Description
Original provider:
Aubrey Strydom
Dataset credits:
Data provider
Aubrey Strydom
Originating data center
Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool (STAT)
Project partner
Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife
Marine Science Program
Muiron Islands Marine Management Area
Aubrey Strydom
Abstract:
South Muiron Island Loggerhead Turtle Tagging
The Muiron Islands are located off the North West Cape of Western Australia, approximately 1200 km north of Perth. The Island group consists of South and North Muiron islands, which are separated by a deep-water channel, and Sunday Island which is smaller and lies further east.
The islands are protected for their diverse marine environment and important seabird and turtle nesting areas through the Muiron Islands Marine Management Area, Western Australia’s first marine management area, which was gazetted on 30 November 2004.
Close by lies the Ningaloo Reef, Australia’s largest fringing coral reef, boasting spectacular coral formations, abundant fishes and species with special conservation significance such as turtles, whale sharks, dugongs, whales and dolphins. Ningaloo Marine Park was first gazetted in 1987 to recognise and protect this diverse biological hotspot with amendments made to park boundaries on 30 November 2004 to encompass the whole of the Ningaloo Reef. The Department of Parks and Wildlife is the primary manager of these reserves.
The Muiron islands and the beaches of the Ningaloo coast provide an important habitat and relatively undisturbed nesting area for the loggerhead (Caretta caretta), green (Chelonia mydas) and hawksbill (Eretmochelys imbricata) turtles between November and March each year. Flatback and leatherback turtles have also been recorded foraging occasionally along the Ningaloo coast.
In recognition of these important and diverse reserves, the surrounding area was bestowed the highest level of international recognition with its inscription on the World Heritage List for its natural beauty and biological diversity in June 2011. The Ningaloo World Heritage Area encompasses 604,500ha in total, including the Muiron Islands Marine Management Area, Ningaloo Marine Park, Cape Range National Park, the Learmonth Air Weapons Range and Bundegi and Jurabi Coastal Parks.
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, Cape Farquhar, Janes Bay and Bungelup in the Ningaloo Marine Park. Satellite tagging at the Muiron Islands is part of a broader coordinated program in the 2015/16 season to understand inter-nesting movements, post-nesting migration, identify foraging grounds and potential threats across their entire nesting range in Western Australia with loggerhead turtles also tagged at Dirk Hartog Island and Gnaraloo.
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 72 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:
Aubrey Strydom . 2021. Western Australian Loggerheads - South Muiron Is 2015-2016. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1368) on yyyy-mm-dd originated from Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool (STAT; http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/index.shtml?project_id=1176).
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: 4b18a2dc-018e-4072-8b68-e47e56e00300. 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/1368 UTF-8 Interactive map |
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FGDC Metadata | http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1368/xml UTF-8 XML |
STAT Project Page | http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/index.shtml?project_id=1176 UTF-8 Original web site |
Contacts
- Metadata Provider ●
- Distributor
Geographic Coverage
Oceans
Bounding Coordinates | South West [-21.924, 114.248], North East [-9.329, 143.748] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
Scientific names are based on the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
Species | Caretta caretta (Loggerhead Sea Turtle) |
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Temporal Coverage
Start Date / End Date | 2016-01-13 / 2016-09-15 |
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Project Data
No Description available
Title | Western Australian Loggerheads - South Muiron Is 2015-2016 (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_1368 |
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Collection Identifier | zd_1368 |
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_1368_1deg |