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Satellite tracked green turtles in the South China Sea 1993-1994
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 This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.Description
Five females of Chelonia mydas were tracked by satellite in the South China Sea in 1993 and 1994. Four of them reached their feeding grounds 600-1551 km distant. Part of the journeys occurred coastwise, indicating that leading geographical features had been utilized. The straightness of the turtles' tracks in open seas, both over shallow and deep waters, and their ability to pinpoint distant targets provides circumstantial evidence for a true navigation mechanism. This dataset is a summarized representation of the telemetry locations aggregated per species per 1-degree cell. Scope Themes: Biology > Reptiles Keywords: Marine/Coastal, ISEW, Marianas, Northern Marianas, ISEW, Marianas, Northern Marianas, Saipan, ISEW, South China Sea, Chelonia mydas (Linnaeus, 1758) Geographical coverage ISEW, Marianas, Northern Marianas ISEW, Marianas, Northern Marianas, Saipan ISEW, South China Sea [Marine Regions] Temporal coverage
23 September 1993 - 24 October 1994 Taxonomic coverage
Chelonia mydas (Linnaeus, 1758) [WoRMS]
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Based on this dataset
Luschi, P. et al. (1996). Long-distance migration and homing after displacement in the green turtle (Chelonia mydas): a satellite tracking study. J. Comp. Physiol. A Sens. Neural Behav. Physiol. 178(4): 447-452. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00190175, more
Papi, F. et al. (1995). Long-range migratory travel of a green turtle tracked by satellite: evidence for navigational ability in the open sea. Mar. Biol. (Berl.) 122(2): 171-175. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00348929, more
Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research: field survey
Metadatarecord created: 2015-03-23
Information last updated: 2015-03-23
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