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GPS telemetry of Florida manatees and riverine water temperatures from southwest Florida 2002-2015

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2000
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2015

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Slone, D.H., Reid, J.P., Butler, S., Haase, C.G., and Fletcher , R.J., Jr., 2022, GPS telemetry of Florida manatees and riverine water temperatures from southwest Florida 2002-2015: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9QT5VC1.

Summary

These data represent 1) GPS telemetry of 40 Florida manatees from 2002 through 2008, covering southwest Florida from Charlotte Harbor to Florida Bay, and 2) water temperature readings from 10 riverine sites in the Everglades region of southwest Florida using Onset dataloggers from 2008 through 2015.

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water_temperature.csv 6.6 MB text/csv
manatee_telemetry.csv 11.84 MB text/csv

Purpose

Data were obtained to better understand how variation in thermal refuge quality can influence behavioral thermoregulation in the Florida manatee.

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  • USGS Data Release Products
  • USGS Wetland and Aquatic Research Center

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DOI https://www.sciencebase.gov/vocab/category/item/identifier doi:10.5066/P9QT5VC1

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