Red Sea Cetacean Review - Strandings

Marina Costa & Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara, Tethys Research Institute
Sighting records were collected from the data owners:

Eritrea Project - Yohannes Mebrahtu

Israel Marine Mammal Research & Assistance Center - IMMRAC
Mia Elasar, Daphna Feingold, Oz Goffman, Nir Hadar, Dan Kerem, Aviad Scheinin

Red Sea Dolphin Project - HEPCA

This dataset includes information about stranding occurred along: 1. the Egyptian coast of the Red Sea and collected by the MEGABase program within the Hurghada Environmental Protection and Conservation Association (HEPCA), http://www.hepca.org/
2. the Eritrean coast by Eritrea Project - Yohannes Mebrahtu
3. The Israeli coast of the Red Sea by IMMRAC

Gather cetacean stranding information occurred along the Red Sea and

Stranding records were collected from the data owners:
Eritrea Project - Yohannes Mebrahtu
IMMRAC
Red Sea Dolphin Project - HEPCA

Temporal resolution varies per record. Time values are not available. "tprecision" column is added to indicate the resolution.

Overview

This section explains attributes included in the original dataset. OBIS-SEAMAP restricts the attributes available to the public to date/time, lat/lon and species names/counts only. Should you need other attributes described here, you are encouraged to contact the data provider.

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

Attributes in dataset

Attribute (table column)	Description
oid	Unique ID number (generated by OBIS-SEAMAP)
id	Row ID
observation_from	Always "Stranding"
survey_kind	Indicate whether the record came from a research survey or an opportunistic sighting
geeral_source	Data source / data owner
detailed_source	Data provider
sighting_date_orig	Date of sighting in original format
day	Day
month	Month
year	Year
tprecision	Temporal resolution
obs_date	Date of the sighting added by OBIS-SEAMAP
obs_time	Time of the observation is not available
site_name	Site name
area	Area
coordinate	Indicate if the coordinates were provided or estimated
lat	Latitude in decimal degrees
long	Longitude in decimal degrees
species	Species name recorded
sp_tsn	Taxonomic Serial Number added by OBIS-SEAMAP
group_size_org	Group size in original format
group_size	Numeric group side added by OBIS-SEAMAP
calves	Indicate the presence of calves
calf_number	Number of calves
notes	Notes
geom	Geometry field added by OBIS-SEAMAP