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A global assessment of microplastic abundance and characteristics on marine turtle nesting beaches

Marine Pollution Bulletin
Sandy coastal beaches are an important nesting habitat for marine turtles and a known sink for plastic pollution. Existing methodologies for monitoring the spatiotemporal patterns of abundance and composition of plastic are, however, disparate.
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Marine Turtle Presence in the Traditional Pharmacopoeia, Cosmovision, and Beliefs of Wayuú Indigenous People

Chelonian Conservation and Biology, 2018
. Marine turtles are considered by people of several cultures to be a gift from God. This belief often leads to the use of these reptiles in the traditional and belief systems among aboriginal peoples. Certainly this is the case among Wayuú people, who
Hector Barrios-Garrido, J. Palmar, N. Wildermann, Daniela Rojas-Can˜ Izales, A. Diedrich, M. Hamann   +5 more
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First evidence of polychaete intermediate hosts for Neospirorchis spp. marine turtle blood flukes (Trematoda: Spirorchiidae).

International Journal of Parasitology, 2018
Life cycles of spirorchiids that infect the vascular system of turtles are poorly understood. Few life cycles of these blood flukes have been elucidated and all intermediate hosts reported are gastropods (Mollusca), regardless of whether the definitive ...
I. de Buron, B. Colon, Sasha V. Siegel, Jenna Oberstaller, Andrea Rivero, D. Kyle   +5 more
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Untangling the impacts of nets in the southeastern Pacific: Rapid assessment of marine turtle bycatch to set conservation priorities in small-scale fisheries

Fisheries Research, 2018
Bycatch of marine megafauna by small-scale fisheries is of growing global concern. The southeastern Pacific sustains extensive fisheries that are important sources of food and employment for millions of people.
J. Alfaro‐Shigueto, Jeffrey C. Mangel, Jodie J. Darquea, Miguel Donoso, A. Baquero, Philip D. Doherty, B. Godley   +6 more
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Marine Turtles

2004
Fact sheet on endangered or threatened species in New Jersey, containing identification, habitat, and status and conservation information.
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Saving sea turtles: the evolution of the IUCN Marine Turtle Group

Endeavour, 2005
When Peter Scott became chairman of the Survival Service Commission of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) in 1963, he invited Archie Carr to chair the Marine Turtle Group (MTG). A leading authority on the ecology and conservation of sea turtles, Carr believed that the MTG could be the first international
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Two decades of monitoring in marine debris ingestion in loggerhead sea turtle, Caretta caretta, from the western Mediterranean.

Environmental Pollution, 2019
Anthropogenic marine debris is one of the major worldwide threats to marine ecosystems. The EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) has established a protocol for data collection on marine debris from the gut contents of the loggerhead sea turtle ...
F. Domènech, Francisco Javier Aznar, J. Raga, Jesús Tomás   +3 more
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Marine Turtles of the Red Sea

2015
Marine turtles are long-lived reptiles that appeared on Earth in the late Triassic. There are seven extant species worldwide, five of which can be found in the Red Sea: the green turtle, the hawksbill turtle, the loggerhead turtle, the olive ridley turtle and the leatherback turtle.
Agnese Mancini, Islam Elsadek, Magdy A. N. El-Alwany   +2 more
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Epizoan Communities on Marine Turtles

Marine Ecology, 1985
Abstract. Marine turtles harbour a variety of epizoa, some of which are specific to these hosts, but shelled gastropod and bivalve mollusks were previously unrecorded on marine turtles. Thousands of turtles of five species from all major oceans were examined.
J. Frazier, D. Margarttoulis, K. Muldoon, C. W. Potter, J. Rosewater, C. Ruckdeschel, S. Salas   +6 more
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Comparing quantity of marine debris to loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) nesting and non-nesting emergence activity on Jekyll Island, Georgia, USA.

Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2019
Marine debris is defined as any manmade item, commonly plastics, which ends up in the ocean regardless of the source. Debris found along coastlines can cause harm or even death to nesting and hatchling sea turtles through ingestion, entrapment, or ...
J. Martin, J. Jambeck, Breanna L Ondich, T. Norton   +3 more
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