IMIS | Lifewatch regional portal

You are here

IMIS

[ report an error in this record ] Print this page

Duke Harbor Porpoise Tracking
Citation
Read, A.J. and A.J. Westgate. 1997. Monitoring the movements of harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) with satellite telemetry. Marine Biology. 130: 315-322. https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/3274
Contact: Read, Andrew

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

Notes: Only data aggregated per 1-degree cell are available through OBIS. The non-aggregated data are available through the OBIS-SEAMAP Portal

Description
These data were obtained from harbor porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) equipped with satellite-linked transmitters in the Gulf of Maine. All porpoises were obtained from herring weirs on the island of Grand Manan, New Brunswick, Canada (44 deg 45' N, 67 deg 45' W) during the summer months (July - September). Details on each porpoise are given in the summary table. Positional data are obtained via Service ARGOS (http://www.argosinc.com/). See Read and Westgate (1997) for complete details of tagging methods.

Scope
Themes:
Biology > Mammals
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, A, North Atlantic, Cetacea

Geographical coverage
A, North Atlantic [Marine Regions]

Temporal coverage
13 August 1995 - 22 November 2000

Taxonomic coverage
Cetacea [WoRMS]

Contributors
Duke University; Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences; Marine Laboratory, moredata owner

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

Publication
Based on this dataset
Read, A.J.; Westgate, A.J. (1997). Monitoring the movements of harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) with satellite telemetry. Mar. Biol. (Berl.) 130(2): 315-322. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s002270050251, more

URL
Dataset information:

Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Monitoring: field survey
Metadatarecord created: 2012-11-12
Information last updated: 2012-11-13
All data in the Integrated Marine Information System (IMIS) is subject to the VLIZ privacy policy