Ningaloo Outlook turtle tracking of Green turtles (Chelonia mydas), Western Australia (2018-present)
Citation
Vanderklift M (2024). Ningaloo Outlook turtle tracking of Green turtles (Chelonia mydas), Western Australia (2018-present). Version 1.10. CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure (NCMI) Information and Data Centre (IDC). Occurrence dataset. https://www.marine.csiro.au/ipt/resource?r=ningaloo_outlook_turtle_tracking&v=1.10 https://doi.org/10.15468/557hrv accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-08-22.Description
Ningaloo provides important feeding grounds and nesting beaches for a number of marine turtle species, especially green Chelonia mydas and loggerhead Caretta caretta turtles. Green turtles are abundant in the shallow lagoons, where they arrive as juveniles after spending perhaps a decade in the open ocean.
This datasets is tracking data of eight green turtles from the Ningaloo Outlook Turtle Viewer (http://hdl.handle.net/102.100.100/385081?index=1) accessed on 2022-11-14
Taxonomic Coverages
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Chelonia mydascommon name: Green turtle rank: species
Geographic Coverages
Ningaloo Reef
Bibliographic Citations
Contacts
Mat Vanderkliftoriginator
position: Principal Investigator
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere
AU
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5170-7546
Mat Vanderklift
metadata author
position: Principal Investigator
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere
AU
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5170-7546
OBIS Australia Node manager
publisher
position: OBIS Australia Data Manager
CSIRO National Collections and Marine Infrastructure Data Centre
Castray Esplande
Hobart
7000
Tasmania
AU
email: obisau@csiro.au
homepage: http://www.obis.org.au
Mat Vanderklift
administrative point of contact
position: Principal Investigator
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere
AU
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5170-7546
Dirk Slawinski
administrative point of contact
position: Principal Investigator
CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2358-446X