Whale Catches in the Southern Ocean

Overview: 

Season whale catches in the Southern Ocean compiled by the Austrailian Antarctic Data Center are available at OBIS. The OBIS compiled data includes species name, individual count, lat/lon, and some environmental correlates like depth and salinity. 

Dataset Location: OBIS Southern Ocean Whale Catches

Direct Download: OBIS Southern Ocean Whale Catches

Site Location: Southern Ocean, Antarctic Coast

Site(s) Georeferenced: Yes

Timespan: 1932 - 1980

Sampling Frequency: annual

Data Collection Summary / Methods: Include details on sampling protocol, spatial scales, technologies used, etc.

Data collected: Data has been aggregated from the International Whaling Commission records into one degree cells centered on the reported position.

Six whale species are reported - Blue, Fin, Sei, Sperm, Minke and Humpback.

OBIS data schema: species name, individual count, date, location, temperature, depth, salinity, nitrogen, oxygen, silicate.

Known Issues: weaknesses, limitations, errors, caveats, etc.

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Conditions for use: 'freely available' and 'open-access' as per OBIS: http://iobis.org/about/vision

From the Austrailian Antarctic Data Center - "The scientific data on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License."

Citation/ Distributing Author: Watts, Dave John (2006, updated 2014) Whale catches in the Southern Ocean Australian Antarctic Data Centre - CAASM Metadata (https://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/metadata_redirect.cfm?md=/AMD/AU/IWC_Whale_catch)

Supplemental resources: Austrailian Antarctic Data Center - https://www1.data.antarctica.gov.au/

AADC Collection Details - https://www1.data.antarctica.gov.au/aadc/biodiversity/display_collection...

Available via the EcoData Retriever: No

 

Last modified: 
2015
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