Dataset

Stranded sea turtles in the southern Gulf of Mexico

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Original provider: Guzmán-Hernández, V., Rivas-Hernández, G., García-Alvarado, P.A., Huerta-Rodríguez, P., Peralta-Jiménez, X. Dataset credits: Guzmán-Hernández, V., Rivas-Hernández, G., García-Alvarado, P.A., Huerta- Rodríguez, P., Peralta-Jiménez, X. Abstract: The long-term recording of stranded and dead sea turtle individuals in those critical habitats is crucial for management and restoration action planning. In Mexico, some multiple-year operating conservation programs count with a long-term sea turtle mortality database, as in Campeche, Mexico, where some of the largest hawksbill nesting populations in the West Atlantic reside. This dataset is a historic reference baseline about the spatiotemporal mortality patterns of the imperiled sea turtle species in the southeastern Gulf of Mexico, showing their interactions with anthropogenic activities and circumstances that jeopardize their population recovery.

Citation: Guzman, V. and E. Cuevas. 2024. Stranded sea turtles in the southern Gulf of Mexico. Version 1.1.0. Dataset published in OBIS-SEAMAP. https://doi.org/10.82144/7c9b904e.

Published: October 08, 2025 at 14:07

URL: https://ipt.env.duke.edu/resource?r=zd_2290

Vicente Guzman
Convención Interamericana para la Protección y Conservación de las Tortugas Marinas (CIT)

Eduardo Cuevas
Universidad Autónoma de Baja California

901
occurrence records
5
taxa
5
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
maximumDepthInMeters 901
100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters 901
100.0%

Quality flags

The OBIS data quality flags are documented at https://github.com/iobis/obis-qc.

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 901
100.0%
ON_LAND 796
88.3%

Measurement types

DNA derived data