{999A9551-D701-4CF5-9373-131D3DD8D969} 20050512 19291400 FALSE 20060710 17161900 20060815 12091700 NoneAircraftSightings Relational database en Monitoring abundance and distribution is essential in any conservation strategy, but is often ignored in many regions, including much of the Mediterranean. It is a priority of the Italian Ministry of the Environment, who funded a series of aerial surveys around Italy, to provide significant baseline information on cetaceans distribution and abundance. The covered areas included the Pelagos Sanctuary, the Central Tyrrhenian, the Corsica and Sardinia Seas, and the Ionian Sea and the Gulf of Taranto. Numbers of animals within the Sanctuary are significantly higher in summer, when human activities and thus potential population level impacts are highest. A crude comparison with data from past shipboard surveys suggests an appreciable decrease in fin whale density in the Pelagos Sanctuary area over the last decade, reiterating the need for a major synoptic basinwide survey, as well as regular monitoring surveys. The low CVs and CIs reconfirm the effectiveness of aerial surveys in estimating abundance of certain cetacean species in suitable areas/circumstances and may provide a model for other areas of the Mediterranean. These surveys provide baseline data to develop efficient long-term systematic monitoring programmes, as required by a number of national and international frameworks. The collected data may also be crucial in assessing whether ship strikes, one of the main causes of death for fin whales in the Mediterranean, are affecting the Mediterranean population.Please contact data providerEffort data are from 2009 only. When time and observed counts were not available, "00:00:00" and "1" was filled in, respectively. Lanfredi, C. and G. Notarbartolo di Sciara2011https://doi.org/10.82144/58030104OBIS-SEAMAP776http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/776OBIS-SEAMAPVersion 1.0.0 ground condition2009011220110119 CompleteNone planned 5.88167119.02473844.29362136.0438125.88167119.02473836.04381244.293621Ocean Open public unless otherwise noted. See Use Constraints for details. 1. Not to use data obtained from OBIS-SEAMAP in any publication, product, or commercial application without proper attribution to the original data provider(s) and OBIS-SEAMAP unless the datasets are explicitly shown under the CC0 policy. Citations or credits are suggested as attribution. If the data you downloaded come from multiple datasets, a citation or credit to each of the datasets is required. Suggested citation for this dataset Lanfredi, C. and G. Notarbartolo di Sciara. 2011. Tethys Research Institute aerial survey cetacean sightings 2009-2011. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/776) on yyyy-mm-dd. Suggested citation for OBIS-SEAMAP: 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 2. To forward the citation of any publication / report that made use of the data / tools provided by OBIS-SEAMAP for inclusion in our list of references. 3. Not to hold OBIS-SEAMAP or the original data providers liable for errors in the data. While we have made every effort to ensure the quality of the database, we cannot guarantee the accuracy of these datasets. 4. The burden for determining fitness for use of the downloaded data for any analyses lies entirely with the user. OBIS-SEAMAP or the original data providers do not support outcomes of your analyses that used the data you downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP. 5. To consider inclusion of the accompanying transect (effort) dataset if available into the methodology of your analyses. 6. Not to redistribute the data you downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP through any media without contect from OBIS-SEAMAP and the original data providers unless the datasets are explicitly shown under the CC0 policy. Shapefile Caterina Lanfredi; Giuseppe Notarbartolo di SciaraTethys Research Institute; Tethys Research Institute mailing and physical address

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Milano; Milanon/a; n/a20121; 20124Italy; Italy caterina.lanfredi@polimi.it; tethys@tethys.org+39 0272001947; +390272001947 Integrated Taxonomic Information Systemhttp://www.itis.usda.gov/Downloaded April, 2004Refer to the contact information of the datasetKingdomAnimalia202423PhylumChordata158852SubphylumVertebrata331030ClassMammalia179913SubclassTheria179916InfraclassEutheria179925OrderCetacea180403SuborderMysticeti552298FamilyBalaenopteridae180522GenusBalaenoptera180523SpeciesBalaenoptera physalus180527SuborderOdontoceti180404FamilyDelphinidae180415GenusGlobicephala180464SpeciesGlobicephala melas552461GenusGrampus180456SpeciesGrampus griseus180457GenusStenella180428SpeciesStenella coeruleoalba180434GenusTursiops180425SpeciesTursiops truncatus180426FamilyPhyseteridae180486GenusPhyseter180487SpeciesPhyseter macrocephalus180488FamilyHyperoodontidae770799GenusZiphius180497SpeciesZiphius cavirostris180498Tethys Research Institute; Institute for Environmental Protection and Research - ISPRAPanigada, S., Lauriano, G., Burt, L., Pierantonio, N., Donovan, G.2011PLoS ONE 6(7): e22878.doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0022878.http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0022878Halpin, 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. Hyrenbach2009Oceanography22(2):104-115http://www.tos.org/oceanography/article/obis-seamap-the-world-data-center-for-marine-mammal-sea-bird-and-sea-turtle en FGDC Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata FGDC-STD-001-1998 local time Ei Fujioka Nicholas School of Environment, Duke University mailing and physical addressDurhamNC27708

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USA 919-613-8021 seamap-contact@duke.edu Connie KotDuke University http://www.nbii.gov/Biological Data Profilehttp://www.esri.com/metadata/esriprof80.htmlESRI Metadata Profile 20160503 20160503 ISO 19115 Geographic Information - MetadataDIS_ESRI1.0dataset OBIS-SEAMAP Dataset ID 776 0.021 0.021 OBIS-SEAMAP Free Go to the OBIS-SEAMAP web site and click on [Datasets] tab appearing on upper left. Nicholas School of Environment, Duke Univ. OBIS-SEAMAP mailing and physical address DurhamNCUSA

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27708 919-613-8021 seamap-contact@duke.edu Not to hold OBIS-SEAMAP liable for errors in the data. While we have made every effort to ensure the quality of the database, we cannot guarantee the accuracy of these datasets. Also please refer to Use Constraints. 002 Local Area Network 0.021 Shapefile Vector GCS_WGS_1984Decimal degrees1e-061e-06D_WGS_1984WGS_19846378137.000000298.257224GCS_WGS_1984 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.Tethys Research InstituteBiogeographic dataBiogeographic dataNot applicableoidUnique ID number (added by SEAMAP)Data providerUnique ID number (added by SEAMAP)nameidDataset nameData providerDataset nameidRecord IDData providerRecord IDdatabasedefinition not providedData providerdefinition not providedprojectdefinition not providedData providerdefinition not providedobs_dateObserved dateData providerObserved dateobs_timeObserved timeData providerObserved timelatitudeLatitude of observationData providerLatitude of observationlongitudeLongitude of observationData providerLongitude of observationsp_obsSpecies observedData providerSpecies observedobs_countObserved countData providerObserved countnotesDetails for when time and count were not recorded (generated by SEAMAP)Data providerDetails for when time and count were not recorded (generated by SEAMAP)sp_tsnSpecies ITIS TSNData providerSpecies ITIS TSNgeomdefinition not providedData providerdefinition not provided20060815 All observation records are included.Permissible values for date and time and coordinates were validated by the data provider and the OBIS-SEAMAP data manager. Species identification by the data provider was matched with Integrated Taxonomic Information System.Data were put through the OBIS-SEAMAP data registration steps.20111007