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Shifting Seas, Changing Diets: Evidence of Temporal Dietary Shifts in Marine Megafauna in Southern Brazil (2017–2023)

Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, Volume 36, Issue 5, May 2026.
ABSTRACT Understanding the dietary dynamics of marine megafauna is essential for interpreting ecological interactions and assessing environmental changes in marine ecosystems. We analysed temporal trends in the diets of eight megafaunal species, comprising marine mammals, seabirds, and sea turtles.
Joao Bosco Gusmao, Mario Roberto Castro Meira‐Filho, Camila Domit   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

High resolution data reveal fundamental steps and turns in animal movements

Ecological Monographs, Volume 96, Issue 2, May 2026.
Abstract Animal movement paths display substantial complexity and variability, promoting efforts to identify universal rules and models that best describe them. Using high‐resolution (≥10 Hz) movement from 43 vertebrate species spanning diverse taxa, body sizes, and lifestyles, we show that paths are universally composed of straight‐line steps ...
Richard M. Gunner, Rory P. Wilson, Miguel Lurgi, Luca Börger, James Redcliffe, Emily L. C. Shepard, Mark D. Holton, Margaret C. Crofoot, Abdulaziz Alagaili, Samantha Andrzejaczek, Daniel Ariano‐Sánchez, Thomas Barbedette‐Gerard, Nigel C. Bennett, Alice Bernard, Rowan Brown, Nik Cole, Scott Creel, Ariovaldo P. Cruz‐Neto, Agustina di Virgilio, Carlos M. Duarte, Christophe Eizaguirre, Kyle H. Elliott, Monika Faltusova, Mathieu Garel, Natasha Gillies, Adrian C. Gleiss, Aoife Göppert, David Grémillet, Sophie de Grissac, Tim Guilford, Maxime Hoareau, Mark Jessopp, Agustina Gómez‐Laich, Milos Jezek, Sergio A. Lambertucci, Pascal Marchand, Nikki Marks, Andréia Martins, Mark Meekan, Yuichi Mizutani, Rasmus M. Mortensen, Bradley M. Norman, Josue Ortega, Oliver Padget, Michael Painter, Aurore Ponchon, Pascal Provost, Aurélien Prudor, Flavio Quintana, Stefanie Reinhardt, Samantha D. Reynolds, Frank Rosell, Carlos R. Ruiz‐Miranda, Peter G. Ryan, David M. Scantlebury, Stefan Schoombie, Rebecca Scott, Vaclav Silovsky, Jeroen Steenbeek, Vikash Tatayah, Carole Toïgo, Lucia Torrez, Fred Tremblay, Joshua P. Twining, Ken Yoda, Henri Weimerskirch, Shannon Whelan, Juan M. Morales, Jonathan R. Potts   +68 more
wiley   +1 more source

Trends in fishery-dependent captures of sea turtles in a western North Atlantic foraging region

Endangered Species Research, 2018
Accurate assessments of sea turtle populations are essential for determining population trends and formulating conservation plans for the recovery of these imperiled species.
Braun McNeill, J, Goodman Hall, A, Richards, PM   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Movements of marine and estuarine turtles during Hurricane Michael

Scientific Reports, 2021
Natural disturbances are an important driver of population dynamics. Because it is difficult to observe wildlife during these events, our understanding of the strategies that species use to survive these disturbances is limited.
Margaret M. Lamont, Darren Johnson, Daniel J. Catizone   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Dog attacks on wild desert tortoises: A risk model

The Journal of Wildlife Management, Volume 90, Issue 4, May 2026.
Domestic dogs attack and severely injure wild desert tortoises at the urban and ex‐urban interface with deserts. Severe trauma to tortoises increased 4 times to shell and limbs and 16.5 times to the gular horn over the decades between the 1970s and 2000s. Tortoises were at exponential risk of severe trauma when living within 12 km of settlements, towns,
Andrea S. Carlson, Kristin H. Berry, Jeremy S. Mack   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Characterization of oral and cloacal microbial communities of wild and rehabilitated loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta)

Animal Microbiome, 2021
Background Microbial communities of wild animals are being increasingly investigated to provide information about the hosts’ biology and promote conservation.
Klara Filek, Adriana Trotta, Romana Gračan, Antonio Di Bello, Marialaura Corrente, Sunčica Bosak   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Hawksbill turtles in Korean waters: Occurrence records, tracking, and conservation considerations

Conservation Science and Practice, Volume 8, Issue 5, May 2026.
In Korean waters, diverse efforts, including rescue, rehabilitation, and post‐release satellite tracking, has been conducted to conserve and restore hawksbill turtles. Hawksbill turtles showed three movement patterns and a potential migratory corridor linking Jeju Island to Hainan Island, southern China.
Il‐Kook Park, Eunvit Cho, Min‐Seop Kim, Seunghyun Lee, Il‐Hun Kim   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Correlations between local geoclimatic variables and hatchling body size in the sea turtles Caretta caretta and Chelonia mydas

BMC Ecology and Evolution
It has been widely demonstrated that air and sand temperatures influence the anatomy of sea turtle hatchlings. We examined the impact of precipitation during the nesting season on the hatchling body size of loggerhead and green turtles from 37 beaches ...
Omar Rafael Regalado Fernández, Parima Parsi-Pour, John A. Nyakatura, Jeanette Wyneken, Ingmar Werneburg   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Hunter perceptions of a recreationally‐hunted invasive species during eradication from an island wildlife refuge

Conservation Science and Practice, Volume 8, Issue 5, May 2026.
We quantified recreationists perceptions of wild pigs during an eradication program at Blackbeard Island, Georgia, U.S., by distributing a survey to participants of the 2024 archery hunt. Hunters overwhelmingly supported wild pig eradication (73.0%) and were concerned about wild pig impacts on native species (98.1%), yet only half believed eradication ...
Travis E. Stoakley, Kelly H. Dunning, James C. Beasley   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

De novo transcriptome assembly of loggerhead sea turtle nesting of the Colombian Caribbean

Genomics Data, 2017
Loggerhead sea turtle Caretta caretta is widely distributed in the oceans of tropical and subtropical latitude. This turtle is an endangered species due to anthropic and natural factors that have decreased their population levels.
Javier Hernández-Fernández, Andrés Pinzón, Leonardo Mariño-Ramírez   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source