GREC Tursiops sightings in the Mediterranean 1988-2010

Groupe de Recherche sur les Cétacés and Alexandre Gannier

Data were obtained during sailboat dedicated surveys.

Surveys were not focused on a specific cetacean species.

[2016-12-09] The Tursiops truncatus sighting on 7/9/1997 at 12:59:00 was removed from this dataset and added to the Cetacean sightings in the north western Mediterranean Sea by GREC – EPHE – EcoOcéan Institut, 1996-1997 dataset (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1426) by request from the provider (to clarify the ownership of the data).

[2016-09-22] The coordinates of the sighting 1999-07-09 11:30:00 were corrected.
Longitude 5.58267 => -5.58267

Other data fields (not included here) describe environmental behavioral and other items. Pictures were taken opportunistically, as well as acoustic recordings.

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
oid	Unique ID number (generated by OBIS-SEAMAP)
num_row	Row number
matricul	definition not provided
obs_date	Observed date
lat1	Original latitude format
long1	Original longitude format
latitude	Latitude of observation in decimal degrees
longitude	Longitude of observation in decimal degrees
obs_count	Observed count
time1	Original time format
obs_time	Observed time (local time)
sp_obs	Species observed
sp_tsn	Taxonomic Serial Number added by OBIS-SEAMAP
geom	Geometry field added by OBIS-SEAMAP