Cetacean sightings in the Black Sea, Sea of Azov and Kerch Strait
EurOBIS

Dataset credit

iOBIS and EurOBIS

Abstract

Over 645 sightings of cetacean groups (of one and more individuals) have been recorded in the Black Sea, Azov Sea and Kerch Strait during the period from 1993 to 2010 inclusive.

Purpose

N/A

Supplemental information

Original data obtained from http://w2.vliz.be/digir/DiGIR.php and registered into iOBIS on 2011-04-29. 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: 879) harvested into OBIS-SEAMAP on 2011-10-11

References

Cetacean sightings in the Black Sea, Sea of Azov and Kerch Strait (CetSiBS). 2011. Dataset assembled by A.Birkun, Jr. and S.Krivokhizhin. EMODNet.

Data on iOBIS. http://iobis.org/mapper/?resource_id=2329, obtained on 2011-10-11

Original data source. http://w2.vliz.be/digir/DiGIR.php

Contacts

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Attributes

Overview

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Only minimum required attributes are visible and downlodable online. Other attributes may be obtained upon provider's permission unless otherwise noteded below.

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SEAMAP ID103152329
Seabirds0
Marine mammals879
Sea turtles0
Total879
Date, Begin1993-08-15
Date, End2010-09-20
Latitudes41.54 - 46.58
Longitudes30.20 - 41.75
PlatformVarious
Data typeAnimal sighting
EffortN/A
SourceiOBIS
Updated2011-10-12