Southern elephant seal (Mirounga leonina) from Peninsula Valdes from 1992 to 2008. Not continuous data.

This dataset was obtained as part of the Darwin Plus- funded project 'Marine Spatial Planning for the Falkland Islands' (July 2014-July 2016). The dataset is a subset of the GIS Database of the World Conservation Society (WCS) entitled Sea and Sky Project containing more than 290.000 localisations of 17 species of seabirds and marine mammals. Further information can be retrieved online at the Atlas of the Patagonian Sea www.atlas-marpatagonico.org

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Last Updated December 14, 2020, 09:52 (PST)
Created January 30, 2020, 05:20 (PST)
Region Falkland Islands
Language eng
Topic Category Biota; flora and/or fauna in natural environment
Temporal Extent Start 1992-01-01
Temporal Extent End 2008-12-31
Dataset Reference Date 2008
Lineage Remote tracking data for the Southern Elephant Sea (Mirounga leonina) from the breeding colony of Peninsula Valdes. ARGOS satellite (and one GLS) tags were deployed on adult (A) and juvenile (J) female (F) and male (M) Southern elephant seals over the period 1998 to 2008 by Claudio Campagna and his team (World Conservation Society) on the Peninsula Valdez (Argentina), and 18 animals went in Falkland Islands waters. The raw ARGOS locations of the se animals when they were within the EEZ of the Falkland with a 50km buffer were provided as an excel file through an open-access database and reformatted to be transformed in a shapefile.
West Longitude -63.5311
South Latitude -56.2435
East Longitude -52.3465
North Latitude -47.7253
Spatial Reference System WGS84
Responsible Organisation Name Hidden (personal data protection)
Contact Mail Address Hidden (personal data protection)
Responsible Party Role Hidden (personal data protection)
Access Limitations Restricted, send data request to data owner
Use Constraints Open, but copyright and/or Intellectual Property Rights apply
Resource Reference Please acknowledge data source as: SAERI Marine Spatial Planning. A Darwin PLUS Initiative project funded by the UK government
Data Format excel
Update Frequency unknown
Accuracy Up to 1.5 km (no accuracy estimation for some dataset, quality code A, B)
Resource Type Dataseries
Original Title Hidden (internal use only)
Metadata Date 2015-03-30
Metadata Point of Contact datamanager@saeri.ac.fk
Contact Consent Contact details hidden
Unique Resource ID FK-WCS-191

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