Description
The National Whale and Dolphin Sightings and Strandings Database records reported sightings of whales and dolphins in Australian waters and maintains details of stranding events around the Australian coastline. This resource currently only show the sighting records.
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.
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.
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has not been registered with GBIF
Keywords
Occurrence; Observation; Animal behaviour
External data
The resource data is also available in other formats
| Online dataset | http://iobis.org/explore/#/dataset/567 UTF-8 HTML |
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| Metadata | http://www.vliz.be/imis/iobis/imis.php?module=dataset&dasid=966 UTF-8 HTML |
Contacts
- Metadata Provider ●
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Custodian Steward
Geographic Coverage
Australia - http://marineregions.org/mrgid/2147
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Additional Metadata
marine, harvested by iOBIS
| Alternative Identifiers | http://ipt.iobis.org/obis/resource?id=imis_dasid_966 |
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