Description
Original provider:
Yaniv Levy
Dataset credits:
Data provider
Marine Turtle Research Group
Originating data center
Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool (STAT)
Abstract:
Israel National Nature and Parks Authority (INNPA) conducts a management plan for sea turtles since the 1980s. During more than 20 years, rangers are surveying the Mediterranean coasts, tracking, protecting and relocating loggerhead and green turtles' nests into hatcheries in coastal nature reserves. The hatcheries are protected and during the hatching season, the hatchlings are released by the help of rangers and volunteers.
More than 50,000 hatchlings were released so far.
In 1999 INNPA established a sea turtle rescue center and every year dozens of wounded turtles are rehabilitated and more than 60% are released back to the wild. The turtles suffer from various injuries that result from fishing activity, pollution, plastic debris etc'. One part of the rescue center’s work is raising a breeding stock of green sea turtles. Their offspring will be released to the sea from the hatcheries.
An additional activity of the INNPA is sampling stranded sea turtle carcasses in order to collect different data, such as genetic information, population size and distribution.
All of the above information is included in our website.
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 115 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:
Center I. 2021. Israel Sea Turtle Tracking Project 2008: Loggerhead & Green Turtles. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1964) on yyyy-mm-dd originated from Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool (STAT; http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/index.shtml?project_id=303).
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: 412a0be2-8f44-4975-a147-b0d7e8778971. 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/1964 UTF-8 Interactive map |
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| FGDC Metadata | http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1964/xml UTF-8 XML |
| STAT Project Page | http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/index.shtml?project_id=303 UTF-8 Original web site |
Contacts
- Owner ●
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Metadata Provider ●
- Distributor
Geographic Coverage
Oceans
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [21.817, -50.489], North East [47.066, 87.911] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Scientific names are based on the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
| Species | Chelonia mydas (Green Sea Turtle), Caretta caretta (Loggerhead Sea Turtle) |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 2008-07-20 / 2012-07-02 |
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Project Data
No Description available
| Title | Israel Sea Turtle Tracking Project 2008: Loggerhead & Green 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_1964 |
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| Collection Identifier | zd_1964 |
| 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_1964_1deg |