MarBEF Data System

Marine Turtles

Citation

National Biodiversity Network Trust. Marine Turtles. National Biodiversity Network Trust, Newark, UK. https://doi.org/10.15468/fyt9hw

Contact: Penrose, Rod

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Description

Sightings and strandings of both dead and alive marine turtles in the British Isles and the Republic of Ireland. more

Quality control: Location references have been checked for all records. Additional information: Annual Reports at http://www.strandings.com/Wales.html.

Scope

Themes:

Biology > Reptiles

Keywords:

Marine/Coastal, Aquatic reptiles, Biodiversity, Marine, ANE, British Isles, ANE, Ireland, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, Testudines

Geographical coverage

ANE, British Isles [Marine Regions]

ANE, Ireland [Marine Regions]

EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations

Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -16; MinLat: 44,3853 - MaxLong: 6,0333; MaxLat: 63,76 [WGS84]

Temporal coverage

From 1748 on [In Progress]

Taxonomic coverage

Testudines [WoRMS]

Parameters

Animal sightings
Strandings

Contributors

National Biodiversity Network Trust (NBN), more, data owner, data provider

Marine Environmental Monitoring, data creator

Penrose, Rod

Marine Biological Association of the UK (MBA), more, data provider

Related datasets

Published in:

EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more

URLs

Dataset information:

https://data.nbn.org.uk/Datasets/GA000167

Other:

http://www.strandings.com/Wales.html

Dataset status: In Progress

Data type: Data

Data origin: Monitoring: field survey

Release date: 2006-01-24

Metadatarecord created: 2006-01-24

Information last updated: 2014-04-14

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