Belgian Marine Mammals database

Jan Haelters1, Thomas Vandenberghe2, Thomas Vandenberghe3

1 Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences, 3de en 23ste Linieregimentsplein, 8400, Oostende, Belgium; 2 Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences, Vautierstraat 29, 1000, Brussels, Belgium; 3 

Corresponding author(s): Jan Haelters (jhaelters@naturalsciences.be), Thomas Vandenberghe (tvandenberghe@naturalsciences.be)

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Citation: Combination of authors, year of data paper publication (in parentheses), Title, Journal Name, Volume, Issue number (in parentheses), and doi of the data paper.

Abstract

This database contains all the Belgian observations and strandings contained in the Belgian Marine Mammals database, which can be accessed on www.marinemammals.be.

Keywords: Occurrence, Observation

Data published through GBIF: http://ipt.naturalsciences.be/resource?r=belgian_marine_mammals

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: Marine mammals, i.e. Pinnipeds and Cetaceans.
Taxonomic ranks
Infraorder: Cetacea
Unranked: Pinnipedia

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Belgian part of the North Sea
Coordinates: 51°4'44.4''N and 51°55'12''N Latitude; 2°11'9.6''E and 3°23'45.6''E Longitude 

Temporal coverage: 31 July 1945 - 25 June 2018

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Belgian Marine Mammals database
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: http://ipt.naturalsciences.be/archive.do?r=belgian_marine_mammals
Publication date of data: 2019-05-20
Language: English
Licences of use: Public Domain (CC0 1.0)

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2018-12-03
Hierarchy level: Dataset