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MERMOZ: Marine Ecological connectivity and conseRvation in the MOZambique Channel  - MERMOZ Project - EUROPA Phase.
Citation
Bourjea, J. (2026) MERMOZ: Marine Ecological connectivity and conseRvation in the MOZambique Channel. https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/8983

Availability: This work is licensed under http://vocab.nerc.ac.uk/collection/L08/current/MO meaning it is under moratorium until 2032-09-08

Description

The objectives of this project, whose acoustic telemetry phase will take place on EUROPA Island, are to acquire data and contribute to the development of new tools and methodologies to better estimate the interactions of turtle populations with human activities and to study the influence of available environmental variables on the dispersion and behavior of juvenile individuals. Ultimately, this project could enable the scientific community and managers of French National Action Plans for sea turtles to propose innovative and relevant approaches to population monitoring based on this new knowledge and an automatic and sustainable data collection system for juvenile sea turtles, adapted to isolated environments and capable of being extended to other fragile species of high heritage value.


Scope
Themes:
Biology, Biology > Acoustics, Biology > Ecology - biodiversity, Biology > Fish, Fisheries > Fish stocks/catches/taggings
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal · Acoustic data · Acoustic detection · Acoustic devices · Acoustic tags · Acoustic Tags · Acoustic telemetry · Acoustic Telemetry · Acoustic tracking · Animal movement · Animal Project · Animal tracking · Juveniles · Marine animal ecology · Marine turtles · Sea turtles · French part of the Mozambique Channel (Europa Island) · Chelonia mydas (Linnaeus, 1758) · Eretmochelys imbricata (Linnaeus, 1766)

Geographical coverage
French part of the Mozambique Channel (Europa Island) [Marine Regions]

Temporal coverage
1 October 2026 - 9 September 2030

Taxonomic coverage
Chelonia mydas (Linnaeus, 1758) [WoRMS]
Eretmochelys imbricata (Linnaeus, 1766) [WoRMS]

Parameter
Acoustic detections Methodology
Acoustic detections: Acoustic telemetry

Contributors
Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER), moreprincipal investigatordata creator

Related datasets
Parent dataset:
European Tracking Network (ETN) data, more
Other relation:
MERMOZ_ARRAY: Acoustic Telemetry Array in the Mozambique Channel, more

Dataset status: Planned
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research: field experiment
Metadatarecord created: 2026-01-12
Information last updated: 2026-01-12
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