AICM satellite tracked loggerhead sea turtles from Mozambique 2012 under SWIOFP
Associação para Investigação Costeira e Marinha
Dataset credit
Associação para Investigação Costeira e Marinha Institut Français pour L'Exploitation de la Mer Kélonia
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Contacts
Role | Name | Organization | |
Primary contact |
Eduardo Videira |
Associação para Investigação Costeira e Marinha |
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Secondary contact |
Mayeul Dalleau |
CEDTM |
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Secondary contact |
Jérôme Bourjea |
IFREMER |
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Secondary contact |
Marcos Pereira |
Centro Terra Viva - Estudos e Advocacia Ambiental |
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Data entry |
Ei Fujioka |
Duke University |
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Citation
Videira, E., M. Dalleau, J. Bourjea and M. Pereira. 2015. AICM satellite tracked loggerhead sea turtles from Mozambique 2012 under SWIOFP. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1118) on yyyy-mm-dd. Halpin, P.N., A.J. Read, E. Fujioka, B.D. Best, B. Donnelly, L.J. Hazen, C. Kot, K. Urian, E. LaBrecque, A. Dimatteo, J. Cleary, C. Good, L.B. Crowder, and K.D. Hyrenbach. 2009. OBIS-SEAMAP: The world data center for marine mammal, sea bird, and sea turtle distributions. Oceanography. 22(2):104-115.
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Abstract
As part of Component 5 of the South West Indian Ocean Fisheries Project (SWIOFP; http://www.swiofp.net), three Loggerhead turtles (named “Lurdes”, “Esperança” and “Mingas”) nesting at the Ponta do Ouro Partial Marine Reserve (POPMR) were satellite tagged (Telonics Argos Marine Transmitters TAM-2639).The loggerhead turtles had contrasting migratory routes: Lurdes immediately initiated a near-shore northbound migration, travelling approximately 634 km (monitored distance) during the 15-day monitoring period and probably the turtle was poached, as the last signal from the tag was sent from 2 km inland next to a hut, closed to Baía dos Cocos in Inhambane Province, Mozambique. Mingas was monitored for 73 days and similarly traveled along the coast, all the way to Mozambique Island and across the Mozambique Channel to the NE coast of Madagascar, traversing 3,270 km (ca 2,025 km straight distance).Finally, Esperança was tracked for 2,608 km during 187 days. This turtle travelled along the coast approximately 250 km north (straight distance) of the nesting beach and reached, what is believed to be her feeding grounds on the Mozambique coast between Macaneta and Xai-Xai. This results shows that despite being protected nationally and internationally, poaching is still a serious threat to the conservation of marine turtles in Mozambique (and in the region), which warrants further efforts for their protection.
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Purpose
The purpose of satellite tagging was to analyse loggerhead post-nesting migration, potential feeding grounds as well as population overlap in the Indian Ocean.
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Supplemental information
N/A
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References
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Attributes
Overview
This section explains attributes included in the original dataset.
OBIS-SEAMAP restricts the attributes available to the public to date/time, lat/lon and species names/counts only.
Should you need other attributes described here, you are encouraged to contact the data provider.
Attributes described below represent those in the original dataset provided by the provider.
All attributes are included in the downloadable file (CSV or ESRI File Geodatabase) for "Complete Set of Dataset".
Attributes in dataset
Attribute (table column) | Description |
oid | Unique ID number (generated by OBIS-SEAMAP) |
latitude | Latitude in decimal degrees |
longitude | Longitude in decimal degrees |
tag_id | Tag ID |
obs_datetime | Date and time of observation in local time calculated by OBIS-SEAMAP |
datetime_utc | Date and time of observation in UTC |
lc | Location class |
time_zone | Time zone of the obs_time values (always UTC) |
obs_count | Number of animals (always 1) |
age_class | Age (always Adult) |
sp_tsn | Taxonomic Serial Number added by OBIS-SEAMAP |
sp_obs | Species name recorded |
provider | Data provider |
owner | Data owner |
tagging_lat | Latitude of tagging location |
tagging_lon | Longitude of tagging location |
country | Country |
geom | Geometry field added by OBIS-SEAMAP |
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OBIS-SEAMAP ID | 1118 |
Seabirds | 0 |
Marine mammals | 0 |
Sea turtles | 1,259 |
Rays and sharks | 0 |
Other species | 0 |
Non spatial | 0 |
Non species | 0 |
Total | 1,259 |
Date, Begin | 2012-01-27 |
Date, End | 2012-08-05 |
Temporal prec. | 111111 |
Latitude | -26.93 - -14.44 |
Longitude | 32.74 - 47.48 |
Coord. prec. | 5 decimal digits |
Platform | Tag |
Data type | Telemetry location |
Tracklines | YES (ID: 1119) |
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Traveled (km) | 5,262 |
Travel hours | 6,655 |
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Contr. through | SEAMAP_TO_SWOT |
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Registered | 2014-03-07 |
Updated | 2015-02-26 |
Status | Published |
Sharing policy |
CC-BY (All) |
Shared with |
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GBIF (via DOI)* * Aggregated summary |
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