Dolphins validated sightings reported in the Mediterranean Sea from 2019 onwards by avvistAPP users
Citation
Tirelli V, Goruppi A (2024): Dolphins validated sightings reported by avvistAPP users. v3.4. National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics. Dataset/Samplingevent. https://doi.org/10.13120/awym8v https://doi.org/10.13120/3524-gy91
Contact:
Tirelli, Valentina Availability:
![]() Description
Sampling Methods
avvistAPP is a free citizen science tool that allows everyone to actively contribute to the monitoring of marine animals. Available both in Google and Apple app stores. App description: https://doi.org/10.13120/h127-9v54
Study Extent Mediterranean Sea from 2019 onwards.
Method step description:
The reported sightings are validated by researchers. 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 Themes: Biology > Mammals Keywords: Marine/Coastal, Bio-geographical regions, Biota, Citizen science, Environment, Geoscientific Information, Habitats and biotopes, Metadata non conformant, Metadata not evaluated, No limitations to public access, Oceans, Sea regions, WGS84 (EPSG:4326), XYZ ASCII, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, MED, MED, Adriatic Sea, MED, Tyrrhenian Sea, Stenella coeruleoalba (Meyen, 1833), Tursiops truncantus Montagu, 1821 Geographical coverage EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box Coordinates: MinLong: 0,704; MinLat: 0,0997 - MaxLong: 20,5261; MaxLat: 45,7844 [WGS84] Mediterranean [Marine Regions] MED, Adriatic Sea [Marine Regions] MED, Tyrrhenian Sea [Marine Regions] Temporal coverage
2 September 2019 - 31 July 2022 Taxonomic coverage
Parameter
Count (in assayed sample) of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC] Contributors
Related datasets
Published in: EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more
URLs
Dataset information: Other: Dataset status: In Progress
Data type: Data
Data origin: Citizen science
Release date: 2022-01-26
Metadatarecord created: 2021-12-16
Information last updated: 2025-03-26
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