Description
Stranded whales and dolphins are a valuable source of information on species identity and diversity, particularly for many of the remote and inaccessible regions of the South Pacific. To improve understanding of whale and dolphin populations in the Pacific, and possibly improve understanding of their threats, a concerted effort is needed to document strandings and incidental sightings
Data Records
The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 74 records.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Versions
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Baird K, Hendriks H (2022): Strandings of Oceania. v1.2. No organization. Dataset/Occurrence. https://training-ipt-a.gbif.org/resource?r=whales-pacific-date&v=1.2
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme. To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: c67e4142-9bc2-4edf-b937-13c8ddfd5562. Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Participant Node Managers Committee.
Keywords
Occurrence; Observation
Contacts
- Originator ●
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Geographic Coverage
The data is based on the islands listed: Kiribati, Samoa, Tonga, New Caledonia, Niue, Cook Islands, French Polynesia, and Vanuatu.
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-52.372, -165.938], North East [1.406, -90] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
N/A
| Kingdom | Animanlia |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 1991-01-01 / 2019-11-18 |
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Project Data
The Strandings of Oceania database is a collaborative project between SPREP, WildMe and the South Pacific Whale Research Consortium to record stranding and beachcast data for whales, dolphins and dugongs throughout the Pacific. We use a platform called Flukebook.
| Title | Enhancing Capacity in the Pacific Region- Strengthening Process for Invasive Species and Biodiversity DATA Mobilization |
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| Identifier | BID-PA2020-004-REG |
The personnel involved in the project:
- Point Of Contact
Collection Data
| Collection Name | Stranding of Oceania Database protocols |
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| Specimen preservation methods | Other |
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Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | https://ipt.sprep.org/resource?r=strandings-of-oceania |
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