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Dolphins validated sightings reported in the Mediterranean Sea from 2019 onwards by avvistAPP users
Citation
Tirelli V, Goruppi A (2024): Dolphins validated sightings reported by avvistAPP users. v3.4. National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics. Dataset/Samplingevent. https://doi.org/10.13120/awym8v https://doi.org/10.13120/3524-gy91
Contact: Tirelli, Valentina
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Archived data
Availability: Creative Commons License This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
Description
Sampling Methods avvistAPP is a free citizen science tool that allows everyone to actively contribute to the monitoring of marine animals. Available both in Google and Apple app stores. App description: https://doi.org/10.13120/h127-9v54 Study Extent Mediterranean Sea from 2019 onwards. Method step description: The reported sightings are validated by researchers.
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, Citizen science, Environment, Geoscientific Information, Habitats and biotopes, Metadata non conformant, Metadata not evaluated, No limitations to public access, Oceans, Sea regions, WGS84 (EPSG:4326), XYZ ASCII, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, MED, MED, Adriatic Sea, MED, Tyrrhenian Sea, Stenella coeruleoalba (Meyen, 1833), Tursiops truncantus Montagu, 1821
Geographical coverage
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: 0,704; MinLat: 0,0997 - MaxLong: 20,5261; MaxLat: 45,7844 [WGS84]
Mediterranean [Marine Regions]
MED, Adriatic Sea [Marine Regions]
MED, Tyrrhenian Sea [Marine Regions]
Temporal coverage
2 September 2019 - 31 July 2022
Taxonomic coverage
Stenella coeruleoalba (Meyen, 1833) [WoRMS]
Tursiops truncantus Montagu, 1821 [WoRMS]
Parameter
Count (in assayed sample) of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC]
Contributors
National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics (OGS), more, data creator, data creator, data manager
Tirelli, Valentina
Goruppi, Alenka
Holodkov, Nikola
Delfini e Tartarughe del Golfo di Trieste (DelTa), more, data manager
Riccamboni, Rodolfo
Tempesta, Milena
Related datasets
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more
URLs
Dataset information:
Other:
Dataset status: In Progress
Data type: Data
Data origin: Citizen science
Release date: 2022-01-26
Metadatarecord created: 2021-12-16
Information last updated: 2025-03-26
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