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Green Turtles in Syria (aggregated per 1-degree cell)
Citation
Rees A. 2021. Green Turtles in Syria. Data originated from Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool (STAT; http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/index.shtml?project_id=76). https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/8272
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

In 2004, an important new green turtle rookery was dicovered in Syria. Follow up work discovered sea turtles are being utilised as food in the country and are being negatively impacted by fisheries interaction. In 2006 we are continuing the vital work from the last years and tracking a green turtle to identify her internesting habitat and post breeding migration. This was originally planned for 2005 but not realised due to the low nesting levels that year.

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Original provider: ARCHELON, the Sea Turtle Protection Society of Greece 

Dataset credits: Data provider ARCHELON (2004-2007) 

Originating data center Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool (STAT)

Project partner ARCHELON, the Sea Turtle Protection Society of Greece has been conserving turtles in Greece since 1983. In 2004 it expanded its work to coordinate and initiate a project in Syria. Project sponsor or sponsor description The transmitter was purchased thanks to an award from the British Chelonia Group and is supported by SEATURTLE.ORG and Ford - Middle East.

The project has been supported by the Marine Conservation Society Turtle Conservation Fund. 

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, Eastern Mediterranean, Chelonia mydas (Linnaeus, 1758)
Geographical coverage
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: 24,5; MinLat: 30,5 - MaxLong: 35,5; MaxLat: 35,5 [WGS84]
MED, Eastern Mediterranean [Marine Regions]
Temporal coverage
9 July 2006 - 8 October 2006
Taxonomic coverage
Chelonia mydas (Linnaeus, 1758) [WoRMS]
Contributors
Archelon - Sea Turtle Protection Society, more, data creator, data owner
Rees, Alan
Duke University; Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, more, dataset publisher
Seaturtle.org, more, proposer
Related datasets
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more
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Data type: Data
Release date: 2021-04-24
Metadatarecord created: 2023-04-06
Information last updated: 2024-07-08
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