Harbour seals GPS telemetry in Baie du Mont Saint-Michel

Cécile Vincent, Centre d’Études Biologiques de Chizé

Dataset credit

Cecile Vincent, CEBC (CNRS/La Rochelle University)

Contacts

Role	Name	Organization
Primary contact	Cécile Vincent	Centre d’Etudes Biologiques de Chize (CEBC)
Data entry	Ei Fujioka	Duke University

Citation

Vincent, C. 2020. Harbour seals GPS telemetry in Baie du Mont Saint-Michel. Version 1.1.0. Dataset published in OBIS-SEAMAP. https://doi.org/10.82144/368dd287.

Halpin, P.N., A.J. Read, E. Fujioka, B.D. Best, B. Donnelly, L.J. Hazen, C. Kot, K. Urian, E. LaBrecque, A. Dimatteo, J. Cleary, C. Good, L.B. Crowder, and K.D. Hyrenbach. 2009. OBIS-SEAMAP: The world data center for marine mammal, sea bird, and sea turtle distributions. Oceanography. 22(2):104-115.

Abstract

8 harbour seals (Phoca vitulina) were captured in the Baie du Montt-Saint-Michel (France) between January 2006 and October 2007 and fitted with Fastloc GPS/GSM tags (Sea Mammal Research Unit - SMRU, UK). The project was funded by the DIREN Basse Normandie. The study was conducted by Cecile Vincent at the University of La Rochelle (France) in collaboration with SMRU, Aero'Baie, PELAGIS (CNRS/La Rochelle University), the Office national de la chasse de la faune sauvage (ONCFS), the Zoo de La Fleche and the Zoo La Bourbansais. Seals were caught under licenses delivered by the French ministry of the environment.

Purpose

Identification of individual movements and foraging areas of harbour seals

Supplemental information

N/A

Change History

The dataset has been updated over time as outlined below. Each entry includes the version number, release date, type of change, and a short description.

- 1.1.0 (2021-04-24) - Update

Published after organisation is set and ready to be registered into GBIF.

- 1.0.1 (2020-10-23) - Update

A few records had incorrect date/time. They are corrected.

- 1.0.0 (2019-10-30) - Initial

Initial release

References

Attributes

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.
All attributes are included in the downloadable file (CSV or ESRI File Geodatabase) for "Complete Set of Dataset".

Attributes in dataset

Attribute (table column)	Description
oid	Unique ID number (generated by OBIS-SEAMAP)
fid	FID
ptt	PTT
animal_id	Animal ID (SEAL ID)
datetime	Date and time
lat	Latitude in decimal degrees
lon	Longitude in decimal degrees
date_capture	Date the animal was captured
species	Species name
sp_tsn	ITIS Taxonomic Serial Number added by OBIS-SEAMAP
num_animals	Number of animals (Always 1)
sex	Sex
seal_number	SEAL ID
country	Country the animal was captured in
catching_area	Area code of the capture location
body_mass	Body mass (kg)
total_length	Total length (cm)
girth	Girth (cm)
type_tag	Tag type
tag_number	Tag number
start_tracking	Date the tracking started
end_tracking	Date the tracking ended
duration	Number of days for tracking
remarks	Remarks
geom	Geometry field added by OBIS-SEAMAP

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OBIS-SEAMAP ID	2034
DOI	10.82144/368dd287
Version	1.1.0
Seabirds	0
Marine mammals	13,723
Sea turtles	0
Rays and sharks	0
Other species	0
Non spatial	0
Non species	0
Total	13,723
Date, Begin	2006-01-29
Date, End	2008-04-08
Temporal prec.	111110
Latitude	48.62 - 50.83
Longitude	-1.96 - 0.47
Coord. prec.	5 decimal digits
Platform	Tag
Data type	Telemetry location
Tracklines	YES (ID: 2035)
Traveled (km)	15,113
Travel hours	16,689
Registered	2019-10-30
Updated	2020-10-23
Status	Published
Sharing policy	CC-BY-NC (All)
Shared with	GBIF OBIS
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