Historical strandings of cetaceans on the Portuguese coast ...
Original provider: Escola de Mar Dataset credits: Escola de Mar Abstract: Large whale strandings have always been intriguing to people through the centuries. The size and strangeness of these events always attracted popular attention and were, later on, a source for food, oil and other products. Our...
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ftdatacite:10.15468/nfsk5a 2024-09-09T19:31:41+00:00 Historical strandings of cetaceans on the Portuguese coast ... Sousa, Andreia ACCOBAMS And WDCS 2021 https://dx.doi.org/10.15468/nfsk5a https://www.gbif.org/dataset/642ab4a1-21e9-4ec8-b03f-9ccd2f8e7721 en eng OBIS-SEAMAP Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode cc-by-nc-4.0 Occurrence,Land-based,Sightings Observation Occurrence OCCURRENCE Dataset dataset 2021 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.15468/nfsk5a 2024-06-17T08:44:37Z Original provider: Escola de Mar Dataset credits: Escola de Mar Abstract: Large whale strandings have always been intriguing to people through the centuries. The size and strangeness of these events always attracted popular attention and were, later on, a source for food, oil and other products. Our goal was to document species occurrence over time along the mainland coast of Portugal through the use of historical records as they can provide useful information on cetaceans' species. A total of 38 historical records from the 16th to the 20th Centuries were collected from several Portuguese institutes and personal archives. Results show an increasing awareness of the scientific importance of strandings reflected throughout the years in number and in the detail of the strandings. The most common stranded species recorded was Physeter macrocephalus followed by Balaenoptera physalus . Even though historical stranding records are sparse for mainland Portugal, the information gathered indicates a high diversity of ... Dataset Balaenoptera physalus Physeter macrocephalus DataCite |
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Original provider: Escola de Mar Dataset credits: Escola de Mar Abstract: Large whale strandings have always been intriguing to people through the centuries. The size and strangeness of these events always attracted popular attention and were, later on, a source for food, oil and other products. Our goal was to document species occurrence over time along the mainland coast of Portugal through the use of historical records as they can provide useful information on cetaceans' species. A total of 38 historical records from the 16th to the 20th Centuries were collected from several Portuguese institutes and personal archives. Results show an increasing awareness of the scientific importance of strandings reflected throughout the years in number and in the detail of the strandings. The most common stranded species recorded was Physeter macrocephalus followed by Balaenoptera physalus . Even though historical stranding records are sparse for mainland Portugal, the information gathered indicates a high diversity of ... |
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