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Spatial Extent of Data

USGS Data Source

USGS Thesaurus Keywords

telemetry

ISO 19115 Topic Category

biota, oceans

Other Subject Keywords

acoustic telemetry, sea turtles

Place Keywords

Saint Croix (County Equivalent), Buck Island Reef National Monument, Virgin Islands of the United States

Capture histories and tag retention of acoustic-tagged green (Chelonia mydas) and hawksbill (Eretmochelys imbricata) sea turtles, Buck Island Reef National Monument, U.S. Virgin Islands, 2012-2017

This dataset contains the capture histories for juvenile green (Chelonia mydas) and hawksbill (Eretmochelys imbricata) sea turtles tagged with an acoustic telemetry tag between 2012 and 2017. It contains information on how many days had passed since the tag was attached and whether or not the tag was still attached upon recapture. This dataset thus allows estimation of acoustic tag retention rates for these two species of sea turtle in our study site at Buck Island Reef National Monument (BIRNM), St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI).

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Author(s) Kristen M Hart orcid, Thomas H. Selby orcid, Brian M Smith
Publication Date 2019
Beginning Date of Data 2012-03-01
Ending Date of Data 2017-11-30
Data Contact
Kristen M Hart
DOI https://doi.org/10.5066/P998D45N
Citation Hart, K.M., Selby, T.H., and Smith, B.M., 2019, Capture histories and tag retention of acoustic-tagged green (Chelonia mydas) and hawksbill (Eretmochelys imbricata) sea turtles, Buck Island Reef National Monument, U.S. Virgin Islands, 2012-2017: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P998D45N.
Metadata Contact
Brian J Smith
Metadata Date 2020-08-30
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