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Sunshine Coast Council Turtle Tracking
Citation
Contact: Limpus, Colin
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Description
Matilda is a female Loggerhead turtle who was tagged and fitted with a tracker when she came up on Shelly Beach for what was probably her third nest of the season.

The Matilda project is a partnership between:

  • TurtleCare Sunshine Coast
  • Sunshine Coast Regional Council
  • Queensland's Department of Environment and Resource Management
Dataset credit = GHD, Xstrata and DERM nesting flatback monitoring.
Scope
Themes:
Biology > Reptiles
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, I, Pacific, Caretta caretta (Linnaeus, 1758)
Geographical coverage
I, Pacific [Marine Regions]
Temporal coverage
6 January 2012 - 1 November 2012
Taxonomic coverage
Caretta caretta (Linnaeus, 1758) [WoRMS]
Contributors
The University of Queensland (UQ), more, data owner
Limpus, Colin
Queensland Government; Department of Natural Resources and Mines (DERM), more, data owner
Related datasets
Published in:
OBIS-SEAMAP: Spatial Ecological Analysis of Megavertebrate Populations, more
URLs
Dataset information:
Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Monitoring: field survey
Metadatarecord created: 2012-11-14
Information last updated: 2012-11-14
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