OCCURRENCE

Strandings of Oceania

Latest version published by Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme on 18 November 2022 Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme
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
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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.

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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

Who created the resource:

Karen Baird
Threatened and Migratory Species Adviser
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environmental Program
Apia
WS
Hannah Hendriks
Migratory Marine Species Conservation Officer (Secondment)
SPREP

Who can answer questions about the resource:

Karen Baird
Threatened and Migratory Species Adviser
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environmental Program
Apia
WS

Who filled in the metadata:

Daffodil Wase
Assistant Chief of Quarantine
Ministry of Natural Resources and Commerce
PO Box 1727
96960 Majuro
MH
MH
+6924573985
Kennedy Kaneko
National Invasive Species Coordinator-RMI
Secretariate of the Pacific Regional Environmental Program
Majuro
MH
MH

Who else was associated with the resource:

Point Of Contact
Karen Baird
Threatened and Migratory Species Adviser
Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environmental Program
Apia
WS
Programmer
Ainsof So'o
Node Manager
SPREP

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]

Taxonomic Coverage

N/A

Kingdom  Animanlia

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 1991-01-01 / 2019-11-18

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
Identifier BID-PA2020-004-REG

The personnel involved in the project:

Point Of Contact
Karen Baird

Collection Data

Collection Name Stranding of Oceania Database protocols
Specimen preservation methods Other

Additional Metadata