Name: Tracking of hawksbill and green turtles on the North-west Shelf, Western Australia (2017-2018)
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A combination deployment of GPS Fastloc and Argos transmitters on 20 nesting female green turtles on Legendre Island, Rosemary Island and Middle Island (below Barrow Island) to understand their movements during the inter-nesting period, the migration to foraging grounds and the areas they use for foraging. Hawksbill turtle data will be included once it is out of emabargo. Part of project titled 'Understanding the distribution and important areas for hawksbill and green turtles on the NW Shelf & overlap with industrial activities, Pilbara region, North-west Shelf, Western Australia' Data sourced from Zoatrack project 534 https://zoatrack.org/projects/534/ on 2021-06-01

Citation

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Published

June 07, 2022 at 05:54

First registration

July 01, 2021 at 06:04

License

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

URL

https://www.marine.csiro.au/ipt/resource?r=zoatrack_534_526_turtles

Archive

https://www.marine.csiro.au/ipt/archive.do?r=zoatrack_534_526_turtles

Contacts

Michele Thum
Australian Institute of Marine Science

OBIS Australia Node manager
CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure Data Centre

35,193

total submitted occurrences

35,193

accepted occurrences

32,654

measurements and facts

taxa

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

No missing or invalid fields.

Quality flags

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

Flag	Dropped	Records
ON_LAND		3,846	10.9%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH		56	0.2%

Tracking of hawksbill and green turtles on the North-west Shelf, Western Australia (2017-2018)

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data