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OceanCare cetacean sightings in Sicily, Italy 2016-2019 Citation Frey, S. 2019. OceanCare cetacean sightings in Sicily, Italy 2016-2019. . https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/8267 Contact: Frey, Silvia ; Availability:  This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Description This dataset comprises the work carried out by OceanCare in the waters east and north of Sicily, Italy between 2016-2019. The project was dedicated to survey cetacean populations in these waters. Cetacean spatial and temporal distribution is studied using boat-based surveys. moreOriginal provider: OceanCare Dataset credits: Silvia Frey, OceanCare Purpose: OceanCare is a non-profit and non-governmental organization founded in 1989 in Switzerland. The organization is dedicated to the protection of marine mammals and the conservation of the marine environment. The association works at national and international level in the areas of whaling, industrial fishing, environmental changes, seal hunting, dolphin captivity, and cetacean research. OceanCare has the Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations and is a partner of the UNEP/CMS Agreement on the Conservation of Cetaceans in the Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea and Contiguous Atlantic Area (ACCOBAMS). With this cetacean monitoring project OceanCare provides long-term data on cetacean abundance in the Mediterranean Sea. Scope Keywords: Marine/Coastal, Marine biology, Marine mammals, Occurrence, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, Balaenoptera physalus (Linnaeus, 1758), Globicephala melas (Traill, 1809), Physeter macrocephalus Linnaeus, 1758, Stenella coeruleoalba (Meyen, 1833), Steno bredanensis (G. Cuvier in Lesson, 1828), Tursiops truncatus (Montagu, 1821), Ziphius cavirostris Cuvier, 1823 Geographical coverage EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations Bounding Box Coordinates: MinLong: 14,6337; MinLat: 36,7097 - MaxLong: 15,9044; MaxLat: 38,7735 [WGS84] Temporal coverage 27 June 2016 - 26 September 2019 Taxonomic coverage Balaenoptera physalus (Linnaeus, 1758) [WoRMS] Globicephala melas (Traill, 1809) [WoRMS] Physeter macrocephalus Linnaeus, 1758 [WoRMS] Stenella coeruleoalba (Meyen, 1833) [WoRMS] Steno bredanensis (G. Cuvier in Lesson, 1828) [WoRMS] Tursiops truncatus (Montagu, 1821) [WoRMS] Ziphius cavirostris Cuvier, 1823 [WoRMS] Contributors KYMA sea conservation & research, more, data owner, data creator Duke University; Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, more, dataset publisher Agreement on the Conservation of Cetaceans of the Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea and contiguous Atlantic area (Accobams), more, proposer Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society (WDCS), more, proposer Related datasets Published in: EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more Data type: Data Data origin: Monitoring: field survey Release date: 2021-04-23 Metadatarecord created: 2023-04-04 Information last updated: 2024-04-10 | ||||
