Name: Revealing migratory behaviour of South African leatherback turtles
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Original provider: Nathan J. Robinson, The Leatherback Trust Dataset credits: Nathan J. Robinson, Cape Eleuthera Institute Abstract: The data were collected from nesting leatherback turtles (Dermochelys coriacea) that tracked via satellite transmitters from the iSimangaliso Wetland Park, South Africa.

Citation

Robinson, N. 2020. Revealing migratory behaviour of South African leatherback turtles. Version 1.0.0. Dataset published in OBIS-SEAMAP. https://doi.org/10.82144/cf4235bc.

Published

October 08, 2025 at 11:42

First registration

April 09, 2021 at 18:41

License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC) 4.0 License

URL

http://ipt.env.duke.edu/resource?r=zd_1809

Archive

https://ipt.env.duke.edu/archive.do?r=zd_1809

Contacts

Nathan Robinson
Fundacion Oceanografic

OBIS-SEAMAP
Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Duke University

1,841

total submitted occurrences

1,841

accepted occurrences

taxa

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
maximumDepthInMeters	1,841		100.0%
minimumDepthInMeters	1,841		100.0%

Quality flags

The OBIS data quality flags are documented at https://github.com/iobis/obis-qc.

Flag	Dropped	Records
NO_DEPTH		1,841	100.0%
ON_LAND		49	2.7%

Revealing migratory behaviour of South African leatherback turtles

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data