Dataset

Movement patterns of nesting green turtles in Tanzania (aggregated per 1-degree cell)

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Original provider: Sea Sense Dataset credits: Data provider Sea Sense, Tanzania Originating data center Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool (STAT) Abstract: Sea Sense is conducting research into the migratory behaviour of green turtles to better understand their movements and identify important foraging grounds and migratory corridors in the western Indian Ocean region. This kind of information is being used in Tanzania to develop a National Sea Turtle Status Report which will eventually feed into a National Sea Turtle Recovery Plan. To date, satellite tags have been deployed on nesting green turtles in Mafia Island, Temeke and Pangani which are the three most important green turtle rookeries in Tanzania. This dataset is a summarized representation of the telemetry locations aggregated per species per 1-degree cell.

Citation: West L. 2024. Movement patterns of nesting green turtles in Tanzania. 1.0.0. Dataset published in OBIS-SEAMAP and originated from Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool (STAT; http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/index.shtml?project_id=918). https://doi.org/10.82144/d1c2b8a3.

Published: October 08, 2025 at 01:03

URL: http://ipt.env.duke.edu/resource?r=zd_1003_1deg

Lindsey West
Sea Sense

Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool
seaturtle.org

17
occurrence records
1
taxa
1
species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
maximumDepthInMeters 17
100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters 17
100.0%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 17
100.0%
ON_LAND 6
35.3%

Measurement types

DNA derived data