
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Limpus, CJ 
A1  - Parmenter, CJ 
A1  - Baker, V 
A1  - Fleay, A 
T1  - The Crab Island Sea Turtle Rookery in the North-Eastern Gulf of Carpentaria
JF  - Wildlife Research
JO  - Wildl. Res.
Y1  - 1983
VL  - 10
IS  - 1
SP  - 173
EP  - 184
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UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/WR9830173 
N2  - Crab I. in north Queensland supports a large all-year nesting population of Chelonia depressa and occasional nesting by Eretmochelys imbricata and Lepidochelys olivacea. Measurements of nesting turtles, eggs, nests, hatchlings are summarized. A preliminary model of C. depressa egg and hatchling mortality gave values for the proportion of eggs producing hatchlings into the sea ranging from 48% to 89% in different months. The nesting distribution of C. depressa is reviewed and Crab I. identified as its most significant breeding beach. 
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