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Florida Manatee Mortality 1974-2010

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

Description
The primary use of this dataset is to display reported manatee carcass recovery locations and associated attributes, such as cause of death. more

This dataset contains data from the geographic information system (GIS) shapefile of recovered Florida manatee (Trichechus manatus latirostris) carcass locations within Florida from April 1974 through to the latest spatially verified data presently available. Locations are based both on coordinates provided by field staff (gathered either by geographic positioning system [GPS] or by using navigation charts to ascertain latitudes and longitudes) and maps provided by the field staff. Fish and Wildlife Research Institute (FWRI) GIS staff in the Marine Mammal subsection verify that the provided coordinates match the intent of the plotted location. Points representing carcass locations were entered into a GIS using a digital shoreline basemap taken largely from NOAA navigation charts (1:40,000) and from USGS quadrangles (1:24,000). The scale is considered to be 1:40,000. Prior to July 1, 2004, the Fish and Wildlife Research Institute (FWRI) was known as the Florida Marine Research Institute (FMRI).

Counts were not available and filled with "1"; time was not available and filled with "00:00:00." These were noted in the [Notes] field.

7/21/2011: This dataset, originally containing data from 1974-2008, was updated to include 2009-2010 data.

11/11/2011: This dataset, originally containing data from 1974-early 2010, was updated to include data through December 2010 data.


Scope
Themes:
Biology > Mammals
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, A, North Atlantic, ASW, Mexico Gulf, Trichechus manatus latirostris (Harlan, 1824)

Geographical coverage
A, North Atlantic [Marine Regions]
ASW, Mexico Gulf [Marine Regions]

Temporal coverage
3 April 1974 - 31 December 2010

Taxonomic coverage
Trichechus manatus latirostris (Harlan, 1824) [WoRMS]

Contributor
Fish and Wildlife Research Institute (FWRI), moredata owner

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

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Dataset information:

Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Monitoring: field survey
Metadatarecord created: 2012-11-14
Information last updated: 2012-11-14
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