Data on cetacean strandings (1999 - 2014) on the Ukrainian coast of the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov and adjoining areas

Karina Vishnyakova

doi:10.15468/idrmoa

Data on cetacean strandings (1999 - 2014) on the Ukrainian coast of the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov and adjoining areas

Citation

Vishnyakova K, Gol’din P (2017). Data on cetacean strandings (1999 - 2014) on the Ukrainian coast of the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov and adjoining areas. Version 1.5. Ukrainian Scientific Centre of Ecology of the Sea (UkrSCES). Occurrence Dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/idrmoa accessed via GBIF.org on 2018-04-25.

Description

This dataset contains data on cetacean strandings collected from 1999 to 2014 on the coastal areas of the Black sea and the Sea of Azov. Observations were conducted by Pavel Gol’din and Karina Vishnyakova, with the help provided by D. Markov, E. Gladilina, E. Gol’din, V. Sokhin, E. Kushnir, V. Serbin, Yu. Lyashenko, L. Godlevska, A. Nadolny, M. Kovalyova, O. Savenko, N. Kukharev and other colleagues and volunteers who took part in the field excursions and provided information on strandings.

Sampling Description

Study Extent

The project was focused on the southern coast of the Sea of Azov and north-eastern coast of the Black sea, with adding some data from adjoining areas.

Sampling

The data for this study were obtained in the course of routine regular monitoring surveys of the 35-km-long coastal area on the southern side of the Sea of Azov and the Kerch Strait west to the Fonar Cape during 15 years, in 1999–2014 (except 2004), a 15-km-long coastal area between Novofedorovka and Nikolaevka on the northern Black Sea coast in Crimea, and irregular findings on other coastal areas. All skeletal remains and incomplete carcasses, as well as carcasses at various stages of decomposition, were recorded. Age, sex and status of sexual maturity were identified.

Method steps

All the findings were recorded following a standard protocol which included geographical coordinates, all the biological characteristics, and, since 2005, photographs of a carcass identifying its species and environmental conditions.

Additional info

marine, harvested by iOBIS

Taxonomic Coverages

Three cetacean species inhabiting the region have been recorded.

Phocoena phocoena relicta
common name: Harbour porpoise rank: subspecies
Tursiops truncatus ponticus
common name: Bottlenose dolphin rank: subspecies
Delphinus delphis ponticus
common name: Common dolphin rank: subspecies

Geographic Coverages

Observation were conducted on the coastal areas of the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov in Ukraine and adjoining areas of Russia (Taman Peninsula).

Bibliographic Citations

Vishnyakova, K., Gol’din, P. 2015. Seasonality of strandings and bycatch of harbour porpoises in the Sea of Azov: the effects of fisheries, weather conditions and life history. ICES Journal of Marine Science 72(3): 981–991. -
Vishnyakova, K., Gol’din, P. 2015. Seasonality of strandings and bycatch of harbour porpoises in the Sea of Azov: the effects of fisheries, weather conditions and life history. ICES Journal of Marine Science 72(3): 981–991. Vishnyakova, K., Gol’din, P. 2015. Cetacean stranding rate correlates with fish stock dynamics: Research of harbour porpoises in the Sea of Azov. Marine Biology 162:359–366. -
Gol’din, P. E., Vishnyakova, K. A., Gladilina, E. V. 2013. Taphonomy of stranded small cetaceans: general aspects and impact of the coast Scientific Notes of Taurida V.I. Vernadsky National University. Series Biology, chemistry. 26 (65), 3. – P. 45–53 -
Gol’din, P. E. 2008. Findings of cetaceans at the coast of Crimea in 1999-2003. In: Findings of Animals Listed in The Red Data Book of Ukraine. – Kiev. – P. 54–61. (In Ukrainian). -

Contacts

Karina Vishnyakova
originator
position: Scientific Researcher
Ukrainian Scientific Centre of Ecology of the Sea
89, Frantsuzskyi Blv.
Odesa
65009
UA
Telephone: +38 0482 63-73-34
email: karinavishnyakova@gmail.com

Karina Vishnyakova
metadata author
position: Scientific Researcher
Ukrainian Scientific Center of Ecology of the Sea
89 Frantsuzsky Blvd.
Odesa
65009
UA
Telephone: +38 0482 636622
email: karinavishnyakova@gmail.com

Pavel Gol'din
metadata author
position: Senior Researcher
I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology
15 B. Khmelnytskogo Street
Kyiv
01030
UA
Telephone: +38 044 2351070
email: pavelgoldin412@gmail.com
homepage: http://www.izan.kiev.ua/eng/deps/depmorph/goldin.htm
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6118-1384

Oleksandr Neprokin
distributor
position: Head of Department
Ukrainian Scientific Centre of Ecology of the Sea
89, Frantsuzskyi Blv.
Odesa
65009
UA
Telephone: +38 0482 637334
email: o.neprokin@gmail.com
homepage: https://www.oceanexpert.net/expert/19193

Pavel Gol'din
administrative point of contact
position: Senior Researcher
I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology
15 B. Khmelnytskogo Street
Kyiv
01030
UA
Telephone: +38 044 2351070
email: pavelgoldin412@gmail.com
homepage: http://www.izan.kiev.ua/eng/deps/depmorph/goldin.htm
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6118-1384