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Bottlenose dolphins off Outer Banks 2007-2009

Availability: Creative Commons License This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Description
The purpose of this study is to examine the seasonal movement patterns of bottlenose dolphins in the sounds surrounding the Outer Banks (North Carolina) using photo-identification. Data was collected through a combination of dedicated and opportunistic efforts by the Outer Banks Center for Dolphin Research. Survey coverage includes sound waters adjacent to the Outer Banks of North Carolina.

Scope
Themes:
Biology > Mammals
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, A, North Atlantic, Tursiops truncatus (Montagu, 1821)

Geographical coverage
A, North Atlantic [Marine Regions]

Temporal coverage
7 October 2007 - 1 August 2009

Taxonomic coverage
Tursiops truncatus (Montagu, 1821) [WoRMS]

Contributors
Outer Banks Center for Dolphin Research, moredata owner

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Published in:
OBIS-SEAMAP: Spatial Ecological Analysis of Megavertebrate Populations, more

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Dataset information:

Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research: field survey
Metadatarecord created: 2012-11-13
Information last updated: 2013-04-25
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