Avona - Identification of Important Turtle Areas for green turtles in the Sulu Sulawesi Marine Ecoregion

A project of Marine Research Foundation.

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Background

This female green turtle was tagged after laying eggs with the assistance elf Sabah Parks rangers, and now carries tags 103791 on the left front flipper and 103780 on the right front flipper. Her new shiny satellite transmitter will help us learn about the interesting movements (where the turtles reside in the periods between laying eggs), and then about her migration routes and finally her foraging grounds (where she lives most of the time feeding). This data will allow us to develop more effective and robust collaborative conservation programmes for sea turtles in the Sulu Sulawesi Marine Ecoregion.

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• This map connects positions generated by the ARGOS system designated as location class (lc) '4', '3', '2', '1', '0', 'A', 'B'. Locations that have been "filtered" are displayed as small red dots.
• This maps also shows locations of class 'Z', 'X' as small black dots which are not connected by a route line.
• Bathymetry layers are derived from the GEBCO One Minute Grid.
• Sea surface temperature and chlorophyll are derived from NASA's Ocean Color data.
• Ocean currents and sea surface heights are derived from AVISO's Ssalto/Duacs Gridded Absolute Dynamic Topography & absolute geostrophic velocities data.

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