https://doi.org/10.82144/e379e535 https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/439 https://www.gbif.org/dataset/6551a4f8-2034-4c13-bac9-f66a2de02ded https://obis.org/dataset/30bc7528-925f-4df4-b89b-d204ab024294 Paolo Luschi University of Pisa Primary contact pluschi@biologia.unipi.it OBIS-SEAMAP Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Duke University

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seamap-contact@duke.edu https://seamap.env.duke.edu distributor Paolo Luschi University of Pisa Primary contact pluschi@biologia.unipi.it owner 2025-07-31 eng Original provider: Islameta Group, Dept. of Biology - University of Pisa Dataset credits: Islameta Group - Department of Biology, University of Pisa, Italy Abstract: The Indian Ocean has many breeding areas for sea turtles, the southernmost ones being on the Maputaland coast of KwaZulu-Natal, where leatherback turtles nest in large numbers thanks to long-lasting protection programs. For the leatherback this is the only known nesting site in the entire western Indian Ocean. At the end of the reproductive season, leatherbacks undertake migrations towards disparate feeding areas. To contribute to their conservation, the migratory behavior of these animals has been studied by satellite telemetry for several years. This species turned out to frequent widely dispersed areas ranging from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mozambique Channel, performing large-scale wandering probably due to the leatherbacks' feeding habits on macroplankton such as jellyfish and salps. These movements have been shown to be heavily influenced by the main oceanic currents and oceanographic mesoscale features occurring in the areas crossed. Marine Biology Telemetry Tagged animal Radio transmitters Animal movements leatherback migration currents N/A This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License. https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/439 Oceans,Indian Ocean,Agulhas Current,South Africa 12.272 38.7 -24.683 -41.805 1996-01-16 2003-07-16 Scientific names are based on the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). species Dermochelys coriacea Leatherback sea turtle Documenting the extent of the post-nesting movements of leatherbacks nesting in South Africa and understand their behavior. notPlanned Paolo Luschi University of Pisa Primary contact pluschi@biologia.unipi.it NA NA NA Paolo Luschi owner NA zd_439 2025-07-31T14:17:40-04:00 dataset Luschi, P. 2012. Leatherback Tracking in South Africa. Version 1.0.0. Dataset published in OBIS-SEAMAP. https://doi.org/10.82144/e379e535. OBIS-SEAMAP Dataset Page UTF-8 Interactive map https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/439 FGDC Metadata UTF-8 XML https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/439/fgdc EML Metadata UTF-8 XML https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/439/eml OBIS-SEAMAP zd_439 zd_439 Luschi, P., J.R.E. Lutjeharms, P. Lambardi, R. Mencacci, G.R. Hughes, and C.G. Hays. 2006. A review of migratory behaviour of sea turtles off southeastern Africa. South African Journal of Science: 102: 51-58.