IMIS

PONTUS-BIOFAC Black sea bottlenose dolphin sightings

Citation

Valchev, K. 2023. PONTUS-BIOFAC Black sea bottlenose dolphin sightings. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/2277) on yyyy-mm-dd. https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/8562

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Access data

Archived data

Availability:

This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Description

The present database is intended to serve as a catalogue for photo-identification of bottlenose dolphins in the Bulgarian Black Sea area. It is part of a larger study of cetaceans in the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of Bulgaria and in NATURA 2000 protected areas where the species is subject to conservation. Purpose: Аims to provide information on population structure, seasonal migrations and distribution patterns of bottlenose dolphins in the Bulgarian waters of the Black sea.

Supplemental information: It is intended to be updated periodically.

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

Keywords:

Marine/Coastal, Bio-geographical regions, Biota, Environment, Geoscientific Information, Habitats and biotopes, Metadata non conformant, Metadata not evaluated, No limitations to public access, Occurrence, Oceans, Sea regions, WGS84 (EPSG:4326), XYZ ASCII, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, MED, Black Sea, Tursiops truncatus ponticus Barabash-Nikiforov, 1940

Geographical coverage

EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations

Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: 28,3765; MinLat: 42,1037 - MaxLong: 28,3765; MaxLat: 42,1037 [WGS84]

MED, Black Sea [Marine Regions]

Temporal coverage

From 16 July 2023 on []

Taxonomic coverage

Tursiops truncatus ponticus Barabash-Nikiforov, 1940 [WoRMS]

Contributor

Duke University; Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, more, dataset publisher

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