Dataset

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

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

Nathan Robinson
Fundacion Oceanografic

1,841
occurrence records
1
taxa
1
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%

Measurement types

DNA derived data