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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 +5 more
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Marine litter can shift sea turtle nests toward the shoreline
Oikos, Volume 2026, Issue 6, June 2026.Marine litter is an emerging threat to sea turtle rookeries, yet its effects on nesting behaviour remain poorly understood. In this study, we investigated how macro‐litter accumulation on beaches influences the spatial distribution of loggerhead turtle Caretta caretta nests on Boa Vista Island, Cabo Verde.
Diana Sousa‐Guedes +4 more
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BMC Ecology and EvolutionIt 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 +4 more
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Diversity and Distributions, Volume 32, Issue 6, June 2026.ABSTRACT Aims Understanding broad‐scale ecological responses to global change is essential for investigating and conserving biodiversity. Sea turtles, with their ancient evolutionary history and global distribution, serve as an ideal model for understanding these ecological responses.
Tong Liu +4 more
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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 +2 more
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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 +68 more
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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 +2 more
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Parasites & Vectors, 2020 Background The Spirorchiidae is a family of blood flukes parasitizing turtles. Spirorchiids may cause a wide range of inflammatory reactions in the vascular system of their host being frequently implicated with stranding and death of sea turtles ...
Mario Santoro +11 more
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Long-Term Climate Forcing in Loggerhead Sea Turtle Nesting
PLoS ONE, 2011 The long-term variability of marine turtle populations remains poorly understood, limiting science and management. Here we use basin-scale climate indices and regional surface temperatures to estimate loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) nesting at a variety of spatial and temporal scales.
Van Houtan, K. S., Halley, J. M.
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Unusual behaviour of an immature loggerhead turtle released in the Alboran Sea [PDF]
Animal Biodiversity and Conservation, 2010 A juvenile loggerhead turtle with buoyancy problems was captured in the Alboran Sea (Mediterranean Sea, south of Spain) and released 14 months later after healing.
Bellido, J. J. +5 more
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