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ARCAS sea turtle strandings at Hawaii, Guatemala 2010-2013
Citation
Muccio, Colum. 2014. ARCAS sea turtle strandings at Hawaii, Guatemala 2010-2013. Provided by Colum Muccio, Asociacion Rescate y Conservacion de Vida Silvestres (ARCAS) and downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP on (access date). https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/4906
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Muccio, Colum Availability:
 This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Description
In 2011, ARCAS documented the mortality of 39 olive ridley sea turtles in the área of Hawaii on the Pacific coast of Guatemala. Another mortality of 128 turtlesm occured in 2013 in an área stretching roughly from the resort of Monterrico to the Salvadoran border. Unlike the 2011 stranding, which was all but one Green, entirely olive ridleys, the 2013 had more of a mix of species, including 113 olive ridleys, 13 greens, 1 hawksbill and 1 leatherback. at the same time, in neighboring El Salvador, there was a stranding of 190 sea turtles. more
A stranding of Olive Ridley on 8/29/2012 was deleted as the location of this event was inaccurate. Scope Themes: Biology > Reptiles Keywords: Marine/Coastal, ISE, Guatemala, Chelonia mydas (Linnaeus, 1758), Dermochelys coriacea (Vandelli, 1761), Eretmochelys imbricata (Linnaeus, 1766), Lepidochelys olivacea (Eschscholtz, 1829) Geographical coverage ISE, Guatemala [Marine Regions] Temporal coverage
9 October 2010 - 3 September 2013 Taxonomic coverage
Parameters
Occurrence of biota Strandings Contributors
Wildlife Rescue and Conservation Association (ARCAS), more, data creator
Related datasets
Published in: OBIS-SEAMAP: Spatial Ecological Analysis of Megavertebrate Populations, more Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research: field survey
Metadatarecord created: 2015-04-14
Information last updated: 2015-04-14
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