Sea turtles validated sightings reported in the Mediterranean Sea from 2019 onwards by avvistAPP users
Citation
Tirelli V, Goruppi A (2024): Sea turtles validated sightings reported by avvistAPP users. v3.4. National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics. Dataset/Samplingevent. https://doi.org/10.13120/0wuxff https://doi.org/10.13120/23ce-tb78
Contact:
Tirelli, Valentina Availability:
 This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Description
Sampling Methods
avvistAPP is a free citizen science tool that allows everyone to actively contribute to the monitoring of marine animals. Available both in Google and Apple app stores. App description: https://doi.org/10.13120/h127-9v54
Study Extent Mediterranean Sea from 2019 onwards.
Method step description:
The reported sightings are validated by researchers. Lineage
Prior to publication data undergo quality control checked which are described in https://github.com/EMODnet/EMODnetBiocheck?tab=readme-ov-file#understanding-the-output Scope Themes: Biology > Reptiles Keywords: Marine/Coastal · Bio-geographical regions · Biota · Citizen science · Environment · EurOBIS calculated BBOX · Geoscientific Information · Habitats and biotopes · MED · Metadata non conformant · Metadata not evaluated · No limitations to public access · Oceans · Sea regions · WGS84 (EPSG:4326) · XYZ ASCII · MED, Adriatic Sea · Mediterranean Sea · Caretta caretta (Linnaeus, 1758) · Cheloniidae Oppel, 1811 · Dermochelyidae Fitzinger, 1843 Geographical coverage EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box Coordinates: MinLong: 12,2398; MinLat: 35,843 - MaxLong: 16,3879; MaxLat: 45,7895 [WGS84] MED, Adriatic Sea [Marine Regions] Mediterranean Sea [Marine Regions] Temporal coverage
7 August 2019 - 13 November 2022 Taxonomic coverage
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Published in: EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more
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Dataset information: Other: Dataset status: In Progress
Data type: Data
Data origin: Citizen science
Release date: 2022-01-26
Metadatarecord created: 2021-12-16
Information last updated: 2025-03-26
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