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Cetacean survey in Balabac Strait, Philippines
Louella Dolar
Dataset credit
Louella Dolar
Conservation International
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Contacts
| Role | Name | Organization | |
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| Primary contact |
Louella Dolar |
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N/A |
| Data entry |
Ei Fujioka |
Duke University |
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Citation
Dolar, L. 2008. Cetacean survey in Balabac Strait, Philippines. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/461) on yyyy-mm-dd. 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
These are the sightings of cetaceans found in Balabac Strait, Palawan, Philippines. The survey was carried out on May 3-14, 2006 using the line transect method. The survey vessel was a 20 m boat with a sighting platform 5 m above sea level. The survey covered 718 km of trackline in an area of 6,538 sq. km. Funding was provided by Conservation International- Philippines.
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Purpose
The survey was carried out to characterize the cetacean fauna of Balabac Strait, Palawan, Philippines. Balabac Strait is one of the three Marine Biodiversity Conservarion Corridors in the Philippines delineated by Conservation International-Philippines. Information on the physico-chemical parameters such as sea surface temperature, salinity and total dissolved solids were also gathered.
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Supplemental information
The observations of B. edeni could be B. omurai (Omura's whale). These two species occur in Philippine waters and are very difficult to tell apart.
The observation for Stenella longirostris at 9:50 on 5/13/2006 is Stenella longirostris roseiventris.
Effort data will be appended later.
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References
Dolar, M.L. 2006. Marine mammals of the marine biodiversity corridors in the Philippines: Verde Island Passage, Balabac Strait and Cagayan Ridge. Technical report submitted to Conservation International-Philippines.
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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.
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 |
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| sight_no | |
| date | Date of observation |
| time | Time of observation |
| effort | ON or OFF |
| latitude | Latitude of observation |
| longitude | Longitude of observation |
| sea_state | Beaufort sea state |
| obs_count | Number of animals observed |
| other_species | other species sighted together |
| sp_tsn | Species ITIS TSN |
| sp_obs | Species observed |
| comments | |
| oid | Unique ID number (generated by SEAMAP) |
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| OBIS-SEAMAP ID | 461 |
| Seabirds | 0 |
| Marine mammals | 32 |
| Sea turtles | 0 |
| Rays and sharks | 0 |
| Other species | 0 |
| Non spatial | 0 |
| Non species | 0 |
| Total | 32 |
| Date, Begin | 2006-05-06 |
| Date, End | 2006-05-13 |
| Temporal prec. | 111111 |
| Latitude | 7.61 - 8.32 |
| Longitude | 116.58 - 117.41 |
| Coord. prec. | 6 decimal digits |
| Platform | Boat |
| Data type | Animal sighting |
| Effort | N/A |
| Traveled (km) | 0 |
| 0 |
| Contr. through | |
| Registered | 2008-08-04 |
| Updated | 2008-08-04 |
| Status | Published |
Sharing policy |
CC-BY (All) |
| Shared with |
OBIS
GBIF (via DOI) |
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