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Cyprus 2018 (aggregated per 1-degree cell)
Citation
Exeter R. 2021. Cyprus 2018. Data originated from Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool (STAT; http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/index.shtml?project_id=1298). https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/8292
Contact: Snape, Robin ;

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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 Society for Protection of Turtles are tracking green turtles nesting in the Karpaz region. We aim to map priority marine habitats around these nesting beaches, which are among the most important in the Mediterranean, to establishing protection for nesting green turtles at sea.

We are also tracking loggerhead turtles nesting at Alagadi to find areas of the Mediterranean Sea that might be important feeding grounds.

In collaboration with small-scale fisheries, we are tracking both green and loggerhead turtles foraging in Famagusta Bay. We want to better understand fisheries bycatch, toward reducing the death toll in this region. For this project we ask fishermen to return to port those live turtles that are hauled in their nets so that we can attach a transmitter and release them back to the capture site. This project is particularly exciting as it includes the first juvenile green and loggerhead turtles and the first male loggerheads to be tracked from the island.

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The project is supported by the Mediterranean Basin Program of the MAVA foundation and is a collaboration between University of Exeter and Birdlife International with Enalia Physis, Birdlife Cyprus and Society for Protection of Turtles implementing work on the ground.

Original provider: University of Exeter 

Dataset credits: Data provider Marine Turtle Research Group 

Originating data center Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool (STAT) 

Project partner http://www.cyprusturtles.org/ 

Project sponsor or sponsor description http://en.mava-foundation.org/our-programmes/mediterranean-basin/ 

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), Chelonia mydas (Linnaeus, 1758)

Geographical coverage
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: 0,5; MinLat: 28,5 - MaxLong: 39,5; MaxLat: 39,5 [WGS84]
Mediterranean [Marine Regions]

Temporal coverage
4 February 2018 - 18 December 2021

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

Contributors
Marine Turtle Research Groupdata creatordata owner
Snape, Robin
Duke University; Marine Geospatial Ecology Labdataset publisher
Seaturtle.orgproposer

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EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more


Release date: 2022-01-10
Metadatarecord created: 2023-04-12
Information last updated: 2023-04-20
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