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Data from an investigation of turtle basking behavior in the Atchafalaya Basin of south-central Louisiana in 2021

Dates

Publication Date
Start Date
2021-04-20
End Date
2021-10-21

Citation

Glorioso, B.M., 2022, Data from an investigation of turtle basking behavior in the Atchafalaya Basin of south-central Louisiana in 2021: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P99RB8XY.

Summary

The dataset is comprised of game camera photos taken at known turtle basking structures in the Atchafalaya Basin's Little Alabama Bayou in south-central Louisiana. There was a spring camera deployment in April 2021 and a fall camera deployment in October 2021. Three game cameras were used in each deployment and photos were taken every two minutes for seven days for each camera. The photos in this release are those in which turtles, or other vertebrates, can be seen. Photos with no vertebrates were excluded from the release and do not provide any data.

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Brad M Glorioso
Originator :
Brad M Glorioso
Metadata Contact :
Brad M Glorioso
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase
SDC Data Owner :
Wetland and Aquatic Research Center
USGS Mission Area :
Ecosystems

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Basking_Turtles_Atchafalaya.xml
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IM_02987.JPG thumbnail 3.34 MB image/jpeg
1.82 GB application/zip
2 GB application/zip
Fall 2021 Camera DD.zip 21.45 MB application/zip
3.43 GB application/zip
Spring 2021 Camera CC.zip 517.48 MB application/zip
Spring 2021 Camera DD.zip 420.34 MB application/zip

Purpose

These data are part of an international effort led by Australian researchers to examine basking timing in turtles across the world, especially as it relates to areas both having and not having crocodilians, a potential predator of turtles. The Australians recently discovered some turtles perched on woody structures out of the water at night and surmised that this behavior was possibly to avoid predation by nocturnal crocodilians as it would not serve its typical thermoregulatory function at night.
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