Description
Original provider: Samir Patel, Drexel University and Coonamessett Farm Foundation Dataset credits: Samir Patel, Drexel University and Coonamessett Farm Foundation Abstract: During the 2010 and 2011 nesting seasons in Rethymno, Crete, Greece, 21 satellite tags were deployed on post-reproductive loggerhead turtles, 20 females and 1 male. One tag failed, while the remaining 20 transmitted data during the migration period, with most tags continuing to transmit after the individual had reached a site of residency. The female turtles exhibited three distinct strategies, either migrating north into the Aegean Sea, southwest towards the Libyan or Tunisian coasts or remaining resident within the waters of Crete. Females migrated after completing nesting for the season starting in early July. The male turtle exhibited a different behavior migrating away from the nesting beach in mid-June and traveling into the Western Mediterranean basin. Purpose: The purpose of this study was to understand the at-sea behavior of loggerhead turtles in the Mediterranean Sea through the use of satellite telemetry.
Data Records
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How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Samir H Patel, Stephen J Morreale, Aliki Panagopoulou, Helen Bailey, Nathan J Robinson, Frank V Paladino, Dimitris Margaritoulis, James R Spotila. 2015. Changepoint analysis: a new approach for revealing animal movements and behaviors from satellite telemetry data. Ecosphere. 12:1-13.
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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: c75cf966-d8b9-4c9e-9524-ac63faf2a21a. OBIS-SEAMAP publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Ocean Biodiversity Information System.
Keywords
Occurrence,Marine Animal Survey,Marine Biology,Sea turtles,Animal tagging,Satellite transmitters,Loggerhead; Observation; Occurrence
External data
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| OBIS-SEAMAP Dataset Page | http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1816 UTF-8 Interactive map |
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| FGDC Metadata | http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1816/xml UTF-8 XML |
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Geographic Coverage
Oceans
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [31.314, 1.399], North East [38.911, 34.566] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Scientific names are based on the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
| Species | Caretta caretta (Loggerhead Sea Turtle) |
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Temporal Coverage
| Start Date / End Date | 2010-08-09 / 2012-03-31 |
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Project Data
No Description available
| Title | Loggerhead satellite tracking data from Rethymno, Crete, Greece |
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| Funding | NA |
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Sampling Methods
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| Study Extent | NA |
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Collection Data
| Collection Name | zd_1816 |
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| Collection Identifier | zd_1816 |
| Parent Collection Identifier | OBIS-SEAMAP |
Additional Metadata
marine, harvested by iOBIS
| Purpose | The purpose of this study was to understand the at-sea behavior of loggerhead turtles in the Mediterranean Sea through the use of satellite telemetry. |
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| Alternative Identifiers | http://ipt.env.duke.edu/resource?r=zd_1816 |