Table 1.
Summary of rehabilitation information and resulting tracking data for green sea turtles C. mydas released in UAE waters.
Minimum bounding geometry (MBG) and percentage volume contours (PVC) are provided for turtles that remained in the Gulf.
Fig 1.
Horizontal movements of seven rehabilitated green sea turtles satellite tagged and released in Dubai, UAE.
Fig 1A shows the tracks for ‘transient’ turtles and Fig 1B shows the tracks for turtles considered ‘resident’.
Fig 2.
Horizontal movements of ‘Dibba’, a rehabilitated green sea turtle released on the east coast of the UAE in February 2008.
Fig 3.
Overlapping home range usage for seven green sea turtles within the United Arab Emirates.
Fig 4.
Fifty percent (core habitat) and 95% percentage volume contours (PVC) for all turtles that remained within the Gulf.
Fig 5.
Overall percentage of time spent at temperature for all SPOT tagged turtles, split into months, compared to average monthly water temperatures taken in coastal Dubai at 10 m depth (black dots).
No tags were active during the month of November.