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Zakynthos Nesting Turtles (aggregated per 1-degree cell)
Citation
Rees A. 2021. Zakynthos Nesting Turtles. Data originated from Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool (STAT; http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/index.shtml?project_id=1340). https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/8282
Contact: Rees, Alan ;

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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

The turtles tracked in this project are of the first loggerheads to be tracked during their postnesting migration from a Greek nesting beach. The project is carried out by the division of Conservation Biology of the University of Berne (Switzerland) in collaboration with ARCHELON, the Sea Turtle Protection Society of Greece. Zakynthos is the largest known sea turtle nesting area of the Mediterranean, hosting about 1/4 of all known loggerhead nesting in the Mediterranean. The nesting beaches of Zakynthos are monitored by ARCHELON since 1983. 

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Original provider: Judith Zbinden 

Dataset credits: Data provider ARCHELON (2004-2007) 

Originating data center 
Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool (STAT)

Project partner 
Division of Conservation Biology (Judith Zbinden, Adrian Aebischer, Raphael Arlettaz) of the University of Berne, Switzerland, and ARCHELON, The Sea Turtle Protection Society of Greece 

Project sponsor or sponsor description 
The MAVA foundation and to a lesser extent the Karl Mayer foundation are funding the project, which is embedded into a larger project including research on different aspects of Zakynthian loggerheads. 

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
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Occurrence, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, MED, Caretta caretta (Linnaeus, 1758)

Geographical coverage
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -58,5; MinLat: 24,5 - MaxLong: 49,5; MaxLat: 57,5 [WGS84]
Mediterranean [Marine Regions]

Temporal coverage
27 June 2004 - 12 August 2006

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

Contributors
Archelon - Sea Turtle Protection Societydata creatordata owner
Rees, Alan
Duke University; Marine Geospatial Ecology Labdataset publisher
Seaturtle.orgproposer

Related datasets
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System


Release date: 2021-04-24
Metadatarecord created: 2023-04-11
Information last updated: 2023-04-20
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