Descrição
Registros de Dados
Os dados deste recurso de evento de amostragem foram publicados como um Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), que é o formato padronizado para compartilhamento de dados de biodiversidade como um conjunto de uma ou mais tabelas de dados. A tabela de dados do núcleo contém 24.868 registros.
Também existem 2 tabelas de dados de extensão. Um registro de extensão fornece informações adicionais sobre um registro do núcleo. O número de registros em cada tabela de dados de extensão é ilustrado abaixo.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Versões
A tabela abaixo mostra apenas versões de recursos que são publicamente acessíveis.
Como citar
Pesquisadores deveriam citar esta obra da seguinte maneira:
Butler, E.C., Hempel, C.D., Drymon, J.M., Wells, R.J.D. 2025. Navigating Conservation in the Turks and Caicos Islands: establishing the Turks and Caicos Acoustic Telemetry (TCAT) Network to inform marine spatial management and species conservation. Accessed via the Ocean Tracking Network OBIS IPT on INSERT DATE
Direitos
Pesquisadores devem respeitar a seguinte declaração de direitos:
O editor e o detentor dos direitos deste trabalho é Ocean Tracking Network. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
Este recurso foi registrado no GBIF e atribuído ao seguinte GBIF UUID: e575d83e-6fe6-4135-83f0-157c8f5239bf. Ocean Tracking Network publica este recurso, e está registrado no GBIF como um publicador de dados aprovado por Ocean Biodiversity Information System.
Palavras-chave
ACOUSTIC TAGS; EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > FISH; Occurrence; Samplingevent; Observation
Dados externos
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| Turks and Caicos Acoustic Telemetry (TCAT) Network | https://members.oceantrack.org/project?ccode=TCAT ASCII HTM |
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Contatos
- Originador ●
- Ponto De Contato
- Data Manager
- Dalhousie University
- +1 (902) 494-4101
- Pesquisador Principal
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6430-4589
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Cobertura Geográfica
PROVIDENCIALES
| Coordenadas delimitadoras | Sul Oeste [21,551, -72,646], Norte Leste [22,086, -71,746] |
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Cobertura Taxonômica
Species included below are tagged by this project and have left any embargo. Other individuals or species may later be appended to this dataset.
| Espécie | Aetobatus narinari (whitespotted eagle ray), Albula vulpes (Atlantic bonefish), Hypanus americanus (southern stingray), Lutjanus analis (mutton snapper), Lutjanus griseus (gray snapper) |
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Cobertura Temporal
| Data Inicial | 2025-09-01 |
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Dados Sobre o Projeto
The relationship between people and the ocean in the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) has shifted dramatically over the past three decades, with rapid growth in tourism, coastal development, and fishing pressure placing increasing strain on fragile marine ecosystems. These pressures, compounded by climate change, threaten biodiversity and the long-term sustainability of TCI's economy, which is heavily reliant on healthy marine environments. While Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) were established as early as the late 1970s, many suffer from inadequate capacity for long-term monitoring and management and poor user compliance, limiting their utility. Currently, there is opportunity for meaningful conservation impact, due to an availability of compatible research equipment in the territory and heightened political interest locally in evaluating and possibly amending the MPA network. To target this opportunity, a network of 20-35 acoustic receivers will be installed across strategic areas spanning four existing MPAs, two proposed area extensions, and adjacent unprotected waters. The project will investigate species residency, habitat use, and area connectivity for approximately 90 animals across at least three ecologically and/or economically important target species (using surgically implanted Innovasea V13 and V16 transmitters). Mutton snapper (Lutjanus analis) and whitespotted eagle rays (Aetobatus narinari) are identified as priority species in the initial phase, with southern stingrays (Hypanus americanus) selected as a third focal species. Findings will directly inform marine spatial planning, strengthen local management and monitoring capacity, and contribute to the establishment of the Turks and Caicos Acoustic Telemetry (TCAT) Network as a long-term shared resource for environmental monitoring and species conservation.
| Título | Navigating Conservation in the Turks and Caicos Islands: establishing the Turks and Caicos Acoustic Telemetry (TCAT) Network to inform marine spatial management and species conservation. |
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| Financiamento | No funding information for this project was provided to OTN for publication. OTN is a research and technology development initiative headquartered at Dalhousie University, in Halifax, Nova Scotia. OTN is funded by the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) and is grateful to have once received funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and the Social Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). |
| Descrição da Área de Estudo | No study area description for this project was provided to OTN for publication. |
| Descrição do Design | A wide range of aquatic species are tagged with small electronic transmitters, surgically implanted or attached externally, which can operate for up to 20 years. Acoustic receivers arranged in line on the ocean floor as well as attached to buoys, gliders and large animals (e.g. grey seals) pick up the coded acoustic signals from these tags identifying each tagged sea creature that passes within half a kilometer of the receiver. Data collected by these listening stations are subsequently uploaded to one of many compatible data nodes, adding to the reach of an intercompatible network of networks designed and maintained by the Ocean Tracking Network, producing current and reliable records for every part of the globe. Certain classes of electronic tags and listening equipment (receivers) may also be outfitted or co-located with sensors to measure the ocean's temperature, depth, salinity, currents, chemistry, and other properties. |
O pessoal envolvido no projeto:
Métodos de Amostragem
Acoustic tags released.
| Área de Estudo | Program started 2025-09-01 and ran until None |
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| Controle de Qualidade | OTN species names are verified using the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS). If species names on new data cannot be verified against (a) known valid names in OTN, and/or (b) WoRMs the Data Provider will be notified so they can check they are correct. Names that cannot be placed after checking with WoRMS are, where possible, placed on the basis of other authoritative sources, such as the Fishbase or ITIS; and once completely verified a request will be sent to WoRMS for addition of the verified species name. http://members.oceantrack.org/data/discovery/byspecies |
Descrição dos passos do método:
- This resource was created by the Ocean Tracking Network Data Centre as a summarized representation of animal presence determined by electronic tagging efforts. Darwin Core (DwC) records were extracted from the OTN database and filtered and summarized according to international agreed-upon standards.
Citações bibliográficas
- Butler, E.C., Hempel, C.D., Drymon, J.M., Wells, R.J.D. 2025. Navigating Conservation in the Turks and Caicos Islands: establishing the Turks and Caicos Acoustic Telemetry (TCAT) Network to inform marine spatial management and species conservation In: Ocean Tracking Network Data Centre, Halifax Canada / otndc@dal.ca Retrieved: 2026-05-20 from db.load.oceantrack.org
Metadados Adicionais
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| Identificadores alternativos | 10.14286/v2f1md |
| https://members.oceantrack.org/ipt/resource?r=otnpcsfturksandcaicosacou |