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    • Leatherback sea turtle age and growth

    Metadata Updated: April 1, 2024

    This involves two studies.

    This first study involves analysis of skeletal growth marks in scleral ossicle bones of 33 leatherback sea turtles stranded dead along the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico US coasts (hatchling to adult) and 8 captive-reared juvenile leatherbacks and provides age estimates

    The second later study involves leatherback back-calculated age and growth in the northwest Atlantic Ocean and in the northern Pacific Ocean.

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    Metadata Date February 29, 2024
    Metadata Created Date July 28, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date April 1, 2024
    Reference Date(s) 2001 (creation), 2022 (revision), (publication)
    Frequency Of Update notPlanned

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    Harvested from NMFS SEFSC

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    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Date February 29, 2024
    Metadata Created Date July 28, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date April 1, 2024
    Reference Date(s) 2001 (creation), 2022 (revision), (publication)
    Responsible Party (Point of Contact, Custodian)
    Contact Email
    Guid gov.noaa.nmfs.inport:26473
    Access Constraints Cite As: Southeast Fisheries Science Center, [Date of Access]: Leatherback sea turtle age and growth [Data Date Range], https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/26473., Access Constraints: None, Use Constraints: Please credit appropriately
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    Frequency Of Update notPlanned
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    Harvest Source Id ca759a40-507d-4d0c-8f8c-64b3c5e05066
    Harvest Source Title NMFS SEFSC
    Licence NOAA provides no warranty, nor accepts any liability occurring from any incomplete, incorrect, or misleading data, or from any incorrect, incomplete, or misleading use of the data. It is the responsibility of the user to determine whether or not the data is suitable for the intended purpose.
    Lineage processing steps are shown in associated journal article Avens L, Taylor JC, Goshe LR, Jones TT, Hastings M (2009) Use of skeletochronological analysis to estimate the age of leatherback sea turtles Dermochelys coriacea in the western North Atlantic. Endang Species Res 8:165-177. https://doi.org/10.3354/esr00202
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    Progress completed
    Spatial Data Service Type
    Spatial Reference System
    Spatial Harvester True
    Temporal Extent Begin 2001-05-01
    Temporal Extent End 2008-02-01

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