MarBEF

Marine Turtles

Citation

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

Contact: Penrose, Rod

Access data

Archived data

Availability:

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

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.

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 > Reptiles

Keywords:

Marine/Coastal, Aquatic reptiles, Biodiversity, Bio-geographical regions, Biota, British Isles, Eire, Environment, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, Geoscientific Information, Habitats and biotopes, Marine, Metadata non conformant, Metadata not evaluated, No limitations to public access, Oceans, Sea regions, WGS84 (EPSG:4326), XYZ ASCII, ANE, British Isles, ANE, Ireland, 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