Description
Original provider:
Queens Beach Action Group
Dataset credits:
Data provider
Apudthama flatback turtle project
Originating data center
Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool (STAT)
Project partner
The project is supported by Queens Beach Action Group, North Queensland Bulk Ports Corporation, Gudjuda Rangers, Queensland Parks & Wildlife, Juru Traditional Owners, Bowen Primary School, and James Cook University.
Project sponsor or sponsor description
North Queensland Bulk Ports is sponsoring an innovative turtle monitoring program through the Queens Beach Action Group (QBAG) in Bowen. This sponsorship will allow the behaviour of turtles to be monitored via satellite from a transponder attached to a turtle.
Abstract:
Bowen, Queensland Australia is a well known feeding area for marine turtles. Six of the world's seven species of marine turtles are found off the coast of North Queensland. Despite this, there is a lack of community awareness and understanding of the issues impacting on these great mariners. This project aims to demonstrate, through a satellite tracking device what the day-to-day life is for a male green turtle in the lead up to the breeding season.
Walnut is an adult male green turtle who weighs ~150kg and was found feeding in Edgcumbe Bay. Walnut had his transmitter attached and was released into Edgecumbe Bay on the 23rd September 2013.
September in Queensland is the lead-up to the approaching nesting season and a time of the year when male green turtles are looking for a partner. This study hopes to find out what sort of an area a male turtle will cover looking for females who are also preparing to breed.
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.
Data Records
The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 2 records.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Versions
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Bell I. 2021. Tracking green turtles in Edgecumbe Bay. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1008) on yyyy-mm-dd originated from Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool (STAT; http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/index.shtml?project_id=922).
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is OBIS-SEAMAP. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 2ddc4107-1430-4f93-953e-14756a38997c. OBIS-SEAMAP publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Ocean Biodiversity Information System.
Keywords
Occurrence; Observation; Occurrence
External data
The resource data is also available in other formats
OBIS-SEAMAP Dataset Page | http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1008 UTF-8 Interactive map |
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FGDC Metadata | http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1008/xml UTF-8 XML |
STAT Project Page | http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/index.shtml?project_id=922 UTF-8 Original web site |
Contacts
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Geographic Coverage
Oceans
Bounding Coordinates | South West [-20.104, 148.112], North East [-19.89, 148.416] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Scientific names are based on the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
Species | Chelonia mydas (Green Sea Turtle) |
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Temporal Coverage
Start Date / End Date | 2013-09-24 / 2014-02-06 |
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Project Data
No Description available
Title | Tracking green turtles in Edgecumbe Bay (aggregated per 1-degree cell) |
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Funding | NA |
The personnel involved in the project:
- Owner
Sampling Methods
NA
Study Extent | NA |
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Method step description:
- NA
Collection Data
Collection Name | zd_1008 |
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Collection Identifier | zd_1008 |
Parent Collection Identifier | OBIS-SEAMAP |
Additional Metadata
marine, harvested by iOBIS
Purpose | Not available |
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Alternative Identifiers | http://ipt.env.duke.edu/resource?r=zd_1008_1deg |