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	<keywords><theme><themekt>None</themekt><themekey>Land-based</themekey><themekey>Sightings</themekey><themekey>Stranding</themekey></theme><place><placekt>None</placekt><placekey>Black Sea</placekey></place></keywords>
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	<abstract>Cetaceans' strandings along Bulgarian Black Sea coast compiled and recorded within Green Balkans NGO's Cetacean Monitoring and Conservation Program.</abstract><purpose>Data was collected within Green Balkans NGO's Cetacean Monitoring and Conservation Program and aims to monitor species composition and temporal and spatial trends in stranded cetaceans along Bulgarian coast.</purpose><supplinf>[2023-01-17] Data since 2011 were added.&#13;
Time was not provided and "00:00:00" was used.&#13;
Species column shows the scientific name at the species level. Actual identification should be at the subspecies level if possible.</supplinf></descript>
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		<citeinfo><origin>Popov, D. and Meshkova, G.</origin><pubdate>2022</pubdate><title>Cetacean strandings along Bulgarian Black Sea coast 2010-2022</title><serinfo><sername>Green Balkans NGO Cetacean Monitoring and Conservation Program</sername></serinfo></citeinfo>
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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&#13;
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3. Not to hold OBIS-SEAMAP or the original data providers liable for errors in the data. While we have made every effort to ensure the quality of the database, we cannot guarantee the accuracy of these datasets. &#13;
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4. The burden for determining fitness for use of the downloaded data for any analyses lies entirely with the user. OBIS-SEAMAP or the original data providers do not support outcomes of your analyses that used the data you downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP.&#13;
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5. To consider inclusion of the accompanying transect (effort) dataset if available into the methodology of your analyses.&#13;
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			<cntperp><cntper>Popov Dimitar</cntper><cntorg>Green Balkans NGO</cntorg></cntperp>
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			<address>1 Skopie Str., office 10</address><city>Plovdiv</city><state/><postal>4013</postal><country>Bulgaria</country></cntaddr>
		<cntpos/><cntemail>dpopov@greenbalkans.org</cntemail><cntvoice>+359 32 626 977</cntvoice><cntfax>+359 (0) 32 635 921</cntfax></cntinfo>
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			<cntper>Ei Fujioka</cntper>
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	<distliab>Not to hold OBIS-SEAMAP liable for errors in the data. While we have made every effort to ensure the quality of the database, we cannot guarantee the accuracy of these datasets.&#13;
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	</spatRepInfo><eainfo><overview><eaover>This section explains attributes included in the original dataset.&#13;
OBIS-SEAMAP restricts the attributes available to the public to date/time, lat/lon and species names/counts only.&#13;
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