Andalusia, Spain. Small loggerheads from a nest at Pulpí (Almería)

Data provider
Seguimiento de juveniles de Tortuga boba
Originating data center
Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool (STAT)
Project partner
Doñana Biological Station, CSIC
Universitat Politècnica of València UPV-IGIC
Unidad de Zoología Marina, Universidad de Valencia UV
Asociación Española de Herpetología-AHE
Environmental Office of Andalusia
Aquarium of Sevilla
NGO Equinac
Fundación Hombre y Territorio

Project sponsor or sponsor description
This project was funded by
1. Ministerio de Agricultura y Medio Ambiente (Spain),16MNSV006, Marcaje y seguimiento con emisores satelitales de especies protegidas: tortugas bobas (Caretta caretta) de un año de edad procedentes de nidos del mediterráneo peninsular.
2. Universitat Politècnica de València (ARGOS).
3Fundación Hombre y Territorio which provided funds throw a crowfunding initiative for one of the tags (Morla)

The project aims to study the distribution and dispersal of juvenile loggerheads. The juvenile are < 1 year. They come from a a headstarting program with eggs from a nest found at a beach in Pulpi (Andalusia, Spain). This is the second nest ever found at this region. The nest was found at Palmeras Beach (Pulpi) by a fishermen family and rescued by the NGO Equinac.
Te nest was doomed and the eggs were relocated and incubated at the Doñana Biological Station (CSIC). Neonates were raised at the Acuario de Sevilla (Sevilla, Spain) and the CEGMA of Algeciras. Tagging was conducted by researchers from Universitat Politècnica de Valencia-IGIC and University of Valencia.

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Overview

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Attributes in dataset

Attribute (table column)	Description
prognum	Program number
tag_id	PTT ID
lc	Location class
iq	Quality indicator
dir1	Dir 1
nb_mes	Number of messages received
big_nb_mes	definition not provided
best_level	Best signal strength in dB
pass_duration	Pass duration in seconds
nopc	Number Of Plausibility Checks successful (from 0-4)
calcul_freq	Calculated frequency
altitude	Altitude used for location calculation
sensors	Sensors
species	Species name
project_id	STAT Project ID
lc_filter	Parameters to location filtering
speed_filter	Parameters to speed filtering
distance_filter	Parameters to distance filtering
topo_filter	Parameters to topo filtering
time_filter	Parameters to time filtering
angle_filter	Parameters to angle filtering
life_stage	Life stage of the animal
gender	Gender of the animal
wetdry	Wet or dry
wetdry_filter	Parameters to Wet or dry filterint
obs_datetime	Date and time (local time zone)
timezone_h	Time difference from UTC