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Green Balkans NGO's cetacean sightings in the Bulgarian Black Sea waters
Green Balkans NGO
Dataset credit
Green Balkans NGO
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Contacts
| Role | Name | Organization | |
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| Primary contact |
Popov Dimitar |
Green Balkans NGO |
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| Data entry |
Ei Fujioka |
Duke University |
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Citation
Popov, D. and Meshkova, G. 2022. Cetacean sightings in Bulgarian Black Sea waters 2015-2022. Green Balkans NGO\'s Cetacean Monitoring and Conservation Program. 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.
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Abstract
Sightings from vessel surveys conducted in Bulgarian waters of the Black Sea over the period 2015-2022.
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Purpose
Main purpose of dedicated surveys from 2017 onwards is to estimate abundance and density of cetaceans in Bulgarian territorial waters of the Black Sea.
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Supplemental information
The surveys from 2017 onwards have been funded by OceanCare.
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References
Popov, D. and Meshkova, G. 2022. Cetacean sightings in Bulgarian Black Sea waters 2015-2022. Green Balkans NGO\'s Cetacean Monitoring and Conservation Program.
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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.
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 |
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| oid | Unique ID number (generated by OBIS-SEAMAP) |
| no | Sequential number of records |
| date | Date of the sighting |
| time | Time of the sighting at local time zone |
| lat | Latitude in decimal degrees |
| lon | Longitude in dcimal degrees |
| species | Species name (code) |
| group_size | Group size |
| sp_tsn | Taxonomic Serial Number added by OBIS-SEAMAP |
| geom | Geometry field added by OBIS-SEAMAP |
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| OBIS-SEAMAP ID | 2218 |
| Seabirds | 0 |
| Marine mammals | 1,607 |
| Sea turtles | 0 |
| Rays and sharks | 0 |
| Other species | 0 |
| Non spatial | 0 |
| Non species | 0 |
| Total | 1,607 |
| Date, Begin | 2016-01-27 |
| Date, End | 2022-08-06 |
| Temporal prec. | 111111 |
| Latitude | 41.99 - 43.73 |
| Longitude | 27.62 - 29.91 |
| Coord. prec. | 6 decimal digits |
| Platform | Boat |
| Data type | Animal sighting |
| Effort | N/A |
| Traveled (km) | 0 |
| 0 |
| Contr. through | |
| Registered | 2023-01-18 |
| Updated | 2023-01-18 |
| Status | Published |
Sharing policy |
CC-BY-NC (Minimum) |
| Shared with |
GBIF (via DOI) |
| See metadata in static HTML |
| See metadata in FGDC XML |
| See download history / statistics |
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