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POPA- Fisheries Observer Program of the Azores: Marine mammal sightings in the Azores between 2004 and 2013 recorded by Biosphere Expedition
Citable as data publication
Machete, M.; Institute of Marine Research (IMAR), Portugal; Department of Oceanography and Fisheries, University of the Azores (DOP/UAC), Portugal; (2014): POPA- Fisheries Observer Program of the Azores: Marine mammal sightings in the Azores between 2004 and 2013 recorded by Biosphere Expedition. https://doi.org/10.14284/21
Contact: Catarino, Diana ; Machete, Miguel

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

Description
Sightings (snap shots) of marine mammals collected by Biosphere Expeditions collaborators specifically for POPA. Since 2004 Biosphere Expeditions (www.biosphere-expeditions.org) collects data for POPA in the Azores central group in April and May. more

For more detailed information on the dataset, including abundances estimates, please contact data owner (miguel@uac.pt)

Scope
Themes:
Biology > Mammals
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Archipelagic waters, Coastal fisheries, ANE, Azores, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, Mammalia

Geographical coverage
ANE, Azores [Marine Regions]
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -38,5958; MinLat: 28,6667 - MaxLong: -26,53; MaxLat: 39,5481 [WGS84]

Temporal coverage
2004 - 2013

Taxonomic coverage
Mammalia [WoRMS]

Parameter
Animal sightings

Contributors
Biosphere Expeditions
Hammer, Matthias
University of the Azores; Department of Oceanography and Fisheries (DOP), moredata creator
Prieto, Rui
Machete, Miguel
Silva, Mónica
Catarino, Diana
Institute of Marine Research (IMAR)data creator

Related datasets
Parent dataset:
POPA: Azores Fisheries Observation Programme: POPA cetacean, seabird, and sea turtle sightings in the Azores area
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more
(Partly) included in:
Gridded abundance maps of marine mammals around the Azores

Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Monitoring: field survey
Metadatarecord created: 2015-01-16
Information last updated: 2022-08-01
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