UNCW Marine Mammal Sightings 1998-1999

University of North Carolina, Wilmington

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Contacts

Role	Name	Organization
Primary contact	William McLellan	University of North Carolina Wilmington
Data entry	Benjamin Best	Duke University

Citation

McLellan, W. 2006. UNCW Marine Mammal Sightings 1998-1999. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/66) 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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References

Attributes

Overview

Attributes described below represent those in the original dataset provided by the provider.
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Attributes in dataset

Attribute (table column)	Description
species_group
species_code	Code of species observed
species_common	Common name of species observed
species_scientific	Scientific name of species observed
species_tsn	Species ITIS TSN
oid	Unique ID number (generated by SEAMAP)

OBIS-SEAMAP ID	66
Seabirds	0
Marine mammals	145
Sea turtles	129
Rays and sharks	35
Other species	20
Non spatial	0
Non species	467
Total	796
Date, Begin	1998-09-14
Date, End	1999-10-30
Temporal prec.	111111
Latitude	33.41 - 38.29
Longitude	-77.80 - -73.98
Coord. prec.	3 decimal digits
Platform	Plane
Data type	Animal sighting
Effort	N/A
Traveled (km)	0
	0
Contr. through
Registered	2006-03-21
Updated	2018-10-06
Status	Published
Sharing policy	CC-BY-NC (Minimum)
Shared with	OBIS GBIF (via DOI)
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