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Juvenile loggerheads from Lampedusa Island, Italy
Contact: Luschi, Paolo

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Description
Lampedusa is an island located on the northern edge of the Gulf of Gabés, one of the most important foraging grounds for both adult and juvenile loggerheads living in the Mediterranean Sea. This project aims at investigating the movements of the neritic-stage juvenile turtles in this area.

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

Geographical coverage
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -14,5; MinLat: 32,5 - MaxLong: 29,5; MaxLat: 42,5 [WGS84]
MED, Mediterranean [Marine Regions]

Temporal coverage
6 March 2007 - 23 September 2007

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

Contributors
University of Pisa; Department of Biology; Islameta Groupdata provider
University of Pisa
Luschi, Paolo
Seaturtle.org
Coyne, Michael

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

Publication
Based on this dataset
Casale, P. et al. (2012). Long-term residence of juvenile loggerhead turtles to foraging grounds: a potential conservation hotspot in the Mediterranean. Aquat. Conserv. 22(2): 144-154. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/aqc.2222

Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Monitoring: field survey
Metadatarecord created: 2014-01-15
Information last updated: 2014-01-15
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