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Conservation interventions to reduce vessel strikes on sea turtles: A case study in Florida

, 2021
Sea turtles and boating activities often occur in shared waters. This is problematic because sea turtles are susceptible to vessel strikes since they spend significant portions of their lives in nearshore shallow water to breathe, reproduce, and feed ...
M. Fuentes   +3 more
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Temperature‐Dependent Sex Determination in Sea Turtles in the Context of Climate Change: Uncovering the Adaptive Significance

Bioessays, 2020
The adaptive significance of temperature‐dependent sex determination (TSD) in reptiles remains unknown decades after TSD was first identified in this group.
P. Santidrián Tomillo, J. Spotila
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Evidence of ingested plastics in stranded loggerhead sea turtles along the Greek coastline, East Mediterranean Sea.

Environmental Pollution, 2020
Plastic debris has become a major threat to the marine environment and wildlife. Sea turtles are particularly vulnerable, and are known to ingest plastic debris globally; however, information from Greek waters is still absent.
N. Digka   +7 more
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Ingestion of plastic marine litter by sea turtles in southern Brazil: abundance, characteristics and potential selectivity.

Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2019
The ingestion of plastic marine litter (PML) by sea turtles is widespread and concerning, and the five species that occur in the southwestern Atlantic - green, loggerhead, olive ridley, leatherback and hawksbill - are vulnerable to this pollution.
Milena Rizzi   +7 more
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Loggerhead sea turtles as sentinels in the western Mediterranean: antibiotic resistance and environment-related modifications of Gram-negative bacteria.

Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2019
Sea turtles possess relevant characteristics to serve as sentinel species for monitoring the health of marine ecosystems, which is currently threatened.
A. Pace   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Neurologic examination of sea turtles

Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, 1997
Objective To determine whether neurologic examination techniques established for use on dogs and cats could be adapted for use on sea turtles. Design Prospective controlled observational study. Animals 4 healthy Green Turtles (Chelonia mydas), 1 healthy Kemp's ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys kempi), and 6 Green Turtles suspected to have neurologic
C L, Chrisman   +6 more
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Faecal bacterial communities from Mediterranean loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta).

Environmental Microbiology Reports, 2018
The loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) is the most widespread sea turtle species in the Mediterranean Sea and a relevant pollution 'flagship species'. Here, we profiled the faecal microbiota from 29 C.
E. Biagi   +9 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Amphibious Hearing in Sea Turtles

2012
Despite increasing levels of anthropogenic noise throughout the oceans, we know very little about the hearing capabilities of sea turtles or how they might behaviorally and physiologically respond to potentially harmful sources of noise. Sea turtles are among the evolutionarily oldest and most endangered marine species.
Wendy E Dow, Piniak   +3 more
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Kemp's Ridley Sea Turtles

Science, 1992
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D J, Shaver, M R, Fletcher
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Microplastics Presence in Sea Turtles

2017
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Ostiategui-Francia, P.   +2 more
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