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POPA- Fisheries Observer Program of the Azores: Sea turtle sightings in the Azores between 2004 and 2013 recorded by Biosphere Expedition
Citable as data publication
Machete, M.; Institute of Marine Research (IMAR), Portugal; Department of Oceanography and Fisheries, University of the Azores (DOP/UAC), Portugal; (2014): POPA- Fisheries Observer Program of the Azores: Sea turtle sightings in the Azores between 2004 and 2013 recorded by Biosphere Expedition. https://doi.org/10.14284/14
Contact: Machete, Miguel ; Catarino, Diana
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Availability: Creative Commons License This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
Description
Sightings (snap shots) of sea turtles collected by Biosphere Expeditions colaborators specifically for POPA. Since 2004 that Biosphere Expeditions (www.biosphere-expeditions.org) collects data for POPA in the Azores central group in April and May. more

For more detailed information on the dataset, including abundances estimates, please contact data owner (miguel@uac.pt)
Scope
Themes:
Biology > Reptiles
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, Archipelagic waters, Coastal fisheries, ANE, Azores, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, Cryptodira
Geographical coverage
ANE, Azores [Marine Regions]
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -28,9887; MinLat: 38,1567 - MaxLong: -28,1233; MaxLat: 38,8417 [WGS84]
Temporal coverage
2004 - 2013
Taxonomic coverage
Cryptodira [WoRMS]
Parameter
Animal sightings
Contributors
University of the Azores; Department of Oceanography and Fisheries (DOP), more, data creator
Machete, Miguel
Catarino, Diana
Institute of Marine Research (IMAR), more, data creator
Biosphere Expeditions, more
Hammer, Matthias
Related datasets
Parent dataset:
POPA: Azores Fisheries Observation Programme: POPA cetacean, seabird, and sea turtle sightings in the Azores area, more
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more
(Partly) included in:
Gridded abundance map of the loggerhead sea turtle Caretta Caretta around the Azores, more
Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Monitoring: field survey
Metadatarecord created: 2015-01-19
Information last updated: 2022-08-01
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