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            <para>This is the OBIS extraction of the Atlantic Cooperative Telemetry  and Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC)  SERC Cownose Ray Study, consisting of the release tagging metadata, i.e. the location and date when the tagged animal was released, and summarized detection events of tagged individuals.
    If readers are interested in the source dataset they may also inquire with the project PIs as listed here or on the OTN web site (https://members.oceantrack.org/project?ccode=ACT.CBCNR).
  </para><para>Abstract:The Cownose Ray is an ecologically important batoid ray in coastal areas of the western North Atlantic. This study seeks to identify patterns in habitat use throughout the annual migration along the US Atlantic Coast.</para>
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Use Constraints:
Acknowledge the use of specific records from contributing databases in the form appearing in the &apos;Citation&apos; field thereof (if any); and acknowledge the use of the OBIS facility.

For information purposes, email to info@obis.org  the full citation of any publication made (printed or electronic) that cites OBIS or any constituent part.

Recognize the limitations of data in OBIS. See https://manual.obis.org/policy.html#disclaimer for more details</para>
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                <generalTaxonomicCoverage>Species included below are tagged by this project and have left any embargo. Other individuals or species may later be appended to this dataset.</generalTaxonomicCoverage>
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                    <taxonRankValue>Rhinoptera bonasus</taxonRankValue>
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                <postalCode>B3H 4J1</postalCode>
                <country>CA</country>
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                <description>
                    <para>This resource is curated by the Atlantic Cooperative Telemetry Data Centre, this archive was produced using software created by the Ocean Tracking Network to serve as a summarized representation of animal presence determined by electronic tagging efforts. Darwin Core (DwC) records were extracted from the ACT database and OTN-affiliated data systems, filtered and summarized according to international agreed-upon standards.</para>
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                        <para>Program started 2014-05-01 and ran until None</para>
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                    <para>All species names are verified using the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS). If species names on new data cannot be verified against (a) known valid names in ACT or OTN, and/or (b) WoRMS the Data Provider will be notified so they can check they are correct. Names that cannot be placed after checking with WoRMS are, where possible, placed on the basis of other authoritative sources, such as FishBase or ITIS; and once completely verified a request will be sent to WoRMS for addition of the verified species name.
http://members.oceantrack.org/data/discovery/byspecies</para>
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                <para>The Cownose Ray is an ecologically important batoid ray in coastal areas of the western North Atlantic. This study seeks to identify patterns in habitat use throughout the annual migration along the US Atlantic Coast.</para>
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                <para>No funding information for this project was provided to ACT for publication.
    
    The ACT Network is a community of researchers studying animal movement based at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Edgewater, MD. Support for the ACT Network is primarily provided by the US Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) and its regional associations, MARACOOS and NERACOOS, and in part by The Nature Conservancy. In addition, the ACT Network is grateful to the US Animal Telemetry Network, Ocean Tracking Network, and the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center for their continued support.</para>
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