Occurrence

Maldivian Sea Turtle Conservation Program- LG (aggregated per 1-degree cell)

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Description

Original provider: SEAMARC / Four Seasons Resorts Maldives Dataset credits: Data provider LGSTRC Originating data center Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool (STAT) Project partner Four Seasons Resort Maldives at Landaa Giraavaru, Baa Atoll, Maldives Project sponsor or sponsor description Four Seasons Resort at Landaa Giraavaru, Baa Atoll, Maldives Abstract: The Maldivian Sea Turtle Conservation Program (MSTCP) was started in 2011 by our small team of Seamarc marine biologists at the Four Seasons resorts, Maldives. Our preliminary objective is to produce an estimated inventory of sea turtles using a photo identification monitoring method. This will allow us to better understand turtle population and migration patterns. A major threat these creatures are facing in the country is turtle and egg poaching. For this reason, one aspect of the MSTCP consists of protecting turtle nesting sites and rearing a few individuals per clutch in order to increase their survival rate.

Off shore, Olive Ridley Sea Turtles are particularly exposed to Ghost Nets. Another aspect of the MSTCP is to rescue and rehabilitate injured Olive Ridley Sea Turtles and track them after release to study both the success of rehabilitation and the global distribution of the species in the Indian Ocean. 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

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Fisher J. 2021. Maldivian Sea Turtle Conservation Program- LG. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/850) on yyyy-mm-dd originated from Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool (STAT; http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/index.shtml?project_id=750).

Rights

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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: a0476053-08b8-4054-927c-3594a1960287.  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/850 UTF-8 Interactive map
FGDC Metadata http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/850/xml UTF-8 XML
STAT Project Page http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/index.shtml?project_id=750 UTF-8 Original web site

Contacts

Jamie Fisher
  • Owner ●
  • Originator ●
  • Point Of Contact
Primary contact
LGSTRC
OBIS-SEAMAP
  • Metadata Provider ●
  • Distributor
Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Duke University
A328 LSRC building
27708 Durham
NC
US
http://seamap.env.duke.edu
Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool
  • Originator
seaturtle.org
http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/

Geographic Coverage

Oceans

Bounding Coordinates South West [-1.886, -122.138], North East [47.679, 90.098]

Taxonomic Coverage

Scientific names are based on the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).

Species Chelonia mydas (Green Sea Turtle), Lepidochelys olivacea (Olive Ridley)

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 2012-05-10 / 2016-10-19

Project Data

No Description available

Title Maldivian Sea Turtle Conservation Program- LG (aggregated per 1-degree cell)
Funding NA

The personnel involved in the project:

Jamie Fisher
  • Owner

Sampling Methods

NA

Study Extent NA

Method step description:

  1. NA

Collection Data

Collection Name zd_850
Collection Identifier zd_850
Parent Collection Identifier OBIS-SEAMAP

Additional Metadata

marine, harvested by iOBIS

Purpose Not available
Alternative Identifiers http://ipt.env.duke.edu/resource?r=zd_850_1deg