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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
The project has several objectives:
1. tracking individuals with long remigration histories
2. tracking individuals with original tagging records NOT from Casey Key
3. retracking individuals from the oil spill region or Northern Gulf of Mexico.
4. retracking individuals from Mexico or the Caribbean.
5.tracking individuals with high site fidelity to ensure that datalogger instruments can be recovered. 6. Collecting samples for stable isotope, genetic, and trace metal analyses.

Scope
Themes:
Biology > Reptiles
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, ASW, Caribbean, ASW, USA, Florida, ASW: Cuba, Caretta caretta (Linnaeus, 1758)

Geographical coverage
ASW, Caribbean [Marine Regions]
ASW, USA, Florida [Marine Regions]
ASW: Cuba

Temporal coverage
20 May 2012 - 27 September 2013

Taxonomic coverage
Caretta caretta (Linnaeus, 1758) [WoRMS]

Parameter
Occurrence of biota

Contributor
Mote Marine Laboratory, more

Related datasets
Published in:
OBIS-SEAMAP: Spatial Ecological Analysis of Megavertebrate Populations, more

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, more

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Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research: field survey
Metadatarecord created: 2015-02-24
Information last updated: 2015-08-27
All data in the Integrated Marine Information System (IMIS) is subject to the VLIZ privacy policy