Belgian Marine Mammals strandings, observations, airplane sightings and necropsies
As part of the implementation of the Royal Decree on marine species protection in the Belgian national waters, RBINS has to produce annual reports on observations and strandings of marine mammals in Belgium. Additionally, one of the goals of The Agreement on the Conservation of Small Cetaceans (ASCOBANS) is to develop a national network that makes use of a central stranding and tissue sample database. This database is curated at the Belgian Marine Data Centre and can be accessed on http://www.marinemammals.be for retrieval and data entry of strandings, observations and all necropsies of noteworthy Belgian strandings. The dataset details any intervention steps and assesses the possible cause of death both circumstantially and clinically: 'Natural', 'Bycatch', 'Ship strike', 'Predation' and 'other'. These categorizations have been matched to the P01 BODC/NERC vocabulary. For data management background, see Vandenberghe T., Degraer S., Jauniaux, T., Kerckhof F., Rumes B., Scory S., Haelters J. and Toussaint E. (2016). MarineMammals.be: improving marine mammal stranding, by catch and observation data collection. Bollettino di Geofisica Teorica ed Applicata. 57. 199-200.
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- Date (Creation)
- 2019-11-25T18:53:29Z
- Date (Revision)
- 2020-05-27T09:47:01Z
- Date (Publication)
- 2024-04-25T13:40:56.874Z
- Identifier
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bmdc.be:dataset:2260
Belgian Marine Data Centre
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Please cite as follows: 1) GIS layer for bmdc_be_dataset_2260 (Marine mammals WFMS). 2) The Darwin Core Archive on the GBIF portal.3) The Darwin Core Archive on the RBINS IPT.
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- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/
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No limitations on public access.
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No conditions apply to use.
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- Unclassified
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Metadata language
- English
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- Oceans
- gml32:beginPosition
- 1945-07-31
- gml32:endPosition
- 2018-06-25
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG / http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/4258
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text/html
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text/html
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- An HTTP link to download the dataset in HTML: The Darwin Core Archive on the RBINS IPT ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
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text/html
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The Darwin Core Archive on the GBIF portal
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WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
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An HTTP link to download the dataset in HTML: The Darwin Core Archive on the GBIF portal
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mm:bmdc_be_dataset_2260
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OGC:WFS
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A WFS service to download: GIS layer for bmdc_be_dataset_2260 (Marine mammals WFMS)
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mm:bmdc_be_dataset_2260
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OGC:WMS
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A WMS service to view a map of: GIS layer for bmdc_be_dataset_2260 (Marine mammals WFMS)
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- Dataset
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Noteworthy strandings and specific ad hoc observations are entered into an access database and in the marinemammals website/database by RBINS employee Jan Haelters (MUMM). Data entry is limited to RBINS personnel. All small cetacean and pinniped that are performed at the University of Liège are also stored in this system. Quality control is ensured by MUMM, ULg and BMDC. This database is also available on GBIF and via OGC WMS/WFS for GIS applications.
- File identifier
- bmdc.be:dataset:2260 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2024-04-25T13:40:56.874Z
- Metadata standard name
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Geographic information -- Metadata
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ISO 19115:2003/19139