Male sea turtle telemetry (2009-2020) reveals high overlap with anthropogenic threats in the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean

Description

This dataset contains cumulative threat data for several species of male sea turtles tagged with satellite tags between 2009 and 2020. It contains information on species, capture date, days during tracking spent in marine protected areas, shipping lanes, near the coast, near oil rigs, and within known fishing operations. This dataset thus allows estimation of threat levels from these anthropogenic pressures for sea turtles tagged in different study sites in the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean.

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Name Format Description Link
55 Landing page for access to the data https://doi.org/10.5066/P958OAKJ
55 The metadata original format https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.62a8921ed34ec53d2770ec16.xml

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  • gulf-of-mexico
  • sea-turtles
  • telemetry
  • usgs-62a8921ed34ec53d2770ec16
  • biota
  • caribbean-sea
  • tracking
  • florida-keys
  • usgs-metadata-identifier

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