MarBEF

UK Royal Navy Marine Mammal Observations

Citation

UK Royal Navy. UK Royal Navy Marine Mammal Observations. In: OBIS-SEAMAP . OBIS-SEAMAP, http://seamap.env.duke.edu, 2006-12-07 10:09:57-05, vector digital data. https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/1994

Access data

Archived data

Availability:

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

Description

Dataset information available at http://seamap.env.duke.edu/datasets/detail/64 more

THe RN often operate in remote areas and it is hoped that by collecting this sort of data the RN may be able to contribute to a better scientific understanding of cetacean distributions/ breeding areas/ migration routese etc. By ensuring that RN personnel keep watch for cetaceans this helps them to comply with current risk mitigation measures.

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

Geographical coverage

EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations

Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -122,43; MinLat: -74,65 - MaxLong: 159,23; MaxLat: 70,33 [WGS84]

World Oceans [Marine Regions]

Temporal coverage

1947 - 2003

Contributor

United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO), data owner

Related datasets

Published in:

EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more

OBIS-SEAMAP: Spatial Ecological Analysis of Megavertebrate Populations