Monitoring Beached Marine Mammals on French Coasts
Monitoring the specific composition and spatial and temporal distribution of beachings over the long term in order to identify tendencies and events affecting populations of marine mammals in French waters. This is the longest series of data in France concerning these species.
Simple
- Title
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Monitoring Beached Marine Mammals on French Coasts
- Date (Creation)
- 1971-01-01T00:00:00
- Citation identifier
- FR-DCSMM-PDS-SUIVI_MAMMIFERES
- Presentation form
- Digital profile
- Abstract
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Monitoring the specific composition and spatial and temporal distribution of beachings over the long term in order to identify tendencies and events affecting populations of marine mammals in French waters. This is the longest series of data in France concerning these species.
- Purpose
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to acquire biological data (organ and tissue samples), study causes of mortality, biodemographic and ecological parameters.
- Credit
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Data producers : UMS 3462 (CRMM) and RNE
- Status
- On going
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role UMS 3462
Van Canneyt Olivier
Local service desk UMS 3462
Dabin Willy
Local service desk
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Annually
- Maintenance note
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Network duration: perennial Network
- Theme
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Beached
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Marine mammals
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Environmental monitoring facilities
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Sous-regions marines
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National
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DCSMM : Type d'espace concerné
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Pas d'espace particulier concerné
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DCSMM : Descripteurs
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D1: Biodiversité - Mammifères
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DCSMM : Méthodes de recueil des données
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Observation directe
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Thèmes Sextant
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/Biological Environment/Species/Rare, Protected Species, and Species in Danger of Extinction
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- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other legal constraints
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Restricted access
- Use limitation
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elementary exchange data is public (species, position, date), and open access. It is currently published in annual reports and can be consulted from the CRMM website. Eventually, they will be accessible on the UMS 3462 website which is currently under construction.
Use of raw data (observation parameters) will be available, subject to request, from UMS on the condition that a partnership/collaboration agreement is put in place with the UMS.
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Denominator
- 50000
- Language
- Français
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Oceans
- Supplemental Information
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Project leader :
Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy 1992
Prime contractor :
UMS 3462 (CRMM) 1992
Backer :
Ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy 1992
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG / WGS 84 (EPSG:4326) / 7.9
- Topology level
- Geometry only
- Geometric object type
- Complex
- Geometric object count
- 0
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Conformance result
- Title
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Inspire specifications
- Date (Creation)
- 2012-01-16
- Explanation
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Non assessed
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- Statement
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1971 : Implementation and coordination of a network of producers is taken on by the La Rochelle Natural History Museum and the La Rochelle Oceanographic Museum from 1971 to 1992.
1992 : Implementation and coordination of the National Beaching Network (RNE) is taken on by the Marine Mammal Research Centre (non- profit organisation), as part of an agreement with the Ministry for the Environment.
2004 : the Marine Mammal Research Centre (CRMM). changes status and becomes an observatory for the University of La Rochelle (and the current UMS 3462). This mission is part of an agreement with the Ministry for the Environment.
Number of observation or measurement points : still 17900 beachings.
Data is collected by observers from the National Beachings Network (RNE) who are qualified to record this type of information and who have completed a specific training course run by UMS 3462. Over 300 RNE observers (NGOs, private organisations, state-run organisations, individuals) have participated in collecting this data using the scientific responsibility of UMS 3462 (CRMM).
Beaching records and sampling protocols are implemented by UMS 3462 and the RNE charter adherence committee, (Guide to follow).
Data is stored in a national beaching database.
Stored in ACCESS format. Size : 37 Mo (without the photographs and associated reports)
- Description
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All RNE correspondents receive training on how to apply standard protocol. Standard data collection files and a sampling protocol are available. A user guide is currently being drawn up. A charter sets out the use of data and sampled from the RNE.
Depending on how recently the animal was beached and its state of decay, there are many possible levels of sample collection. They provide information about the biodemography and the other samples instead provide information about the ecological aspects.
- Description
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Data type : Mammalia
Precision on the data type :
Monitoring beachings of cetaceans and pinnipeds on the whole French coast
Measured or observed parameters :
Date of the beaching and/or study
Mortality location
State of decay
Species
Animal biometry
Biodemographic and ecological readings from organs sampled
- Age (20% of individuals) : teeth
- Reproductive status (5% of individuals) : gonads
- Physical condition (5% of individuals) : Blubber thickness
- Feeding habits (5% of individuals) : remains of stomach contents
- Isotopic signature (5% of individuals) : blubber
- Fatty acids (5% of individuals) : blubber
- Metal content (5% des individus) : muscles, kidneys, liver
- Content of remaining organic pollutants (5% of individuals) : blubber, liver
- Genetic analyses (5% of individuals) : skin, kidneys
- Other samples taken in order to detect pathogens (1 % of individuals) : various lesions on any organ
Biodemographic and ecological parameters
Update frequency :
continuous
Observation frequency :
continuous
- Description
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Taxonomic repository : Rice. D.W. 1998. Marine Mammals of the World systematics and distribution.
Geographical reference : each beached animal is referenced to a town and all beachings linked to that town have the same coordinate. The precise position of the beached animal on the coast is not always recorded.
Metadata
- File identifier
- dd16d6f2-6dd3-4027-94dd-cdd3df79bd27
- Metadata language
- Français
- Other language
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Language Character encoding English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Series
- Date stamp
- 2020-06-04T00:47:40
- Metadata standard name
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ISO 19115:2003/19139 - SEXTANT
- Metadata standard version
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1.0
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Sextant
Local service desk