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2016 Aerial survey data of southern right whales (Eubalaena australis) off southern Australia
These aerial survey data of southern right whales (Eubalaena australis) off southern Australia were collected in August 2016. Such annual flights in winter/spring between Cape Leeuwin (Western Australia) and Ceduna (South Australia) have now been conducted over a 23-year period 1993-2016. These surveys have provided evidence of a population trend of around 6% per year, and a current (at 2014) population size of approximately 2300 of what has been regarded as the 'western' Australian right whale subpopulation. With estimated population size in the low thousands, it is presumed to be still well below carrying capacity. No trend information is available for the 'eastern' subpopulation of animals occurring around the remainder of the southern Australian Coast, to at least as far as Sydney, New South Wales and the populations size is relatively small, probably in the low hundreds. A lower than expected 'western' count in 2015 gives weak evidence that the growth rate may be starting to show signs of slowing, though an exponential increase remains the best description of the data. If the low 2015 count is anomalous, future counts may be expected to show an exponential increase, but if it is not, modelling growth as other than simple exponential may be useful to explore in future.
A data update was provided in August, 2020 to correct some incorrectly given longitude values.
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Identification info
- Alternate title
- 2016 Aerial survey data of southern right whales (Eubalaena australis) off southern Australia
- Date (Publication)
- 2020-08-27
- Edition
- 3
- Citation identifier
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Dataset DOI
- Title
- Information and documentation - Digital object identifier system
- Date (Publication)
- 2012-04-23
- Citation identifier
- ISO 26324:2012
- Citation identifier
- doi:10.4225/15/598d37ad988ba
Originator
Publisher
Principal investigator
Collaborator
- Name
- CAASM Metadata
- Purpose
- Assessing the status and trend of Australia's southern right whale populations.
- Status
- Completed
Custodian
- Topic category
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- Biota
- Oceans
Extent
))
Extent
- Description
- Temporal Coverage
Temporal extent
- TimePeriod
- 2016-08-24 2016-08-29
- Title
- Population trend in right whales off southern Australia 1993-2015.
- Date (Publication)
- 2016
- Citation identifier
- SC/66b/BRG/09
Author
- Name
- IWC Scientific Committee
- Other citation details
- Paper submitted for consideration by the IWC Scientific Committee.
- NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
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- EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > MAMMALS > CETACEANS > BALEEN WHALES
- Keywords
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- Southern Right Whales
- Survey
- NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
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- CAMERAS
- NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
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- AIRCRAFT
- NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
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- AMD/AU
- AMD
- CEOS
- NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
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- GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR
- OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN
- CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA
- CONTINENT > AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND > AUSTRALIA
Resource constraints
- Use limitation
- This metadata record is publicly available.
Resource constraints
- Access constraints
- licence
- Other constraints
- These data are publicly available for download from the provided URL.
Resource constraints
- File type
- Portable Network Graphic
- Title
- Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- Website
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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode
Legal code for Creative Commons by Attribution 4.0 International license
- Use constraints
- licence
- Other constraints
- Please acknowledge John Bannister Western Australian Museum This data set conforms to the CCBY Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Please follow instructions listed in the citation reference provided at http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=NESP_2016_SRW when using these data.
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Distribution Information
Distributor
Distributor
Distributor
- Fees
- Free
- Planned available datetime
- 2020-08-27T00:00:00
- Units of distribution
- GB
- Transfer size
- 28.1
- Distribution format
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- Images, Excel
- OnLine resource
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Download the dataset.
- OnLine resource
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VIEW RELATED INFORMATION
Citation reference for this metadata record and dataset.
Resource lineage
- Statement
- Photo quality will be variable and requires assessment prior to assimilation into photo-identification catalogue http://data.marinemammals.gov.au/arwpic 2018-10-16 The original files from project 'NESP_2016_SRW' was reformatted to fit OBIS/GBFI/IPT Biodiversity.AQ standards, and a new datasheet "NESTWhaleAerialSurvey2016.csv" was created. The new dataset contains datasetID, occurrenceID, recordNumber, eventDate, year, month, verbatimLatitude, verbatimLongitude, decimalLatitude, decimalLongitude, locationID, stateProvince, country, countryCode, institutionCode, lifeStage, organismQuantity, organismQuantityType, sex, basisOfRecord, occurrenceStatus, and type. The lowest taxonomical rank of the species identified that could be determined is provided, after matched in WoRMS (World Register of Marine Species).
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- Maintenance note
- 2017-08-11 - record created by Mike Double. 2018-10-16 - record updated by Dave Connell after an updated dataset was provided by Daniela Farias for GBIF/OBIS compliance. 2020-08-27 - record updated by Dave Connell after a corrected dataset was uploaded.
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- string/NESP_2016_SRW
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Author
Sponsor
Owner
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
Alternative metadata reference
- Title
- gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
- Citation identifier
- 881d2cde-26af-44e9-b695-6c3b458fafc2
Alternative metadata reference
- Title
- gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
- Date (Last Revision)
- 2020-08-27T11:28:58
Identifier
- Description
- metadata.extraction_date
Alternative metadata reference
- Title
- gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
- Citation identifier
- 8.6
- Metadata linkage
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http://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/NESP_2016_SRW
Point of truth for the metadata record
- Date info (Creation)
- 2017-08-10T00:00:00
- Date info (Last Update)
- 2020-08-27
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO 19115-3
- Edition
- 2014
- Other citation details
- Version 1
- Title
- DIF to ISO 19115-1 Profile
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