Original provider: Claudio Fossati, University of Pavia Dataset credits: Claudio Fossati and Giulia Romè, CIBRA Center for Bioacoustics, University of Pavia Abstract: CIBRA Center for Bioacoustics, Univ. of Pavia, organizes research cruises in the Med sea since 1994. Visual and acoustic contacts (1994 - 2001) are available on OBIS-SEAMAP, while acoustic recordings are stored in our Sound library and available upon request.

Citation: Fossati, C., G. Romè and G. Pavan. 2016. Acoustic detections of sperm whales from research cruises in the Med sea, 1994-2001. Version 1.0.0. Dataset published in OBIS-SEAMAP. https://doi.org/10.82144/11f81611.

Published: October 09, 2025 at 15:07

URL: http://ipt.env.duke.edu/resource?r=zd_1116

Claudio Fossati
CIBRA Center for Bioacoustics, University of Pavia

Gianni Pavan
CIBRA Center for Bioacoustics, University of Pavia

Giulia Romè
CIBRA Center for Bioacoustics, University of Pavia

OBIS-SEAMAP
Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Duke University

ACCOBAMS and WDCS
The Agreement on the Conservation of Cetaceans of the Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea and contiguous Atlantic Area (ACCOBAMS) and Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society (WDCS)

occurrence records

taxa

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters		27	100.0%
maximumDepthInMeters	27		100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters	27		100.0%

Quality flags

The OBIS data quality flags are documented at https://github.com/iobis/obis-qc.

Flag	Dropped	Records
NO_DEPTH		27	100.0%

Acoustic detections of sperm whales from research cruises in the Med sea, 1994-2001

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data