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Western Australian Loggerheads - Gnaraloo Station 2015-2016
Citation
Aub Strydom and Karen Hattingh, 2016. Western Australian Loggerheads - Gnaraloo Station 2015-2016. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1344) on yyyy-mm-dd originated from Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool (STAT; http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/index.shtml?project_id=1149). https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/5592
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Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, more Availability:
 This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Notes: Only data aggregated per 1-degree cell are available through OBIS. For access to additional data, the provider needs to be contacted.
Description
Gnaraloo Loggerhead Turtle Satellite Tagging Gnaraloo Station is a working pastoral station and wilderness tourism business located in a remote part of mainland Western Australia approximately 1,100 km north of Perth. The station abuts 65 km of pristine coastline at the southern end of the Ningaloo Reef and Ningaloo Marine Park. The beaches at Gnaraloo Station provide nesting habitat for predominantly loggerhead (Caretta caretta), some green (Chelonia mydas) and possibly hawksbill (Eretmochelys imbricata) turtles generally from November to March each year. The Gnaraloo Turtle Conservation Program (GTCP) (www.gnaraloo.com/conservation www.gnaraloo.org Facebook) has conducted scientific monitoring of turtle activity at rookeries on the Gnaraloo coastline since 2008. more The nesting range of loggerhead turtles in Western Australia extends from Dirk Hartog Island in the south to the Muiron Islands in the north, with important rookeries in-between including Gnaraloo Bay, Gnaraloo Cape Farquhar, Janes Bay and Bungelup in the Ningaloo Marine Park. With loggerhead turtles also being satellite tagged at Dirk Hartog Island and South Muiron Island during the season 2015/16 (1 July 2015 – 30 June 2016), the satellite tagging at Gnaraloo by the GTCP forms part of a broader co-ordinated program to understand inter-nesting movements, post-nesting migrations, and identify foraging grounds and potential threats across the turtles' entire nesting range in Western Australia. Supplemental information: Visit STAT's project page for additional information. This dataset is a summarized representation of the telemetry locations aggregated per species per 1-degree cell. Scope Themes: Biology > Reptiles Keywords: Marine/Coastal, ISW, Australia, North west, Caretta caretta (Linnaeus, 1758) Geographical coverage ISW, Australia, North west [Marine Regions] Temporal coverage
6 December 2015 - 11 December 2016 Taxonomic coverage
Caretta caretta (Linnaeus, 1758) [WoRMS]
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Occurrence of biota Contributors
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Published in: OBIS-SEAMAP: Spatial Ecological Analysis of Megavertebrate Populations, more Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research: field survey
Metadatarecord created: 2017-01-27
Information last updated: 2017-01-27
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