Dugongs and turtles are starving to death in Queensland seas – and La Niña’s floods are to blame

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news: 4 news outlets
policy: 1 policy source
twitter: 32 X users

facebook: 2 Facebook pages
reddit: 1 Redditor
podcasts: 1 podcast

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Article details
Title	Dugongs and turtles are starving to death in Queensland seas – and La Niña’s floods are to blame
Published by	The Conversation
DOI	10.64628/aa.pexphu9cu
Authors	Townsend, Kathy
Abstract	Floodwater carries dense clouds of sediment, choking the lush seagrass meadows on which these gentle grazers rely.

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country	Count	As %
Australia	11	34%
Curaçao	1	3%
Canada	1	3%
Korea, Democratic People's Republic of	1	3%
United Kingdom	1	3%
France	1	3%
Unknown	16	50%

Demographic breakdown

Type
Type	Count	As %
Members of the public	27	84%
Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors)	2	6%
Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals)	2	6%
Scientists	1	3%

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 60. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 20 May 2026.

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#886,447

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#100,275

of 210,621 outputs

Altmetric has tracked 34,160,352 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 97th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.

So far Altmetric has tracked 210,621 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 98.7. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 52% of its peers.