Marine mammal monitoring from coastal sites in Cardigan Bay, UK, 2004-2009

Liz Allan

Dataset credit

Ceredigion County Council

Contacts

Role	Name	Organization
Primary contact	Liz Allan	Department of Environmental Services & Housing, Cyngor Sir Ceredigion County Council
Data entry	Connie Kot

Citation

Allan, L. 2011. Marine mammal monitoring from coastal sites in Cardigan Bay, UK, 2004-2009. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/716) 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.

Abstract

Since 1994, Ceredigion County Council and a network of shore-based volunteer observes have monitored levels of boat traffic and the occurrence of bottlenose dolphins at seven sites on the coast of Cardigan Bay, Wales. We report high rates of site use and site occupancy by this species during the summer. Although trends in site use may not reflect population trends in the wider region, these data were consistent with recent abundance estimates that indicate that the number of bottlenose dolphins using Cardigan Bay is stable or slightly increasing.

Purpose

Cardigan Bay is a Special Area of Conservation for bottlenose dolphins and other species and habitats. Recreational boating is known to have the potential to cause disturbance to cetaceans and this monitoring study provides data that underpins the effectiveness of management.

Supplemental information

Time was not recorded in the original dataset and is filled with 0:00:00.

References

Pierpoint, C., L. Allan, H. Arnold, P. Evans, S. Perry, L. Wilberforce and J. Baxter. 2009. Monitoring important coastal sites for bottlenose dolphin in Cardigan Bay, UK. Journal of the Marine Biological Association. 89(5):1033-1043.

Attributes

Overview

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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 SEAMAP)
tblwatches_opindex
site	Site name
observer	Observer name
obs_date	Observed date
obs_time	Observed time
watch
intervalindex
sightingindex
sp_obs	Species observed
sp_tsn	Species ITIS TSN
obs_count	Observed count
range
calves
gridcell
activitystate
directionoftravel
mapped
notes
longitude	Longitude of observation
latitude	Latitude of observation
opindex
interval
generalweather
winddirection
seastate
boattype
all_range
boats300
boatactivity
s1
s2
s3
s4
s5
s6
t1
t2
t3
hf
hs
ap
br
l
bl
ts
sb
o
gf
gs
ospecified

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OBIS-SEAMAP ID	716
Seabirds	0
Marine mammals	3,625
Sea turtles	0
Rays and sharks	0
Other species	1
Non spatial	0
Non species	0
Total	3,626
Date, Begin	2004-06-03
Date, End	2009-09-12
Temporal prec.	111000
Latitude	52.13 - 52.42
Longitude	-4.69 - -4.09
Coord. prec.	5 decimal digits
Platform	Shore
Data type	Animal sighting
Effort	N/A
Traveled (km)	0
	0
Contr. through
Registered	2011-03-28
Updated	2011-03-28
Status	Published
Sharing policy	CC-BY-NC (Minimum)
Shared with	OBIS GBIF (via DOI)
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