Overview The database was developed in support of an acoustic telemetry study being performed on diamondback terrapins (Malaclemys terrapin terrapin) inhabiting Wellfleet Harbor and environs, Wellfleet, MA. This is the northernmost population of this species, and it is listed as state-threatened under the Massachusetts Natural Heritage and Endangered Species Act. The study was performed in part to help assess the risk to individuals and the population that might be posed by a proposed dredging project in the federal and adjacent town anchorages of Wellfleet Harbor. Data were logged by an array of fixed station receivers distributed throughout the harbor and its subdrainages. Mobil, manual tracking was also performed [...]
Summary
Overview
The database was developed in support of an acoustic telemetry study being performed on diamondback
terrapins (Malaclemys terrapin terrapin) inhabiting Wellfleet Harbor and environs, Wellfleet, MA. This
is the northernmost population of this species, and it is listed as state-threatened under the Massachusetts
Natural Heritage and Endangered Species Act. The study was performed in part to help assess the risk to
individuals and the population that might be posed by a proposed dredging project in the federal and
adjacent town anchorages of Wellfleet Harbor. Data were logged by an array of fixed station receivers
distributed throughout the harbor and its subdrainages. Mobil, manual tracking was also performed and
locations and times logged. The database contains all data logged by the fixed receiver array, and by
mobile tracking. In addition there are data on receiver locations, tagging data (location, sex, size, etc.),
temperature associated with several fixed station receivers, and data on tag removal efforts. Fields of
The study was performed in part to help assess the risk to individuals and the population that might be posed by a proposed dredging project in the federal and adjacent town anchorages of Wellfleet Harbor.
