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Adriatic Shipping Company marine mammal sightings in the Adriatic Sea 1988-2000
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Contact: Giovagnoli, Luca
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Description

Research on marine mammals was conducted in 1988-2006 and sightings were collected from each ferry on the Adriatic Sea. The lines included: Italy, Yugoslavia, Albania, and Greece. We had 175 sightings in 12 years. For each sighting, we collected: date, time, weather condition, sea position, numbers of animals, kind of animals, depth and so on.

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This research was conducted to observe and study the biological competition between humans and dolphins (both of them are catching blue fish). All of the data collected was used for the thesis degree of Luca Giovagnoli at Parma University - Vet Medicine.

Data provided to OBIS-SEAMAP are from 1988-2000 and other years of data from this project are currently being worked on.

Erroneous points (i.e., on land or otherwise) were excluded.

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 > Mammals
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Anthropogenic effects, Bio-geographical regions, Biota, Environment, Geoscientific Information, Habitats and biotopes, Metadata non conformant, Metadata not evaluated, No limitations to public access, Oceans, Sea regions, self-propelled boat, WGS84 (EPSG:4326), XYZ ASCII, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, MED, Mediterranean, Delphinidae Gray, 1821, Delphinus delphis Linnaeus, 1758, Grampus griseus (G. Cuvier, 1812), Physeter macrocephalus Linnaeus, 1758, Stenella coeruleoalba (Meyen, 1833), Tursiops truncatus (Montagu, 1821)
Geographical coverage
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: 12,5306; MinLat: 37,33 - MaxLong: 19,29; MaxLat: 45,29 [WGS84]
MED, Mediterranean [Marine Regions]
Temporal coverage
11 January 1988 - 26 March 1998
Taxonomic coverage
Delphinidae Gray, 1821 [WoRMS]
Delphinus delphis Linnaeus, 1758 [WoRMS]
Grampus griseus (G. Cuvier, 1812) [WoRMS]
Physeter macrocephalus Linnaeus, 1758 [WoRMS]
Stenella coeruleoalba (Meyen, 1833) [WoRMS]
Tursiops truncatus (Montagu, 1821) [WoRMS]
Contributors
CetaceanSound.org, data owner
Giovagnoli, Luca
Related datasets
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System
OBIS-SEAMAP: Spatial Ecological Analysis of Megavertebrate Populations
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Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research: field survey
Release date: 2013-02-14
Metadatarecord created: 2012-11-12
Information last updated: 2025-03-26
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