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MAR-ECO 2004 - Mammals and birds Citation Skov,H, T. Gunnlaugsson, W.P. Budgell, J. Horne, L. Nøttestad, E. Olsen, H. Søiland, G. Víkingsson and G. Waring (2008) Small-scale spatial variability of sperm and sei whales in relation to oceanographic and topographic features along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Deep-sea Research II. 55: 254-268. https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/2428 Contact: de Lange Wenneck, Thomas Availability: ![]() Description MAR-ECO (2003 - 2010)was an international exploratory study of the animals inhabiting the northern mid-Atlantic. Scientists from 16 nations around the northern Atlantic Ocean participated in research of the waters around the mid-Atlantic Ridge from Iceland to the Azores.
This data set is subset of the data collected, and comprises presence/absence records (sightings) for mammals and birds, collected in 2004 on R/V G.O. Sars. Skov,H, T. Gunnlaugsson, W.P. Budgell, J. Horne, L. Nøttestad, E. Olsen, H. Søiland, G. Víkingsson and G. Waring (2008) Small-scale spatial variability of sperm and sei whales in relation to oceanographic and topographic features along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Deep-sea Research II. 55: 254-268. 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 > Birds, Biology > Mammals Keywords: Marine/Coastal, Bio-geographical regions, Biota, Birds, Environment, G.O. Sars, Geoscientific Information, Habitats and biotopes, Mammals, Metadata non conformant, Metadata not evaluated, No limitations to public access, Oceans, research vessel, Sea regions, WGS84 (EPSG:4326), XYZ ASCII, A, North Atlantic, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, Aves, Mammalia Geographical coverage A, North Atlantic [Marine Regions] EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations Bounding Box Coordinates: MinLong: -36,716; MinLat: 40,1519 - MaxLong: -18,212; MaxLat: 60,3376 [WGS84] Temporal coverage 8 June 2004 - 28 July 2004 Unknown Parameters Count Presence of biota Contributors Institute of Marine Research; Norwegian Marine Data Centre, more, data manager, executant, data creator Related datasets Published in: EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more URLs Dataset information: Other: Dataset status: Completed Data type: Data Data origin: Research: experiment Release date: 2010-04-28 Metadatarecord created: 2010-04-29 Information last updated: 2025-03-26 |