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SCANS II cetacean sightings on tracker platform of vessel surveys 2005
Citation
Hammond, P.S., Macleod, K., Berggren, P., Borchers, D.L., Burt, L., Cañadas, A., Desportes, G., Donovan, G.P., Gilles, A., Gillespie, D., et al. 2013. Cetacean abundance and distribution in European Atlantic shelf waters to inform conservation and management. Biological Conservation. 164, 107–122. https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/4843
Contact: Lacey, Claire

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Description
Surveys from seven different vessels were merged. Each vessel contained two sightings platforms running concurrently – primary and tracker. This dataset includes sightings from the tracker platform. Sightings from the primary platform are registered in SCANS II cetacean sightings on primary platform of vessel surveys 2005. Effort or vessel tracks for these surveys are provided with the primary platform dataset. Survey conditions such as sea state, glare, swell, wind are found in the effort data. In the tracker platform, Big-eye binoculars were used. The trackers used to track groups of animals as they came passed the boat and record them accordingly. However, this dataset does not contain such duplicates.

Scope
Themes:
Biology > Mammals
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, self-propelled boat, surface vessel, ANE, Europe, European Continental Shelf

Geographical coverage
ANE, Europe, European Continental Shelf [Marine Regions]

Contributors
University of St Andrews; Sea Mammal Research Unit (SMRU), moredata creator
Hammond, Philip
Lacey, Claire

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Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more
OBIS-SEAMAP: Spatial Ecological Analysis of Megavertebrate Populations, more
Other relation:
SCANS II cetacean sightings on primary platform of vessel surveys 2005, more

Publication
Based on this dataset
Hammond, P.S. et al. (2013). Cetacean abundance and distribution in European Atlantic shelf waters to inform conservation and management. Biol. Conserv. 164: 107-122. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2013.04.010

Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research: field survey
Metadatarecord created: 2015-03-23
Information last updated: 2022-08-16
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