SMRU Grey Seal UK 1991-1993
Sea Mammal Research Unit, University of St. Andrews
Dataset credit
Sea Mammal Research Unit (SMRU), University of St. Andrews
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Contacts
Role | Name | Organization | |
Primary contact |
Kelly Macleod |
Sea Mammal Research Unit, Scottish Oceans Institute, University of St. Andrews |
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Data entry |
Benjamin Best |
Duke University |
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Citation
Macleod, K. 2012. SMRU Grey Seal UK 1991-1993. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/71) 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
The movements of 14 grey seals Halichoerus grypus Fab. caught at the Farnes in north-east England (n = 12) and Abertay in eastern Scotland (n = 2) between August 1991 and July 1993 were investigated using Argos Satellite Relay Data Loggers (SRDL). The data are a spreadsheet of points representing seal locations. The low and irregular uplink rate from an SRDL on a seal to the Argos satellites can result in potentially significant errors in some location fixes. Therefore, locations were filtered using an algorithm based on a [maximum speed parameter] of 2 m s-1. This filter rejected 17% of the primary locations that would have required an unrealistic rate of travel to achieve. However, this does not remove all invalid locations hence there are still some data points occurring inland. There are 9,454 locations in the spreadsheet covering all months of the year except February and March.
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Purpose
Grey seals Halichoerus grypus Fab. are large, numerous marine top predators. The British population in 1994 was estimated to be 108,000 individuals and it has been steadily increasing since. Fears concerning competition with fisheries have prompted calls for control measures under the UK Conservation of Seals Act 1970. However, little is known about the areas where grey seals forage or of the distances they may travel. Management must be based on an understanding of the complex seal-fishery interactions, a component of which is having information on the temporal and spatial distribution of seals.
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Supplemental information
N/A
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References
Sea Mammal Research Unit. Grey seal tracking in the North Sea, 1991-1993.
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Attributes
Overview
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 |
series | Tag ID |
date | Date of the observation |
time | Time of the observation |
latitude | Latitude in decimal degrees |
longitude | Longitude in decimal degrees |
lq | Location quality |
species | scientific name |
geom | Geometry field added by OBIS-SEAMAP |
oid | Unique ID number (generated by OBIS-SEAMAP) |
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OBIS-SEAMAP ID | 71 |
Seabirds | 0 |
Marine mammals | 9,454 |
Sea turtles | 0 |
Rays and sharks | 0 |
Other species | 0 |
Non spatial | 0 |
Non species | 0 |
Total | 9,454 |
Date, Begin | 1991-08-22 |
Date, End | 1993-12-25 |
Temporal prec. | 111111 |
Latitude | 50.69 - 62.35 |
Longitude | -18.89 - 3.95 |
Coord. prec. | 3 decimal digits |
Platform | Tag |
Data type | Telemetry location |
Tracklines | N/A |
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Traveled (km) | 0 |
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Registered | 2004-03-11 |
Updated | 2012-07-31 |
Status | Published |
Sharing policy |
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