MarBEF

Marine Turtles

Citation

National Biodiversity Network Trust. Marine Turtles. National Biodiversity Network Trust, Newark, UK. https://doi.org/10.15468/fyt9hw

Contact: Penrose, Rod

Access data

Archived data

Availability:

This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Description

Sightings and strandings of both dead and alive marine turtles in the British Isles and the Republic of Ireland. more

Quality control: Location references have been checked for all records. Additional information: Annual Reports at http://www.strandings.com/Wales.html.

Lineage

Prior to publication data undergo quality control checked which are described in https://github.com/EMODnet/EMODnetBiocheck?tab=readme-ov-file#understanding-the-output

Scope

Themes:

Biology > Reptiles

Keywords:

Marine/Coastal · Aquatic reptiles · Biodiversity · Bio-geographical regions · Biota · British Isles · Eire · Environment · EurOBIS calculated BBOX · Geoscientific Information · Habitats and biotopes · Marine · Metadata non conformant · Metadata not evaluated · No limitations to public access · Oceans · Sea regions · WGS84 (EPSG:4326) · XYZ ASCII · Ireland · Testudines

Geographical coverage

British Isles [Marine Regions]

EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations

Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -16; MinLat: 44,3853 - MaxLong: 6,0333; MaxLat: 63,76 [WGS84]

Ireland [Marine Regions]

Temporal coverage

From 1748 on [In Progress]

29 January 1908 - 28 December 2011 (EurOBIS harvested data)

Taxonomic coverage

Testudines [WoRMS]

Parameters

Animal sightings
Strandings