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North Carolina Long-Term Sea Turtle Monitoring Project

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Description
Monitoring data of migratory movements and foraging behavior of loggerhead sea turtles from North Carolina. more

This project seeks to find out more about the migratory movements and foraging behavior of loggerhead sea turtles from North Carolina. Four nesting females have been tracked each year from 2003 through 2008 and made impressive movements as far north as New Jersey, and south as far as the Bahamas and Florida Keys. To date the transmitters have provided novel data about the migratory and foraging behavior and natural history of the loggerhead sea turtle in this region (Hawkes et al 2007). Recent studies suggest that rising temperatures in Florida may threaten successful production of loggerhead hatchlings and that the northern subpopulation of loggerhead sea turtles in the southeastern US (Georgia to North Carolina) may represent a buffer against potential climate change (Hawkes et al 2007). This project complements results from previous years and provide insights in to the long-term movement patterns of this critical segment of the largest loggerhead nesting population in the world. Through the deployment of a small number of satellite transmitters over a large timespan we hope to monitor and document potential changes in individual and population level movement patterns. Dataset credit: The Seaturtle.org Animal Tracking Program Project partners: Seaturtle.org, North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission and Duke University Marine Laboratory Project sponsor: Hammocks Beach State Park, of the North Carolina Division of Parks and Recreation, facilitated the tagging of Pati

Scope
Themes:
Biology > Reptiles
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, A, North Atlantic, Caretta caretta (Linnaeus, 1758), Lepidochelys kempii Garman, 1880

Geographical coverage
A, North Atlantic [Marine Regions]

Temporal coverage
26 June 2010 - 19 November 2012

Taxonomic coverage
Caretta caretta (Linnaeus, 1758) [WoRMS]
Lepidochelys kempii Garman, 1880 [WoRMS]

Contributors
Seaturtle.org, moredata owner

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

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Dataset status: In Progress
Data type: Data
Data origin: Monitoring: field survey
Metadatarecord created: 2012-11-26
Information last updated: 2012-11-26
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