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Global Conservation Priorities for Marine Turtles [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2011
Where conservation resources are limited and conservation targets are diverse, robust yet flexible priority-setting frameworks are vital. Priority-setting is especially important for geographically widespread species with distinct populations subject to multiple threats that operate on different spatial and temporal scales.
Wallace, Bryan P., Dimatteo, Andrew D., Bolten, Alan B., Chaloupka, Milani Y., Hutchinson, Brian J., Abreu Grobois, F. Alberto, Mortimer, Jeanne A., Seminoff, Jeffrey A., Amorocho, Diego, Bjorndal, Karen A., Bourjea, Jérôme, Bowen, Brian W., Dueñas, Raquel, CASALE, PAOLO, Choudhury, B. C., Costa, Alice, Dutton, Peter H., Fallabrino, Alejandro, Finkbeiner, Elena M., Girard, Alexandre, Girondot, Marc, Hamann, Mark, Hurley, Brendan J., López Mendilaharsu, Milagros, Marcovaldi, Maria Angela, Musick, John A., Nel, Ronel, Pilcher, Nicolas J., Troëng, Sebastian, Witherington, Blair, Mast, Roderic B.   +30 more
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Plastic ingestion by freshwater turtles: a review and call to action

Scientific Reports, 2021
Plastic pollution, and especially plastic ingestion by animals, is a serious global issue. This problem is well documented in marine systems, but it is relatively understudied in freshwater systems.
Adam G. Clause, Aaron J. Celestian, Gregory B. Pauly   +2 more
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An assessment of marine turtle population status and conservation in Cambodia

Oryx, 2023
Cambodian waters historically supported significant nesting populations of marine turtles up to the early 20th century. However, although fishing and coastal development have intensified, marine turtle conservation has received little recent attention ...
Henry Duffy, Aylin McNamara, Berry Mulligan, Kate West, Phalla Leng, Rylida Vong, Kieran Murray, Sour Kim, Manjula Tiwari, Marianne Teoh   +9 more
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Island-finding ability of marine turtles [PDF]

Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences, 2003
Green turtles (Chelonia mydas) swim from foraging grounds along the Brazilian coast to Ascension Island to nest, over 2200 km distant in the middle of the equatorial Atlantic. To test the hypothesis that turtles use wind-borne cues to locate Ascension Island we found turtles that had just completed nesting and then moved three individuals 50 km ...
HAYS G. C, AKESSON S, BRODERICK A. C, GLEN F, GODLEY B. J, PAPI, FLORIANO, LUSCHI, PAOLO   +6 more
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Changes in dive patterns of leatherback turtles with sea surface temperature and potential foraging habitats

Ecosphere, 2021
Marine mesotherms are able to occupy broader thermal niches than ectotherms; however, this means they must thermoregulate according to diverse thermal conditions across the ocean.
Junichi Okuyama, Scott R. Benson, Peter H. Dutton, Jeffrey A. Seminoff   +3 more
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The effects of sea turtle and other marine megafauna consumption in northeastern Madagascar

Ecosystems and People, 2021
Sea turtles are essential to the health of marine ecosystems, yet nearly 90% are threatened with extinction. The unsustainable consumption of sea turtles contributes to their global decline.
Emily Rothamel, Be Jean Rodolph Rasolofoniaina, Cortni Borgerson   +2 more
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Estimates of marine turtle nesting populations in the south-west Indian Ocean indicate the importance of the Chagos Archipelago

Oryx, 2020
Global marine turtle population assessments highlight the importance of the south-west Indian Ocean region, despite data gaps for the Chagos Archipelago.
J. Mortimer, N. Esteban, A. Guzman, G. Hays   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A Global Analysis of Anthropogenic Development of Marine Turtle Nesting Beaches

Remote Sensing, 2020
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicts that sea levels will rise by up to 0.82 m in the next 100 years. In natural systems, coastlines would migrate landwards, but because most of the world’s human population occupies the coast ...
S. Biddiscombe, Elliott Smith, L. Hawkes
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Ocean highways in the Western Mediterranean: Which are the areas with increased exposure to maritime traffic for loggerhead turtles?

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022
Many marine megafauna taxa are tied to the sea surface for breathing which makes them vulnerable to vessel collisions. Sea turtles have developed efficient mechanisms to reduce surface time for breathing to a few seconds, but they can extend their ...
Eugenia Pasanisi, Marianna Chimienti, Monica Francesca Blasi, Fulvio Maffucci, Sandra Hochscheid   +4 more
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Mitochondrial DNA markers of loggerhead marine turtles (Caretta caretta) (Testudines: Cheloniidae) nesting at Kyparissia Bay, Greece, confirm the western Greece unit and regional structuring

Scientia Marina, 2014
Genetic markers have been widely used in marine turtles to assess population structuring and origin of individuals in common feeding grounds, which are key elements for understanding their ecology and for developing conservation strategies.
Carlos Carreras, ALan F. Rees, Annette C. Broderick, Brendan J. Godley, Dimitris Margaritoulis   +4 more
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