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Happywhale - Atlantic gray seal in North Atlantic Ocean

Citation

Happywhale. 2021. Happywhale - Atlantic gray seal in North Atlantic Ocean. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1934) on yyyy-mm-dd originated from Happywhale.com. https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/8555

Contact: Cheeseman, Ted ;

Access data

Archived data

Availability:

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

Description

Original provider: Happywhale Dataset credits: Happywhale and contributors Abstract: Happywhale.com is a resource to help you know whales as individuals, and to benefit conservation science with rich data about individual whales. Supplemental information: Sightings and images were submitted to Happywhale by contributors. A portion of the Happywhale data were transferred to OBIS-SEAMAP upon the agreement between Happywhale and OBIS-SEAMAP. There may be duplicate records among Happywhale datasets and other OBIS-SEAMAP datasets. The precision of date/time vary per record. Some records have date accuracy up to year only. This dataset includes sightings and photos from the following 3 contributors in alphabetic order: Caitlin Fitzmaurice; Drew Collins; Rémi Bigonneau

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

Keywords:

Marine/Coastal · Bio-geographical regions · Biota · Environment · EurOBIS calculated BBOX · Geoscientific Information · Habitats and biotopes · Metadata non conformant · Metadata not evaluated · No limitations to public access · Occurrence · Oceans · Sea regions · WGS84 (EPSG:4326) · XYZ ASCII · Halichoerus grypus (Fabricius, 1791)

Geographical coverage

EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations

Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -70,6944; MinLat: 42,0799 - MaxLong: 10,8906; MaxLat: 53,9621 [WGS84]

Temporal coverage

18 November 2018 - 10 June 2021

18 November 2018 - 20 July 2024 (EurOBIS harvested data)

Taxonomic coverage

Halichoerus grypus (Fabricius, 1791) [WoRMS]

Parameter

Count (in assayed sample) of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC] (EurOBIS harvested data)

Contributors

Happywhale, data creator, data owner