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CIRCE Marine mammals off Spain 2001-2012
Citation
Verborgh, P., Fujioka, E. 2012. CIRCE Marine mammals off Spain 2001-2012. CIRCE. https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/3133
Contact: Verborgh, Philippe
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Description
This dataset was collected during CIRCE's research survey on cetaceans with visual effort between 2001-2012. more

This dataset was collected during CIRCE's research survey on cetaceans with visual effort between 2001-2012.

Sixty-five marine mammal observations identified as 'NO ID', 'NO ID BIG CETACEAN', 'NO ID SMALL DOLPHIN', 'None' were removed.

Lineage
Prior to publication data undergo quality control checked which are described in https://github.com/EMODnet/EMODnetBiocheck?tab=readme-ov-file#understanding-the-output
Scope
Themes:
Biology > Mammals
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Bio-geographical regions, Biota, Environment, Geoscientific Information, Habitats and biotopes, Marine mammals, Metadata non conformant, Metadata not evaluated, No limitations to public access, Oceans, Sea regions, WGS84 (EPSG:4326), XYZ ASCII, ANE, Atlantic, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, Cetacea
Geographical coverage
ANE, Atlantic Stations [Marine Regions]
Off Spain
Coordinates: MinLong: -10,27; MinLat: 35,79 - MaxLong: -5,03; MaxLat: 37,13 [WGS84]
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -10,2666; MinLat: 35,7858 - MaxLong: -5,0291; MaxLat: 37,1287 [WGS84]
Temporal coverage
22 April 1999 - 6 February 2012
Taxonomic coverage
Cetacea [WoRMS]
Parameter
Animal sightings
Contributors
Conservation, Information and Study on Cetaceans (CIRCE), data owner, data provider
Verborgh, Philippe
Related datasets
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System
OBIS-SEAMAP: Spatial Ecological Analysis of Megavertebrate Populations
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Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research: field survey
Release date: 2013-02-14
Metadatarecord created: 2012-08-01
Information last updated: 2025-03-26
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