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Cetacean sightings off Turkey 2006-2011
SAD-DEMAG (Underwater Research Society - Marine Mammals Research Group)
Dataset credit
N/A
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Contacts
| Role | Name | Organization | |
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| Primary contact |
Fethi Bengil |
SAD-DEMAG |
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| Data entry |
Ei Fujioka |
Duke University |
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Citation
Bengil, F. 2012. Cetacean sightings off Turkey 2006-2011. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/839) 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
Some sporadic observations from Turkish waters are recorded between 2006-2011.
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Purpose
Contribution to the distribution of cetacean species in Turkish waters.
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Supplemental information
The time was not recorded and replaced with 00:00:00.
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References
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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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| oid | |
| dataset_no | Dataset number |
| recorded_by | The provider name |
| data_no | Sequential number |
| day | Day of the sighting |
| month | Month of the sighting |
| year | Year of observation |
| obs_date | Observation date |
| obs_time | As time was not recorded, this is always 00:00:00. |
| location | Location |
| sp_obs | Species name |
| sp_tsn | ITIS Taxonomic Serial Number assigned by OBIS-SEAMAP |
| resight | Indicate how many times the same animals were sighted in the day. |
| obs_count | Group size |
| lat_d | |
| lat_m | |
| lat_s | |
| latitude | Latitude in decimal degrees |
| lon_d | |
| lon_m | |
| lon_s | |
| longitude | Longitude in decimal degrees |
| geom | |
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| OBIS-SEAMAP ID | 839 |
| Seabirds | 0 |
| Marine mammals | 23 |
| Sea turtles | 0 |
| Rays and sharks | 0 |
| Other species | 0 |
| Non spatial | 0 |
| Non species | 0 |
| Total | 23 |
| Date, Begin | 2006-06-12 |
| Date, End | 2011-01-02 |
| Temporal prec. | 111000 |
| Latitude | 36.32 - 41.54 |
| Longitude | 26.18 - 31.83 |
| Coord. prec. | 6 decimal digits |
| Platform | Boat |
| Data type | Animal sighting |
| Effort | N/A |
| Traveled (km) | 0 |
| 0 |
| Contr. through | ACCOBAMS |
| Registered | 2012-04-09 |
| Updated | 2012-04-09 |
| Status | Published |
Sharing policy |
CC-BY (All) |
| Shared with |
OBIS
GBIF (via DOI) |
| See metadata in static HTML |
| See metadata in FGDC XML |
| See download history / statistics |
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