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A Systematic Review of Population Monitoring Studies of Sea Turtles and Its Application to Conservation

Diversity
Sea turtles are keystone species in marine environments due to their essential role as seagrass grazers and population regulation of jellyfish and sponges in coral reefs. However, due to their predominant presence in coastal areas, sea turtle populations
Haley Hendrix, Sílvia Pérez-Espona
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Hawksbill sea turtles: can phylogenetics inform harvesting? [PDF]

Molecular Ecology, 2007
MATTHEW H. GODFREY, GRAHAME J. W. WEBB, S. CHARLIE MANOLIS, N. MROSOVSKY   +3 more
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In-water assessments of sea turtles at Glover’s Reef Atoll, Belize

Endangered Species Research, 2016
The decline of sea turtle populations in the Caribbean has led to intensive recovery efforts. In Belizean waters, hawksbill turtles are seemingly making a comeback.
Strindberg, S, Coleman, RA, Burns Perez, VR, Campbell, CL, Majil, I, Gibson, J   +5 more
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Sea turtle nesting in the Ten Thousand Islands of Florida [PDF]

, 1997
Loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) nest in numerous substrate and beach types within the Ten Thousand Islands (TTl) of southwest Florida. Nesting beach selection was analyzed on 12 islands within this archipelago.
Garmestani, Ahjond S., Percival, H. Franklin, Portier, Kenneth M., Rice, Kenneth G.   +3 more
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Vanishing turtle [PDF]

, 1977
Of the four commonly exploited sea turtles of our east coast, namely, Olive Ridley (Lipidochelys olivacea), Green Turtle (Chelonia mydas), Hawksbill (Eretmochelys imbricata) and Leatherback (Dermochelys coriaced), the olive ridleys and the green
CMFRI, Kochi
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Marine Turtle Conservation on the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua [PDF]

, 1997
The purpose of this initial phase was to expand our previous work on marine turtles on the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua. This was done through the establishment of a collaborative program with the Miskitu Indians to reduce the uncontrolled take of ...
Campbell, Cathi, Guillette, Louis J., Lagueux, Cynthia J.   +2 more
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Presence of fibropapillomatosis in green turtles Chelonia mydas at Príncipe Island in the Gulf of Guinea [PDF]

, 2009
Fibropapillomatosis is a transmissible and life threatening disease associated with one or more herpesviruses that are afflicting sea turtles worldwide (Herbst 1994). First documented on green turtles Chelonia mydas (Quackenbush et al.
Loureiro, Nuno de Santos, Matos, Damião
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Nesting female hawksbill sea turtles trending smaller in the western Indian Ocean

Endangered Species Research
Decreasing body size in nesting sea turtles has been documented globally in recent decades and attributed to a combination of environmental, ecological, and demographic changes, along with concerns about potential negative consequences for reproductive output.
S Evans, MJ Schulze, M Brown, JA Mortimer   +3 more
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Second opinion NuStar terminal expansion [PDF]

In this report a second opinion is developed for the Environmental Impact Assessment NuStar terminal expansion (at St. Eustatius). Only the marine ecology part of the EIA report is evaluated focusing on the impacts reported for marine reserves, reef- and
Debrot, A.O., Klok, T.C., Meesters, H.W.G., Slijkerman, D.M.E., Stapel, J.   +4 more
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Maryland Turtles [PDF]

, 1961
Since McCauley's 1945 publication, now out of print, on the "Turtles of Maryland," little has appeared on this interesting component of Maryland's vertebrate fauna.
Schwartz, Frank J.
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