BMM: The Belgian Marine Mammals Database (BMM)
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Haelters, J., Jauniaux, T. (2019) The Belgian marine mammals database. https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/5990
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 This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.Description
The marine mammals website (www.marinemammals.be) in its current form is the result of a long-standing collaboration between RBINS and the University of Liège and provides access to data from 50 years of marine mammal observations in Belgium. The database that backs it consists of two parts, i.e. observations and information on necropsied tissues and subsequent diagnoses on the cause of the death of the animal. The database records all stranding events in Belgium from recent years. The dataset provides the occurrences and associated data like putative circumstances and putative cause of death. Scope Themes: Biology > Mammals Keywords: Marine/Coastal, Belgian part of the North Sea, Belgium coast, Sea mammals, Strandings, ANE, Belgium, Belgian Continental Shelf (BCS), EurOBIS calculated BBOX, Cetacea, Pinnipedia Geographical coverage ANE, Belgium, Belgian Continental Shelf (BCS) [Marine Regions] EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box Coordinates: MinLong: 0,2167; MinLat: 50,5167 - MaxLong: 4,8918; MaxLat: 52,5186 [WGS84] Temporal coverage
31 July 1945 - 25 June 2019 Parameters
Blubber thickness of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC] Categorisation (as living or non-living) of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC] Data collections Development stage of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC] Length of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC] Likelihood category of death from fishing by-catch of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC] Likelihood category of death from natural causes of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC] Likelihood category of death from predation of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC] Likelihood category of death from ship strike of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC] Nutritional status category of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC] Specimen decomposition stage code of biological entity specified elsewhere by classification according to Rowles et al (2001) [BODC] Specimen weight of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC] Contributors
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Published in: EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Data collection
Metadatarecord created: 2018-07-20
Information last updated: 2019-08-06
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