetaceans in southern Spanish waters. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems: 15:495-521. http://www.alnitak.info/spanish/publica/downloads/2005AQC.pdf
Additional Metadata
marine, harvested by iOBIS. Time is in GMT. Several records do not have time recorded, which indicates the animal was seen far away and no contact was made.
| Purpose | Alnitak is a non-governmental non-profit association, founded in 1990 with the main aim of developing studies in cooperation with universities, environmental organizations and other institutions to increase our knowledge on the marine and coastal environment and thereby contribute to biodiversity conservation strategies. Alnitak focuses most of its research efforts into providing baseline scientific data for the adoption of management measures that should make fisheries sustainability, economic development and biodiversity conservation compatible. For this reason, Alnitak and its researchers have participated in useful and important projects such as LIFE02NAT/E/8610, SCANS II, CODA and NECESSITY. The research team of Alnitak has wide experience in research fields such as: the bioacoustics applied to Acoustic Deterrent Devices (ADDs) and Acoustic Harassement Devices (AHDs) and especially in the development of playback experiments and the cetaceans' reactions to them; the study of populations of sea turtles and in particular the monitoring of the bycatch in longline gear, data collection onboard fishing vessels, and experimental techniques on mitigation measures; and the study of cetacean populations, in particular their abundance and habitat preferences through spatial modelling, and their conservation problems. In this sense, Alnitak has been focusing during the last years in the development of Conservation Plans and the design of Marine Protected Areas, based on robust scientific data. In addition, there is a strong tradition of cooperation and synergy among the Alnitak team and the main European and other international entities with programs devoted to these issues (e.g., NOAA Fisheries, WIDECAST, SMRU, IWC, DIFRES, ACCOBAMS, EC, IEO Spain), the main stakeholders (e.g., the longline fishing fleet) and the competent authorities in Spain (Ministry of Environment and Ministry of Fisheries). Alnitak conducts research using the research vessel Toftevaag, which has been used to carry out the cetacean and sea turtle research for more than 15 years. |
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| Alternative Identifiers | https://doi.org/10.82144/2134f32c |
| https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/429 | |
| https://www.gbif.org/dataset/9b73aa44-609b-44e6-a0fc-2df9eb32cee1 | |
| https://obis.org/dataset/6ff78b05-3413-4626-a0d1-d36e75e2b2d3 | |
| 9b73aa44-609b-44e6-a0fc-2df9eb32cee1 | |
| https://ipt.env.duke.edu/resource?r=zd_429 |