TERN Geospatial Catalogue
Survey of Coastal Dolphin Species (Australian Snubfin (Orcaella heinsohni) and Indo-Pacific Humpback (Sousa chinensis)) in Kakadu National Park
The dataset contains a record of coastal dolphin- Australian Snubfin (<em>Orcaella heinsohni</em>) and Indo-Pacific Humpback (<em>Sousa chinensis</em>)) species sighted, total number of individuals, and group/school size in Kakadu National Park rivers between March 2007 to August 2011.
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2007-03-23
- Date (Publication)
- 2014-07-28
- Date (Revision)
- 2014-07-14
- Edition
- 1
Identifier
Publisher
Author
Director of National Parks
John Gorton Building, King Edward Terrace, Parkes, ACT, 2600, Australia
Parkes
ACT
2600
Australia
- Website
- https://www.tern.org.au/
- Purpose
- Kakadu National Park (KNP), covering almost 20,000 square kilometres, is located 240 kilometres east of Darwin in Australia's tropical north. Coastal dolphins inhabit harbours, bays and estuaries and can be impacted by human activities in those areas. A boat-based survey was undertaken of two rare coastal dolphins in Kakadu National Park: the Australian Snubfin (<i>Orcaella heinsohni</i>) and Indo-Pacific Humpback (<i>Sousa chinensis</i>). The East and the South Alligator Rivers were surveyed between 2007-2011 and the West Alligator and Wildman Rivers were surveyed between 2010-2011. The objectives of the research were to record the distribution of these dolphin species, investigate habitat use, and determine important foraging areas. The project was undertaken as a collaboration between the NT Department of Natural Resources, Environment, the Arts and Sport and Kakadu National Park. Surveys were undertaken on the estuarine sections of East, South and West Alligator Rivers and the Wildman River.
- Credit
- We at TERN acknowledge the Traditional Owners and Custodians throughout Australia, New Zealand and all nations. We honour their profound connections to land, water, biodiversity and culture and pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging.
- Credit
- The project was undertaken jointly with the NT Department of Natural Resources, Environment, Arts and Sport (now the Department of Land Resource Management).
- Status
- Completed
Point of contact
Director of National Parks
John Gorton Building, King Edward Terrace, Parkes, ACT, 2600, Australia
John Gorton Building, King Edward Terrace
Parkes
ACT
2600
Australia
Point of contact
Kakadu National Park - Winderlich, Steve (NRM Manager)
Bowali Visitor Centre, Kakadu Highway, Jabiru, NT, 886, Australia
Bowali Visitor Centre, Kakadu Highway
Jabiru
NT
886
Australia
- Topic category
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- Biota
Extent
- Description
- Surveys were undertaken on the estuarine sections of East, South and West Alligator Rivers and the Wildman River. IBRA region: Arnhem Coast Darwin Coastal
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Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2007-03-23 2011-08-16
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
- GCMD Science Keywords
- ANZSRC Fields of Research
- TERN Parameter Vocabulary
- GCMD Horizontal Resolution Ranges
- GCMD Temporal Resolution Ranges
- Australian Faunal Directory
- Keywords (Discipline)
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- Behavioural Ecology
- Long-Term Species Monitoring
- Population Dynamics
- Species Decline
- Kakadu National Park
Resource constraints
- Use limitation
- The Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license allows others to copy, distribute, display, and create derivative works provided that they credit the original source and any other nominated parties. Details are provided at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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- File description
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- png
- Title
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence
- Alternate title
- CC-BY
- Edition
- 4.0
- Access constraints
- License
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- TERN services are provided on an "as-is" and "as available" basis. Users use any TERN services at their discretion and risk. They will be solely responsible for any damage or loss whatsoever that results from such use including use of any data obtained through TERN and any analysis performed using the TERN infrastructure. <br />Web links to and from external, third party websites should not be construed as implying any relationships with and/or endorsement of the external site or its content by TERN. <br /><br />Please advise any work or publications that use this data via the online form at https://www.tern.org.au/research-publications/#reporting
- Other constraints
- Please cite this dataset as {Author} ({PublicationYear}). {Title}. {Version, as appropriate}. Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network. Dataset. {Identifier}.
- Other constraints
- (C)2014 Director of National Parks (Parks Australia). Rights owned by Director of National Parks (Parks Australia).
Resource constraints
- Classification
- Unclassified
Distribution Information
Distributor
Distributor
- OnLine resource
- KNP_coastal_design
Distribution Information
Distributor
Distributor
- OnLine resource
- KNP_Map_coastal_dolphin_sighting
Resource lineage
- Statement
- Boat-based survey : A two-day, boat-based survey was undertaken each month, weather permitting. Type of boats used were 57m aluminium open or half-cab vessels. At least three people undertook each survey, one coxswain and two observers/data recorders. Sighting data was recorded both on transect and off transect (traveling to start of transects). Along transect lines the boat traveled at 15 to 20 km/hour, with an observer scanning from each side of the boat, until a dolphin or dolphin group was sighted. Once a dolphin school was spotted, the school was approached to within 10 to 15 m. Data on each group were recorded on a hand-held PDA using Cyber tracker software. A dolphin group was defined as all dolphins within a 100 m radius of any other dolphin that was involved in similar behavioural activities. Due to weather, tides and sea state conditions, exact transects traversed may have varied from month to month. All records on and off the transect were combined in the dataset. Data recorded included: species, location, number of sightings, total number of individuals, group/school sizes, and behaviour.
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Reference System Information
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG/EPSG:3395
- Reference system type
- Geodetic Geographic 2D
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- urn:uuid/664b7db6-3efe-4926-9a07-d1ddcb784d0a
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Point of contact
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
- Metadata linkage
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https://geonetwork.tern.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/664b7db6-3efe-4926-9a07-d1ddcb784d0a
Point-of-truth metadata URL
- Date info (Creation)
- 2022-09-20T00:00:00
- Date info (Revision)
- 2023-01-18T01:45:39
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO 19115-1:2014/AMD 1:2018 Geographic information - Metadata - Fundamentals
- Edition
- 1
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO/TS 19115-3:2016
- Edition
- 1.0
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO/TS 19157-2:2016
- Edition
- 1.0
- Title
- Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) Metadata Profile of ISO 19115-3:2016 and ISO 19157-2:2016
- Date (published)
- 2021
- Edition
- 1.0
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