Integrated Marine Information System

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, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, Geoscientific Information, Habitats and biotopes, MED, Black Sea, Metadata non conformant, Metadata not evaluated, No limitations to public access, Occurrence, Oceans, Sea regions, WGS84 (EPSG:4326), XYZ ASCII, 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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