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NOAA Atlantic bottlenose dolphin sightings in the coastal and estuarine waters near Charleston, SC - 1994-2011
NOAA, Center for Coastal Environmental Health and Biomolecular Research
Dataset credit
NOAA, National Ocean Service, National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, Center for Coastal Environmental Health and Biomolecular Research
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Contacts
| Role | Name | Organization | |
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| Primary contact |
Todd Speakman |
NOAA/National Ocean Service |
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| Data entry |
Connie Kot |
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Citation
Speakman, T. 2011. NOAA Atlantic bottlenose dolphin sightings in the coastal and estuarine waters near Charleston, SC - 1994-2011. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/737) on yyyy-mm-dd. Halpin, P.N., A.J. Read, E. Fujioka, B.D. Best, B. Donnelly, L.J. Hazen, C. Kot, K. Urian, E. LaBrecque, A. Dimatteo, J. Cleary, C. Good, L.B. Crowder, and K.D. Hyrenbach. 2009. OBIS-SEAMAP: The world data center for marine mammal, sea bird, and sea turtle distributions. Oceanography. 22(2):104-115.
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Abstract
N/A
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Purpose
N/A
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Supplemental information
Records without time information were filled with 00:00:00.
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References
Zolman, E. 2002. Residence patterns of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in the Stono River estuary, Charleston County, South Carolina, USA. Marine Mammal Science. 18(4): 879-892. Speakman, T.R., S.M. Lane, L.H. Schwacke, P.A. Fair, and E.S. Zolman. 2010. Mark-recapture estimates of seasonal abundance and survivorship for bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) near Charleston, South Carolina, USA. Journal of Cetacean Research and Management. 11(2): 153-162.
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Attributes
Overview
This section explains attributes included in the original dataset.
OBIS-SEAMAP restricts the attributes available to the public to date/time, lat/lon and species names/counts only.
Should you need other attributes described here, you are encouraged to contact the data provider.
Attributes described below represent those in the original dataset provided by the provider.
Only minimum required attributes are visible and downloadable online. Other attributes may be obtained upon provider's permission.
Attributes in dataset
| Attribute (table column) | Description |
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| oid | Unique ID number (generated by SEAMAP) |
| surveynum | Survey number |
| sighting | |
| obs_date | Observed date |
| obs_time | Observed time |
| latitude | Latitude of observation |
| longitude | Longitude of observation |
| sp_obs | Species observed |
| sp_tsn | Species ITIS TSN |
| obs_count | Observed count |
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| OBIS-SEAMAP ID | 737 |
| Seabirds | 0 |
| Marine mammals | 8,154 |
| Sea turtles | 0 |
| Rays and sharks | 0 |
| Other species | 0 |
| Non spatial | 0 |
| Non species | 0 |
| Total | 8,154 |
| Date, Begin | 1994-02-14 |
| Date, End | 2011-03-17 |
| Temporal prec. | 111111 |
| Latitude | 32.34 - 33.10 |
| Longitude | -80.43 - -79.25 |
| Coord. prec. | 5 decimal digits |
| Platform | Boat |
| Data type | Animal sighting |
| Effort | N/A |
| Traveled (km) | 0 |
| 0 |
| Contr. through | |
| Registered | 2011-04-26 |
| Updated | 2011-04-26 |
| Status | Published |
Sharing policy |
CC-BY-NC (Minimum) |
| Shared with |
OBIS
GBIF (via DOI) |
| See metadata in static HTML |
| See metadata in FGDC XML |
| See download history / statistics |
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