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Cetacean vessel-based surveys in the territorial waters of Ukraine and Russia in the Black Sea (2003)
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General | |
Data holding centre | Flanders Marine Institute |
Country | Belgium |
Time period | September-October 2003 |
Ongoing | No |
Geographical area | Coastal waters of Russia and Ukraine. Surface of 12-mile-wide inshore area along the entire Black Sea coast of Ukraine and Russia. |
Observations | |
Parameters | Cetacean abundance |
Description | |
Summary | (a) Study of accumulations, migrations and habitats of the Black Sea bottlenose dolphin in coastal waters of Russia and Ukraine (Afalina-2003); (b) Assessment of the state of Black/Azov Sea marine mammal populations listed in the Red Data Book of Ukraine (MS-2003). Sightings of cetaceans: harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena relicta), common dolphins (Delphinus delphis ponticus) and bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus ponticus). On cruising yacht "Margo". |
Originators | BREMA Laboratory |
References | Birkun A., Jr (2008) The state of cetacean populations. Pp. 365-399 in: State of the Environment of the Black Sea: 2001-2006/7 (Ed. by T. Oguz). BSC Publ., Istanbul, Turkey, 448 p., ; Birkun A., Jr. (2006) Cetaceans (Cetacea). Pp. 314-332 in: Y.P. Zaitsev et al. (Eds.), The North-Western Black Sea: Biology and Ecology. Naukova Dumka, Kiev, 703 p. (In Russian)., ; Birkun A.A., Jr., Krivokhizhin S.V., Glazov D.M., Shpak O.V., Zanin A.V., Mukhametov L.M. (2004) Abundance estimates of cetaceans in coastal waters of the northern Black Sea: Results of boat surveys in August-October 2003. Pp.64-68 in: Marine Mammals of the Holarctic: Collection of Scientific Papers after the 3rd Internat. Conf. (Koktebel, Ukraine, 11-17 October 2004). Moscow, 609 p., ; Birkun A.A., Jr., Krivokhizhin S.V., Glazov D.M., Shpak O.V., Zanin A.V., Mukhametov L.M. (2004) New evidence of population decline: the harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) remains the least abundant cetacean species in the Northen Black Sea. Abstr. 18th Ann. Conf. Europ. Cetacean Soc. (Kolmården, Sweden, 28-31 March 2004). Kolmården., ; Krivokhizhin S.V. (2009) State of cetacean populations in the waters of Ukraine. PhD thesis, Institute of Biology of Southern Seas, Sevastopol, Ukraine. 228 p. (In Russian)., ; Birkun A.A., Jr., Frantzis A. (2008) 2008. Phocoena phocoena ssp. relicta. In: IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>, ; Birkun A.A., Jr. (2008) Delphinus delphis ssp. ponticus. In: IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>, ; Birkun A.A., Jr. (2008) Tursiops truncatus ssp. ponticus. In: IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. <www.iucnredlist.org>, ; Notarbartolo di Sciara G., Birkun A., Jr. (2010) Conserving whales, dolphins and porpoises in the Mediterranean and Black Seas: an ACCOBAMS status report, 2010. ACCOBAMS, Monaco. 212 p., |
Data web site | http://bio.emodnet.eu/ |
Availability | |
Organisation | Flanders Marine Institute |
Availability | Unrestricted |
Contact | Leen Vandepitte |
Address | Flanders Marine Institute |
Telephone | +32 59 34 21 30 |
Facsimile | +32 59 34 21 31 |
info@vliz.be | |
Administration | |
Collating centre | Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas, NAS of Ukraine |
Local identifier | IBSS15 |
Global identifier | 5764 |
Last revised | 2011-07-27 |