Satellite tracking data for post-nesting green turtles from Northwest Florida (2002-2020)
January 25, 2023
This dataset includes processed satellite tracking data collected from green turtles between July 2002 and October 2020 in the Gulf of Mexico along the west coast of Florida from the Florida Keys to the Gulf Islands National Seashore. It contains model output including from the state-space model (SSM) described in Lamont et al. (2022) and centroids associated with the 50 percent and 95 percent kernel density estimates for turtles with greater than or equal to 20 days in either foraging or inter-nesting habitat of SSM locations.
Citation Information
| Publication Year | 2023 |
|---|---|
| Title | Satellite tracking data for post-nesting green turtles from Northwest Florida (2002-2020) |
| DOI | 10.5066/P9V4TIUB |
| Authors | Margaret M Lamont, Allison M Benscoter, Melissa E Price, Kristen M Hart |
| Product Type | Data Release |
| Record Source | USGS Digital Object Identifier Catalog |
| USGS Organization | Wetland and Aquatic Research Center |
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