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Analysis of long-term effort-related land-based observations to identify whether coastal areas of harbour porpoise and bottlenose dolphin have persistent high occurrence and abundance (revised June 2015) 2015

Abstract

Since 1965, dedicated shore watches for cetaceans have been conducted at a number of sites around the UK. Over 75,000 hours of watches and around 50,000 associated sightings of bottlenose dolphin and harbour porpoise from 678 sites around the coasts of Britain have been analysed. This analysis is aimed at determining whether areas of persistent high occurrence and relative abundance of the two species can be identified.

This is a revised version, incorporating a number of minor amendments, and supersedes the previous version of JNCC Report No. 543, published in March 2015.

Resource type Publication

Topic category Environment

Reference date 2015·06·01

Citation
Evans, P.G.H., Pierce, G.J., Veneruso, G., Weir, C.R., Gibas, D., Anderwald, P. & Begoña Santos, M. (2015) Analysis of long-term effort-related land-based observations to identify whether coastal areas of harbour porpoise and bottlenose dolphin have persistent high occurrence and abundance (revised June 2015), JNCC Report No. 543, JNCC, Peterborough, ISSN 0963-8091.

Lineage
Under Article 4 of the EU Habitats Directive there is a requirement, where certain conditions are met, to protect bottlenose dolphins and harbour porpoises through the designation of Special Areas of Conservation as part of the Natura 2000 network.

Responsible organisation
Communications, JNCC publisher

Limitations on public access No limitations

Use constraints Available under the Open Government Licence 3.0

Metadata date 2019·09·30

Metadata point of contact
Communications, JNCC

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