Green Turtle Diel Movement and Site Fidelity Tracked by Fastloc-GPS in Southeast Asia

Three green turtles were tracked via Fastloc-GPS satellite telemetry across three sites in Southeast Asia for 57 to 155 days. The dataset includes tracks from an adult female through nesting, migration, and foraging phases, and two resident foragers. It was authored by Kui Ding and published on figshare under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Modeling diel activity patterns based on described daytime versus nighttime movement speeds and home range contraction.
• Analyzing site fidelity and home range areas based on kernel density estimations mentioned in the description.
• Studying post-nesting migration behavior based on the 7-day, 170 km coastal migration track.
• Investigating potential cleaning station use based on the described early-morning detour pattern of one individual.

Strengths

• Includes detailed movement data across three distinct behavioral phases: internesting, migration, and foraging.
• Tracks three individuals for substantial durations, with one tracked for 155 days.
• Provides quantitative behavioral metrics, such as home range contraction from 2.13 to 0.06 km² for one individual.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The dataset is small (2.8 MB), suggesting limited scale.

Provenance

Source

figshare, authored by Kui Ding.

Collection Method

Data gathered using Fastloc-GPS satellite telemetry.

Time Range

Tracking durations of 57, 64, and 155 days for the three individuals.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-22 08:12:49; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Southeast Asia, specifically the Andaman Sea, Brunei Bay, and the Gulf of Thailand.