Satellite telemetry data related to seasonal movements of harbour seals (Phoca vitulina) from the St. Lawrence Estuary and Sable Island, 1994 – 1998.
The initial objective of this dataset was to study the seasonal movement patterns of harbour seals (Phoca vitulina) in the St. Lawrence Estuary and Sable Island. This study was part of a larger program that studied the foraging behavior of the species.
Ten harbour seals were captured using gillnets from 1994 to 1998 at three sites in the St. Lawrence Estuary (Bic, n=1 individual; île Blanche, n=1; Métis-sur-Mer, n=5) and one site on Sable Island (n=3 individuals). The individuals were equipped with a satellite-linked time-depth recorder (Type3.10, Wildlife Computers) equipped with an Argos tag and placed on the back of the neck. For most individuals, satellite tracking began in September and continued until the following spring.
The dataset consists of series of geographic locations of ten harbor seals with associated dates and times and movement speeds calculated from successive locations.
The location data were only filtered based on the validity class provided by Argos. Class Z locations were excluded.
Simple
- Date ( RI_367 )
- 2024
- Date ( RI_366 )
- 1994
- Status
- completed; complété RI_593
- Maintenance and update frequency
- notPlanned; nonPlanifié RI_542
- Keywords ( RI_528 )
-
- Harbour seal
- Phoca vitulina
- Movement
- Satellite telemetry
- Sable Island
- St. Lawrence Estuary
- Thésaurus des sujets de base du gouvernement du Canada Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus ( RI_528 )
-
- Animal populations
- Animal migrations
- Aquatic animals
- Aquatic ecosystems
- Aquatic wildlife
- Behaviour
- Biology
- Marine biology
- Ecosystems
- Animal diseases
- Use limitation
- Open Government Licence - Canada (http://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada)
- Access constraints
- license; licence RI_606
- Use constraints
- license; licence RI_606
- Classification
- unclassified; nonClassifié RI_484
- Spatial representation type
- grid; grille RI_636
- Metadata language
- fre
- Metadata language
- eng
- Character set
- utf8; utf8 RI_458
- Topic category
-
- Biota
- Oceans
- Begin date
- 1994-09
- End date
- 1998-05
- Description
- Two separate sectors. First sector: St. Lawrence Estuary downstream of Île aux Coudres, Gaspé Peninsula contour, Baie des Chaleurs. Second sector: approximately 40 km radius around Sable Island.
- Reference system identifier
- https://epsg.io / EPSG:4326
- Distribution format
-
-
CSV
(
1
)
-
CSV
(
1
)
- OnLine resource
-
Data dictionary seals telemetry
(
HTTPS
)
Supporting Document;CSV;eng,fra
- OnLine resource
-
Satellite tracking harbour seals data
(
HTTPS
)
Dataset;CSV;eng,fra
- OnLine resource
-
Web service of satellite tracking of harbour seals
(
ESRI REST: Map Service
)
Web Service;ESRI REST;eng
- OnLine resource
-
Web service of satellite tracking of harbour seals
(
ESRI REST: Map Service
)
Web Service;ESRI REST;fra
- File identifier
- b8e9bec4-7568-4666-8175-1e069bc1ffca XML
- Metadata language
- fra; CAN
- Character set
- utf8; utf8 RI_458
- Hierarchy level
- dataset; jeuDonnées RI_622
- Date stamp
- 2024-12-10T14:34:53.196Z
- Metadata standard name
- North American Profile of ISO 19115:2003 - Geographic information - Metadata
- Metadata standard version
- CAN/CGSB-171.100-2009