North Cyprus 2015 - Green Turtles (aggregated per 1-degree cell)

Philip Bradshaw1, OBIS-SEAMAP2, Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool3

1 Marine Turtle Research Group, ; 2 Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Duke University, A328 LSRC building, 27708, Durham, United States; 3 seaturtle.org, 

Corresponding author(s): Philip Bradshaw (pjb228@exeter.ac.uk), OBIS-SEAMAP (seamap-contact@duke.edu)

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Citation: Combination of authors, year of data paper publication (in parentheses), Title, Journal Name, Volume, Issue number (in parentheses), and doi of the data paper.

Resource Citation

Bradshaw P. 2021. North Cyprus 2015 - Green Turtles. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1294) on yyyy-mm-dd originated from Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool (STAT; http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/index.shtml?project_id=1107). https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1294

Abstract

Original provider:
Marine Turtle Research Group

Dataset credits:
Data provider
Marine Turtle Research Group
Originating data center
<a href='http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/' target='_blank'>Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool (STAT)</a>
Project partner
Society for Protection of Turtles (SPOT) was founded in the late 1980s by British expatriates Ian and Celia Bell who came together with local conservationist Kutlay Keço. In 1988 a preliminary field study was carried out by Brian Groombridge and Claire Whitmore and SPOT later made further surveys of the North Cyprus coast and found numbers of nesting green and loggerhead turtles sufficient to merit further investigation. In the early 1990s SPOT contacted Glasgow University and in 1992 the first pioneering team of students were sent to make a thorough survey. On the basis of this expedition, Kutlay agreed to provide accommodation on his land at Alagadi, and this became the Alagadi Goat Shed and Sleeping House, which twenty years on are still used by the Marine Turtle Conservation Project (MTCP) as the hub of research and conservation of turtles in North Cyprus. MTCP is a collaboration between the University of Exeter's Marine Turtle Research Group, SPOT and the North Cyprus Department for Environmental Protection.

Abstract:
The MTCP have placed 22 satellite trackers on green turtles since 1998 which have revealed several major foraging areas within the Mediterranean.  However, recent research using stable isotope analysis suggest that an important foraging area may have been missed due to chance.  Therefore, MTCP have taken the opportunity to attach satellite trackers to 5 turtles which the stable isotopes suggest forage in the area of interest.

Supplemental information:
<a href='http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/index.shtml?project_id=1107' target='_new'>Visit STAT's project page</a> for additional information.

This dataset is a summarized representation of the telemetry locations aggregated per species per 1-degree cell.

Keywords: Occurrence, Observation, Occurrence

General description

Purpose: Not available
Additional information: marine, harvested by iOBIS

Project details

Project title: North Cyprus 2015 - Green Turtles (aggregated per 1-degree cell)
Personnel: Philip Bradshaw
Funding: NA

Data published through GBIF: http://ipt.env.duke.edu/resource?r=zd_1294_1deg

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: Scientific names are based on the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
Taxonomic ranks
Species: Chelonia mydas
Common names: Green Sea Turtle

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Oceans
Coordinates: 30°59'34.8''N and 35°46'55.2''N Latitude; 32°47'16.8''E and 36°26'13.2''E Longitude 

Temporal coverage: June 30, 2015 - November 23, 2015

Natural collections description

Parent collection identifier: OBIS-SEAMAP
Collection name: zd_1294
Collection identifier: zd_1294

Methods

Method step description: NA
Study extent description: NA
Sampling description: NA

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive North Cyprus 2015 - Green Turtles (aggregated per 1-degree cell)
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: http://ipt.env.duke.edu/archive.do?r=zd_1294_1deg
Publication date of data: 2021-04-24
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License

External datasets

Dataset description
Object name: OBIS-SEAMAP Dataset Page
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Interactive map
Distribution: http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1294

Dataset description
Object name: FGDC Metadata
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: XML
Distribution: http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1294/xml

Dataset description
Object name: STAT Project Page
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Original web site
Distribution: http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/index.shtml?project_id=1107

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2014-06-17
Hierarchy level: Dataset