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Green turtles in the Canary Islands (aggregated per 1-degree cell) [La tortuga verde en las islas Canarias (aggregated per 1-degree cell)]
Citation
Liria A. 2021. La tortuga verde en las islas Canarias / Green turtles in the Canary Islands. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1170) on yyyy-mm-dd originated from Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool (STAT; http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/index.shtml?project_id=988).. https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/4806
Contact: Liria Loza, Ana
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Archived data
Availability: Creative Commons License This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Notes: Only data aggregated per 1-degree cell are available through OBIS. For access to additional data, the provider needs to be contacted.
Description

Several species of sea turtles can be observed in waters off the Canary Islands (Eastern Atlantic). One of them is the green turtle (Chelonia mydas), less frequent than the loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta), and with little information.

The NGO ADS Biodiversidad is currently developing a project based on the green turtle and this satellite tracking programme forms part of it. The aims of this project are to determine the origin of these individuals, know their distribution in this area, determine the habitats that they are using and define if they are linked or not to protected areas (e.g. Natura 2000 network). Furthermore, the main pressures and threats that are affecting to this species will be determined.

Results of this project will be disclosed among the local population, that poorly know the presence of the species in Canarian waters, even for some professionals that interact directly with them (e.g. fishermen and divers).

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Project title: The green turtle (Chelonia mydas) and the Natura 2000 network in the Canary Islands.
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.

Lineage
Prior to publication data undergo quality control checked which are described in https://github.com/EMODnet/EMODnetBiocheck?tab=readme-ov-file#understanding-the-output
Scope
Themes:
Biology > Reptiles
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Bio-geographical regions, Biota, Environment, Geoscientific Information, Habitats and biotopes, Metadata non conformant, Metadata not evaluated, No limitations to public access, Oceans, organism, Sea regions, WGS84 (EPSG:4326), XYZ ASCII, ASE, Canary I., EurOBIS calculated BBOX, Chelonia mydas (Linnaeus, 1758)
Geographical coverage
ASE, Canary I. [Marine Regions]
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -17,5; MinLat: 27,5 - MaxLong: -15,5; MaxLat: 28,5 [WGS84]
Temporal coverage
26 April 2014 - 29 November 2014
Taxonomic coverage
Chelonia mydas (Linnaeus, 1758) [WoRMS]
Parameter
Occurrence of biota
Contributors
ADS Biodiversidad, data creator, data owner
Liria Loza, Ana
Duke University; Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences; Marine Laboratory, dataset publisher
Seaturtle.org, data provider
Related datasets
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System
OBIS-SEAMAP: Spatial Ecological Analysis of Megavertebrate Populations
Publication
Based on this dataset
Coyne, M.S.; Godley, B.J. (2005). Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool (STAT): an integrated system for archiving, analyzing and mapping animal tracking data. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 301: 1-7
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Dataset information:
Other:
Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research: field survey
Release date: 2018-03-13
Metadatarecord created: 2015-03-18
Information last updated: 2025-03-26
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