Gabon 2007-08: Mayumba, Leatherback Turtles (aggregated per 1-degree cell)

Matthew Witt

doi:10.15468/e5fk9s

Gabon 2007-08: Mayumba, Leatherback Turtles (aggregated per 1-degree cell)

Citation

Witt M. 2021. Gabon 2007-08: Mayumba, Leatherback Turtles. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1452) on yyyy-mm-dd originated from Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool (STAT; http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/index.shtml?project_id=270). https://doi.org/10.15468/e5fk9s accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-12-12.

Description

Original provider: Seaturtle.org / MTRG Dataset credits: Data provider Marine Turtle Research Group Originating data center Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool (STAT) Project partner In conjunction with Parc National de Mayumba, the Wildlife Conservation Society, Aventures Sans Frontieres and Seaturtle.org, researchers from the University of Exeter have attached satellite transmitters to female leatherback turtles nesting at Mayumba National Park, Gabon . Project sponsor or sponsor description The first season of this project (2005/2006) was part funded by the European Association of Zoos and Aquaria (EAZA) Shellshock Campaign European Association of Zoos & Aquaria. Satellite transmitters attached in the 2007 and 2008 nesting seasons have been funded by the Large Pelagics Research Centre (University of New Hampshire) through National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Agency award NA04NMF4550391. Earlier phases of this project were made possible by funding receieved from the Natural Environment Research Council, UK . Abstract: This project uses satellite telemetry to gain insights into the behaviour of female leatherback turtles (Dermochelys coriacea) nesting at Mayumba National Park in Gabon, a globally important rookery. The project has now entered into its third year of tracking. See the photo library for this project.

This work compliments that carried out by WWF, which studied adults from a range of locations throughout the Atlantic as part of a basin wide project.

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.

Purpose

Not available

Sampling Description

Study Extent

NA

Sampling

NA

Method steps

NA

Additional info

marine, harvested by iOBIS

Taxonomic Coverages

Scientific names are based on the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).

Dermochelys coriacea
common name: Leatherback Sea Turtle rank: species

Geographic Coverages

Oceans

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

Matthew Witt
originator
position: Primary contact
Marine Turtle Research Group
email: m.j.witt@ex.ac.uk

OBIS-SEAMAP
metadata author
Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Duke University
A328 LSRC building
Durham
27708
NC
US
email: seamap-contact@duke.edu
homepage: http://seamap.env.duke.edu

OBIS-SEAMAP
distributor
Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Duke University
A328 LSRC building
Durham
27708
NC
US
email: seamap-contact@duke.edu
homepage: http://seamap.env.duke.edu

Matthew Witt
owner
position: Primary contact
Marine Turtle Research Group
email: m.j.witt@ex.ac.uk

Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool
originator
seaturtle.org
email: mcoyne@seaturtle.org
homepage: http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/

Matthew Witt
administrative point of contact
position: Primary contact
Marine Turtle Research Group
email: m.j.witt@ex.ac.uk