Description
Original provider:
Marine Turtle Research Group / Seaturtle.org
Dataset credits:
Data provider
Marine Turtle Research Group
Originating data center
Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool (STAT)
Project partner
The partnerships' work in Gabon, which includes satellite telemetry of marine turtles (leatherback and olive ridley turtles), training and capacity building in the use of fisheries vessel monitoring systems and assessing the distribution and abundance of dolphins and whales is funded by the Darwin Initiative, which is financed by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs of the UK Government under the project Darwin Marine Biodiversity Action Plan for Gabon.
Our work in Gabon is also supported by a range of additional funders, including the Natural Environment Research Council (UK; Award NER/S/A/2004/12980), the Large Pelagics Research Center, funded through NOAA (US; Award NA04NMF4550391), the European Association of Zoos and Aquaria, through the Shellshock campaign, and the European Social Fund. The Gabon Turtle Partnership receives funding from the Marine Turtle Conservation Fund (US Fish and Wildlife Service, US Department of the Interior).
Abstract:
Since 2005, a partnership of conservation biologists and Non-Governmental Organisations, lead by the University of Exeter & Seaturtle.org, The Gabon Turtle Partnership, Parcs Gabon and the Wildlife Conservation Society have been fitting satellite transmitters to leatherback turtles (Dermochelys coriacea) nesting in Gabon (Atlantic Coast, Central Africa), whose beaches host the worlds largest nesting aggregation of leatherback turtles, see link.
This year's fieldwork is taking place in Pongara National Park, northwest Gabon, where the parternship has fitted 2 leatherback turtles with satellite tracking devices. The two turtles have been named Darwinia, after the projects funders (Darwin Initiative), and Noelle after the Christmas period.
Threats faced by leatherback turtles on the nesting beaches, in the coastal zone and in the open-sea are numerous; satellite tracking enables us to build an understanding of their critical habitats, with the hope to inform plans to limit negative interactions with human activities.
This years fieldwork follows the successes of last year, where females were tracked using Argos-linked GPS telemetry, see the project page. In previous nesting seasons we have attached satellite transmitters to leatherback turtles nesting in Mayumba National Park, in the southwest of Gabon.
Supplemental information:
Visit STAT's project page for additional information.
This dataset is a summarized representation of the telemetry locations aggregated per species per 1-degree cell.
Data Records
The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 81 records.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Versions
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Witt M. 2021. Gabon 2009-10: Pongara, Leatherback Turtles. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1456) on yyyy-mm-dd originated from Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool (STAT; http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/index.shtml?project_id=466).
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is OBIS-SEAMAP. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: e905c8b5-a437-429a-ba2a-991a1b758309. OBIS-SEAMAP publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Ocean Biodiversity Information System.
Keywords
Occurrence; Observation; Occurrence
External data
The resource data is also available in other formats
| OBIS-SEAMAP Dataset Page | http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1456 UTF-8 Interactive map |
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| FGDC Metadata | http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1456/xml UTF-8 XML |
| STAT Project Page | http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/index.shtml?project_id=466 UTF-8 Original web site |
Contacts
- Metadata Provider ●
- Distributor
Geographic Coverage
Oceans
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-21.349, -22.892], North East [1.022, 9.378] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Scientific names are based on the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
| Species | Dermochelys coriacea (Leatherback Sea Turtle) |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 2009-12-08 / 2010-06-29 |
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Project Data
No Description available
| Title | Gabon 2009-10: Pongara, Leatherback Turtles (aggregated per 1-degree cell) |
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| Funding | NA |
The personnel involved in the project:
- Owner
Sampling Methods
NA
| Study Extent | NA |
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Method step description:
- NA
Collection Data
| Collection Name | zd_1456 |
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| Collection Identifier | zd_1456 |
| Parent Collection Identifier | OBIS-SEAMAP |
Additional Metadata
marine, harvested by iOBIS
| Purpose | Not available |
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| Alternative Identifiers | http://ipt.env.duke.edu/resource?r=zd_1456_1deg |