Description
Original provider: Israel National Nature and Parks Authority - Sea Turtle Rescue Center Dataset credits: Data provider: Isreal's Sea Turtle Monitoring Program; Originating data center: Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool (STAT); Project sponsor or sponsor description: yaniv@npa.org.il Abstract: The Israeli Nature and Parks Authority (NPA)operates this turtle monitoring program, sponsored by the NPA together with Israel Electric Company, to track rehabilitated sea turtles â€" mainly Loggerheads (Carreta carreta) and Green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas). <br>Tracked turtles were released to sea after spending several months at the Israel Sea Turtle Rescue Center, to which they arrive suffering from various injuries. The purpose of this current monitoring program is to learn about these turtles' habits and behavior â€" post rehabilitation, to get a better understanding on their rehabilitation needs.<br>Previous monitoring programs focused on nesting females as well as Green turtles released after being kept in captivity as part of a breeding stock project, aimed to help increase the number of hatchlings in the wild. Tracking healthy turtles at sea allows the identification of feeding zones and migration paths, information of paramount importance for the protection of these endangered species.<br> 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 141 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. 2025. Israel's sea turtle monitoring program. 1.0.0. Dataset published in OBIS-SEAMAP and originated from Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool (STAT; http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/index.shtml?project_id=1003). https://doi.org/10.82144/c44b70b1.
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: d0f30a76-5fb3-4bd8-8cb5-f6d93bfbef48. OBIS-SEAMAP publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Ocean Biodiversity Information System.
Keywords
Marine Biology; Telemetry; Tagged animal; Occurrence; Observation
External data
The resource data is also available in other formats
| OBIS-SEAMAP Dataset Page | https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1185 UTF-8 Interactive map |
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| FGDC Metadata | https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1185/fgdc UTF-8 XML |
| EML Metadata | https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1185/eml UTF-8 XML |
| STAT Project Page | http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/index.shtml?project_id=1003 UTF-8 Original web site |
Contacts
- Owner ●
- Originator ●
- Point Of Contact
- Primary contact
- Metadata Provider ●
- Distributor
- A328 LSRC building
Geographic Coverage
Oceans
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [30.845, 5.393], North East [44.075, 35.949] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Scientific names are based on the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
| Species | Caretta caretta (Loggerhead sea turtle), Chelonia mydas (Green sea turtle) |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 2014-06-18 / 2020-02-22 |
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Project Data
No Description available
| Title | Israel's sea turtle monitoring program |
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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_1185_1deg |
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| Collection Identifier | zd_1185_1deg |
| Parent Collection Identifier | OBIS-SEAMAP |
Bibliographic Citations
- Coyne, M. S., and B. J. Godley. 2005. Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool (STAT): an integrated system for archiving, analyzing and mapping animal tracking data. Marine Ecology Progress Series: Vol. 301: 1-7. https://www.int-res.com/abstracts/meps/v301/meps301001
Additional Metadata
marine, harvested by iOBIS. Visit STAT's project page for additional information at http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/index.shtml?project_id=1003
| Purpose | |
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| Alternative Identifiers | https://doi.org/10.82144/c44b70b1 |
| https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1185 | |
| https://www.gbif.org/dataset/d0f30a76-5fb3-4bd8-8cb5-f6d93bfbef48 | |
| https://obis.org/dataset/586537f2-2466-4347-8703-afa49f487968 | |
| d0f30a76-5fb3-4bd8-8cb5-f6d93bfbef48 | |
| https://ipt.env.duke.edu/resource?r=zd_1185_1deg |