Atlantic Canada Conservation Data Centre
OBIS Canada

Dataset credit

iOBIS and OBIS Canada

Abstract

Summary: The Atlantic Canada Conservation Data Centre (AC CDC) collects data on rare and imperilled species* and plant communities and their management in Eastern Canada (New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland and Labrador) for time period 1600 to the present; Habitats: All terrestrial and marine habitats. *only marine species are given here. OBIS Schema concepts implemented in this data set are:DateLastModified, InstitutionCode, CollectionCode, CatalogNumber, ScientificName, BasisOfRecord, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species, ScientificNameAuthor, Collector, YearCollected, MonthCollected, DayCollected, Country, StateProvince, County, Locality, Longitude, Latitude, CoordinatePrecision, Notes, Citation, StartLongitude, EndLongitude, StartLatitude, EndLatitude, GMLFeature. For OBIS Schema concept details see http://www.iobis.org/tech/provider/

Purpose

N/A

Supplemental information

Original data obtained from http://scomber.mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/digir/DiGIR.php and registered into iOBIS on 2007-07-13. This dataset on OBIS-SEAMAP is a subset of marine mammal, seabird and/or sea turtle records from the dataset on iOBIS (Total number of records: 1365) harvested into OBIS-SEAMAP on 2011-10-11

References

Atlantic Canada Conservation Data Centre (AC CDC) Data System.

Data on iOBIS. http://iobis.org/mapper/?resource_id=33, obtained on 2011-10-11

Original data source. http://gcmd.nasa.gov/KeywordSearch/Metadata.do?Portal=caobis&MetadataType=0&KeywordPath=&MetadataView=Full&EntryId=OBIS.ACCDC

Contacts

RoleNameOrganization 
Primary contact Stefen Gerriets

Attributes

Overview

Attributes described below represent those in the original dataset provided by the provider.
Only minimum required attributes are visible and downlodable online. Other attributes may be obtained upon provider's permission unless otherwise noteded below.

The attributes of this dataset are compatible with the OBIS Schema, then reformatted to the OBIS-SEAMAP schema. If you would like to get the data in the OBIS Schema, please visit iOBIS Portal.

SEAMAP ID103150033
Seabirds344
Marine mammals2
Sea turtles0
Total346
Date, Begin1929-07-02
Date, End2001-08-08
Latitudes43.40 - 56.43
Longitudes-67.10 - -52.77
PlatformVarious
Data typeAnimal sighting
EffortN/A
SourceiOBIS
Updated2011-10-12