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TARTACare Calabria: monitoring and conservation of the loggerhead turtle nesting activity along the Ionian coast of Calabria (Southern Italy) (aggregated per 1-degree cell)
Citation
Luschi P. 2021. TARTACare Calabria: monitoring and conservation of the loggerhead turtle nesting activity along the Ionian coast of Calabria (Southern Italy). Data originated from Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool (STAT; http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/index.shtml?project_id=427). https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/2829
Contact: Luschi, Paolo ;

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Availability: Creative Commons License This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

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

Description

Post-nesting satellite tracking of two loggerhead turtles in the southern Ionian coast of Calabria, Italy.

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The Southern Ionian coast of Calabria is currently recognized as the main nesting ground for loggerhead turtles in Italy, accounting for 70% of the total nesting events which were documented nationwide over the last six years (2003-2008). This finding arose from a research project (TARTACare Calabria) initiated by the Dept. of Ecology of Calabria University (Rende, Italy) in summer 2000. This project mainly aims at nest monitoring and protecting, but also has additional objectives such as estimating of nesting population, genetic analysis, beach characterization, definition of type and entity of threats to nesting derived from human impact (including fishing impact). Satellite tracking of nesting females has also been attempted to track the post-nesting migrations and to ultimately identify the so far unknown foraging areas of the turtles nesting on the Ionian coast. Zeffiria and Esperia are the first two turtles nesting in Italy that are being tracked by satellite during their post-nesting migrations.

 

Data provider
Islameta Group, Dept. of Biology - University of Pisa

Originating data center
Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool (STAT)

Project partner
The overall TARTAcare project of the Dept. of Ecology, Calabria University is a collaboration with: Islameta Group, University of Pisa (satellite tracking), University of Rome Tor Vergata (genetic analysis), University of Florence (beach characterization), Stazione Zoologica A. Dohrn, Naples (tagging), and WWF Italia and FAI (Fondo Ambiente Italiano) for nest protection and public awareness campaigns

Project sponsor or sponsor description
The project is authorized by the Ministry of Environment (Direzione Protezione della Natura). The main financial supports to the project were provided through the years by the Italian Ministry of Environment and of University and Research, and the Calabrian regional government (Assessorato alle Politiche dell'Ambiente)

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.


Scope
Themes:
Biology > Reptiles
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, organism, Satellite tracking, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, MED, Caretta caretta (Linnaeus, 1758)

Geographical coverage
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -0,5; MinLat: 32,5 - MaxLong: 20,5; MaxLat: 38,5 [WGS84]
Mediterranean [Marine Regions]

Temporal coverage
16 July 2009 - 4 August 2013

Taxonomic coverage
Caretta caretta (Linnaeus, 1758) [WoRMS]

Contributors
University of Pisadata creatordata owner
Luschi, Paolo
Duke University; Marine Geospatial Ecology Labdataset publisher
Seaturtle.orgproposer

Related datasets
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more
OBIS-SEAMAP: Spatial Ecological Analysis of Megavertebrate Populations, more

Data type: Data
Data origin: Monitoring: field survey
Release date: 2021-04-23
Metadatarecord created: 2011-04-06
Information last updated: 2023-04-11
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