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Sea Turtle Identification and Viewing Guidelines

EDIS, 2006
WEC-209, a 4-page illustrated fact sheet by Lindsay Nester and William M. Giuliano, provides instruction in how to appropriately view threatened and endangered sea turtles nesting and hatching; how to deal with stranded, injured, or dead turtles; and ...
Lindsay Nester, William M. Giuliano
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Charting multidisciplinary research and action priorities towards the conservation and sustainable management of sea turtles in the Pacific ocean : a focus on Malaysia [PDF]

Conservation, Turtle culture, Malaysia,
Ahmed, M., Basiron, M.N., Ho, S.C., Lau, M.M., Lbrahim, K., Liew, H.C., Sharma, D.S.K. (ed.), Wagiman, S., Yeo, B.H.   +8 more
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Maternal transfer of trace elements in leatherback turtles (Dermochelys coriacea) of French Guiana [PDF]

, 2008
In sea turtles, parental investment is limited to the nutrients and energy invested in eggs that will support embryonic development. Leatherback females have the largest clutches with the biggest eggs of the sea turtles and the highest reproductive ...
Das, Krishna, Girondot, Marc, Guirlet, Elodie   +2 more
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Pay up or die: Tradeoffs between costly telomere maintenance, somatic growth and body condition in embryonic and adult sand lizards

Functional Ecology, Volume 39, Issue 11, Page 3284-3298, November 2025.
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog. Abstract Current knowledge about telomere biology relies to a very high degree on results from research on endotherms. This would not be problematic if organisms shared the same mechanisms regulating telomere length (TL) but this is not necessarily the case; for example, most ...
Mats Olsson, Emily Miller, Nicky Rollings, Erik Wapstra   +3 more
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Predicting Effort and Protected Species Bycatch Under an Effort Limit or Take Caps [PDF]

Many production processes feature joint production of a desirable output with an undesirable byproduct. Producers and consumers of the desirable output mutually benefit at the expense of non-consumers, who bear external damage costs imposed by production
Stohs, Stephen M.
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Potential of dynamic ocean management strategies for western Pacific leatherback sea turtle bycatch mitigation in New Zealand

Frontiers in Marine Science
Western Pacific leatherback sea turtles (Dermochelys coriacea) are a priority bycatch mitigation concern due to the projected extinction of the population before the end of the 21st century.
Zachary A. Siders, Campbell Murray, Charity Puloka, Shelton Harley, Clinton Duffy, Christopher A. Long, Robert N. M. Ahrens, T. Todd Jones   +7 more
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Contextualising the Last Survivors: Population Structure of Marine Turtles in the Dominican Republic.

PLoS ONE, 2013
Nesting by three species of marine turtles persists in the Dominican Republic, despite historic threats and long-term population decline. We conducted a genetic survey of marine turtles in the Dominican Republic in order to link them with other rookeries
Carlos Carreras, Brendan J Godley, Yolanda M León, Lucy A Hawkes, Ohiana Revuelta, Juan A Raga, Jesús Tomás   +6 more
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NMFS / Interagency Working Group Evaluation of CITES Criteria and Guidelines. [PDF]

, 2002
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: At present, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) criteria used to assess whether a population qualifies for inclusion in the CITES Appendices relate to (A) size of the population,
Bruckner, Andy W., Daves, Nancy K., Field, John D., Hunter, John R., Kohler, Nancy E., Kope, Robert G., Lieberman, Susan S., Mace, Pamela M., Miller, Margaret W., Orr, James W., Otto, Robert S., Smith, Tim D., Thompson, Nancy B.   +12 more
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Hydrodynamic role of longitudinal dorsal ridges in a leatherback turtle swimming [PDF]

, 2016
Leatherback sea turtles (Dermochelys coriacea) are known to have a superior diving ability and be highly adapted to pelagic swimming. They have five longitudinal ridges on their carapace.
Bang, Kyeongtae, Choi, Haecheon, Kim, Jooha, Lee, Sang-Im   +3 more
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A fossil leatherback sea turtle from the Bartonian of Kazakhstan

Proceedings of the Zoological Institute RAS
The article describes fossil material of a leatherback sea turtle Dermochelyidae indet. from the Bayurbas and Sandy localities of the Shorym Formation (Bartonian, Middle Eocene) of the Mangyshlak Peninsula, Kazakhstan. The material is represented by cranial remains of one individual (Bayurbas) and an epithecal plate of the shell (Sandy). Dermochelyidae
E.A. Zvonok, A.V. Panteleev, I.G. Danilov   +2 more
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