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StrandSIC: Stranded cetaceans and sea turtles along the Sicilian coasts and waters (years 2014-2018) [Cetacei e tartarughe marine spiaggiati nelle coste siciliane (anni 2014-2018)]
Citation
Monaco, Clara; Garofalo, Dario; Pellegrino, Giuliana; MareCamp Association; (2020); Stranded cetaceans and sea turtles along the Sicilian coasts and waters (years 2014-2018). https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/6528
Contact: Monaco, Clara ;

Access data
Archived data
Availability: Creative Commons License This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Description
Data on stranded cetaceans and sea turtles along the Sicilian coast and waters, in the framework of the project "Dolphin watching and conservation in the gulf of Catania" and the "Report a sighting and help the research" initiative promoted by the MareCamp association.

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, Biology > Reptiles
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Bio-geographical regions, Biota, Citizen science, Environment, Geoscientific Information, Habitats and biotopes, Metadata non conformant, Metadata not evaluated, No limitations to public access, Oceans, Sea regions, Visual observation, WGS84 (EPSG:4326), XYZ ASCII, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, MED, Ionian Sea, Caretta caretta (Linnaeus, 1758), Cheloniidae Oppel, 1811, Delphinidae Gray, 1821, Stenella coeruleoalba (Meyen, 1833)

Geographical coverage
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: 15,0863; MinLat: 36,909 - MaxLong: 15,2034; MaxLat: 37,5613 [WGS84]
MED, Ionian Sea [Marine Regions]

Temporal coverage
2014 - 2018

Taxonomic coverage
Caretta caretta (Linnaeus, 1758) [WoRMS]
Cheloniidae Oppel, 1811 [WoRMS]
Delphinidae Gray, 1821 [WoRMS]
Stenella coeruleoalba (Meyen, 1833) [WoRMS]

Parameters

Count (in assayed sample) of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC]
Development stage of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC]
Gender of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC]
Length (total length) of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC]
Specimen decomposition stage code of biological entity specified elsewhere by classification according to Rowles et al (2001) [BODC]

Contributors
Associazione Marecamp ODVdata creatordata provider
Monaco, Clara
Garofalo, Dario
Raffa, Alessandra
Pellegrino, Giuliana

Related datasets
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System


Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Citizen science
Release date: 2022-12-06
Metadatarecord created: 2020-06-26
Information last updated: 2025-03-26
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