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The Belgian Marine Mammals Database (BMM)

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.

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Publication Date
2021-12-02
Title

The Belgian Marine Mammals Database (BMM)

Abstract

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.

Dataset Language

en

 
Dataset Creator
  Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen; Operationele Directie Natuurlijk Milieu - Jan Haelters

Dataset Creator
  Université de Liège; Faculté de Médecine Vétérinaire - Thierry Jauniaux

Metadata Provider
  Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ)

BE

https://www.vliz.be
Dataset Contact
  Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ)

BE

https://www.vliz.be
Keywords (ASFA)
  • Belgian part of the North Sea

  • Belgium coast

  • Sea mammals

  • Strandings

Geographic Coverage

Geographic Description

ANE, Belgium, Belgian Continental Shelf (BCS)

Geographic Coverage

Geographic Description

EurOBIS calculated BBOX > station Bounding Box

Bounding Box

West Bounding Coordinate

0.21666666666667

East Bounding Coordinate

4.891804

North Bounding Coordinate

52.518611

South Bounding Coordinate

50.516666666667

Temporal Coverage

Range of Dates

Begin Date

1945-07-31

End Date

2019-06-25

Taxonomic Coverage

General Taxonomic Coverage

urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:2688

Taxonomic Classification

Taxonomic Rank Name

infraorder

Taxonomic Rank Value

Cetacea

Taxonomic Coverage

General Taxonomic Coverage

urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:148736

Taxonomic Classification

Taxonomic Rank Name

infraorder

Taxonomic Rank Value

Pinnipedia

License Information

Intellectual Rights

This work is licensed under a

Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

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Additional Metadata

describes

Extra metadata added by VLIZ to add parameter, platform info, as well as GBIF fields

Metadata

parameter

Data collections

GBIF Metadata Block

Date Stamp

2021-12-02T15:35:27+01:00

Hierarchy Level

dataset

Citation

Haelters, J., Jauniaux, T. (2019) The Belgian marine mammals database

Physical

Object Name

Online dataset

Character Encoding

UTF-8

Data Format

Externally Defined Format

Format Name

HTML

Distribution

Online

URL
https://www.emodnet-biology.eu/portal/index.php?dasid=5990

Physical

Object Name

Online dataset

Character Encoding

UTF-8

Data Format

Externally Defined Format

Format Name

HTML

Distribution

Online

URL
https://www.emodnet-biology.eu/toolbox/en/download/occurrence/dataset/5990

Physical

Object Name

IPT

Character Encoding

UTF-8

Data Format

Externally Defined Format

Format Name

HTML

Distribution

Online

URL
http://ipt.naturalsciences.be/resource?r=belgian_marine_mammals

Physical

Object Name

Online dataset

Character Encoding

UTF-8

Data Format

Externally Defined Format

Format Name

HTML

Distribution

Online

URL
https://obis.org/dataset/f1987b75-508f-4562-8bbe-77cd9f6162d7

Physical

Object Name

Metadata

Character Encoding

UTF-8

Data Format

Externally Defined Format

Format Name

HTML

Distribution

Online

URL
http://www.eurobis.org//imis?dasid=5990