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Escalation of threats to marine turtles [PDF]

Oryx, 1992
Many, if not all, marine turtle populations world-wide have become seriously depleted by the impact of numerous factors over the years. Populations of marine turtles are now classified as endangered or threatened. National and international legislation designed to protect sea turtles has been unsuccessful and, despite evergrowing interest, there is ...
Judith Hutchinson, Mark Simmonds
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A giant chelonioid turtle from the late Cretaceous of Morocco with a suction feeding apparatus unique among tetrapods.

PLoS ONE, 2013
BackgroundSecondary adaptation to aquatic life occurred independently in several amniote lineages, including reptiles during the Mesozoic and mammals during the Cenozoic.
Nathalie Bardet, Nour-Eddine Jalil, France de Lapparent de Broin, Damien Germain, Olivier Lambert, Mbarek Amaghzaz   +5 more
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Multidecadal underwater surveys reveal declines in marine turtles

Conservation Science and Practice
Marine turtles are a group of imperiled marine megafauna particularly vulnerable to anthropogenic stressors. Most long‐term studies of marine turtles are based on nesting surveys which focus on numbers of eggs, hatchlings, and nesting females.
Julia Saltzman, Alex R. Hearn, Mariana M. P. B. Fuentes, Todd Steiner, Randall Arauz, Catherine Macdonald, Maike Heidemeyer, Easton R. White   +7 more
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Climate change and marine turtles [PDF]

Endangered Species Research, 2009
Marine turtles occupy a wide range of terrestrial and marine habitats, and many aspects of their life history have been demonstrated to be closely tied to climatic variables such as ambient temperature and storminess. As a group, therefore, marine turtles may be good indicators of climate change effects on coastal and marine habitats. Despite the small
LA Hawkes, AC Broderick, MH Godfrey, BJ Godley   +3 more
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Updated take estimates of marine turtles in the Guajira Peninsula, Venezuela

Marine and Fishery Sciences
The Guajira Peninsula is one of the most important foraging grounds areas for marine turtles in Venezuela. There, five species converging: the green turtle, hawksbill, loggerhead, leatherback, and olive ridley.
Royner Carrasquero-Labarca, Matthew Ware, Jordano Palmar, Daniela Rojas-Cañizales, Héctor Barrios-Garrido   +4 more
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Prionochelys matutina Zangerl, 1953 (Testudines: Pan-Cheloniidae) from the Late Cretaceous of the United States and the evolution of epithecal ossifications in marine turtles [PDF]

PeerJ, 2018
Background Many neritic to nearshore species of marine adapted turtle from the Late Cretaceous of North America are thought to represent the stem lineage of Cheloniidae but due to fragmentary holotypes, low total specimen counts, and resultantly ...
Andrew D. Gentry
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Key issues in assessing threats to sea turtles: knowledge gaps and future directions

Endangered Species Research, 2023
Sea turtles are an iconic group of marine megafauna that have been exposed to multiple anthropogenic threats across their different life stages, especially in the past decades.
MMPB Fuentes, E McMichael, CY Kot, I Silver-Gorges, BP Wallace, BJ Godley, AML Brooks, SA Ceriani, AA Cortés-Gómez, TM Dawson, KL Dodge, M Flint, MP Jensen, LM Komoroske, S Kophamel, MD Lettrich, CA Long, SE Nelms, AR Patrício, NJ Robinson, JA Seminoff, M Ware, ER Whitman, D Chevallier, CE Clyde-Brockway, SA Korgaonkar, A Mancini, J Mello-Fonseca, JR Monsinjon, I Neves-Ferreira, AA Ortega, SH Patel, JB Pfaller, MD Ramirez, C Raposo, CE Smith, FA Abreu-Grobois, GC Hays   +37 more
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Development of a Humane Slaughter Device for Green Turtles for Use by Traditional Owners in the Torres Strait Islands, Australia. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2017
Marine turtles are caught and slaughtered for consumption as part of traditional indigenous community harvest in Australia as well as in many countries in which marine turtles can be found.
Mark Flint, Paul C Mills, Frank Loban, Tristan Simpson, Stan Lui, Ronald Fujii, Don Whap, Jaylene B Flint, Helen Owen   +8 more
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Satellite Tracking of Post-nesting Green Sea Turtles (Chelonia mydas) From Ras Baridi, Red Sea

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021
Identifying migratory pathways and linking nesting sites to foraging areas is essential for effective conservation management of migratory species, such as marine turtles. Post-nesting marine turtles disperse from their nesting sites to multiple foraging
Ahmed M. Al-Mansi, Anas Z. Sambas, Baleegh A. Abukaboos, Ahmed H. Al Zahrani, Ahmed S. Abdulaziz, Ali A. Almasabi, Raed S. Alkreda, Jeff Miller   +7 more
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Marine Turtle Newsletter

The Canadian Field-Naturalist, 2007
(Uploaded by Plazi from the Biodiversity Heritage Library) No abstract provided.
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