sea turtles
Effects of projected changes in tropical cyclone frequency on sea turtles
... on sea turtles, studies have begun to predict how spe- cific climatic processes will affect sea turtles’ terrestrial reproductive phase (Hawkes et ...or sea-level rise (Fish et ...to ...
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Use of multiple orientation cues by juvenile loggerhead sea turtles Caretta caretta
... of turtles swimming in the ...hatchling turtles (Salmon and Lohmann, 1989; Witherington, 1991) and are also not surprising because sea turtles are myopic in air (Ehrenfeld and Koch, ...tether. ...
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Do marine protected areas in the Red Sea afford protection to dugongs and sea turtles?
... and sea turtles identified in our study, bycatch from gill nets may be the more serious given the number of adult animals at risk of ...and sea turtles, especially in a marine protected ...
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Deciphering function of the pulmonary arterial sphincters in loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta)
... loggerhead sea turtles that had drowned or were euthanized by the attending veterinarian owing to severe injuries after fisheries interactions along the Valencian ...in sea turtles, and ...
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Leatherback sea turtles (Dermochelys coriacea) in Irish waters
... Leatherback turtles (Dermochelys coriacea, Vandelli 1761) are the only surviving species of an evolutionary lineage ...other sea turtles 100-150 million years ago (Dutton et ...extant sea ...
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Pinpointing 'Isla Meta': the case of sea turtles and albatrosses
... comparing sea turtles, nature’s heavily built marathon swimmers, which cross the seas using the strength of their flippers, with albatrosses, her swift acrobats, which glide over the ...both sea ...
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Heart rates and diving behavior of leatherback sea turtles in the eastern pacific ocean
... sea turtles. Heart rates have been recorded from captive cheloniid turtles and from sea turtles on nesting beaches, but heart rates during diving have never before been recorded from ...
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Magnet induced disorientation in hatchling loggerhead sea turtles
... box turtles (Terrapene carolina; Mathis and Moore, 1988) has reportedly been altered by magnets under at least some ...With sea turtles, the few attempts that have been undertaken all relied on small ...
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There and back again: natal homing by magnetic navigation in sea turtles and salmon
... migrants. Sea turtles are secondarily marine, having descended from terrestrial reptiles, while salmon, being fish, lack terrestrial ...histories, sea turtles and salmon appear to accomplish ...
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DETECTION OF MAGNETIC INCLINATION ANGLE BY SEA TURTLES: A POSSIBLE MECHANISM FOR DETERMINING LATITUDE
... Whether sea turtles have similar endogenous time programs that influence migratory orientation is not known. In our experiments, hatchlings exposed to 60 ˚ and 30 ˚ inclination angles swam in nearly ...
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Navigation and seasonal migratory orientation in juvenile sea turtles
... the turtles were capable of determining the direction of their capture site, or their ‘homeward’ direction, after being passively displaced 30–167·km and placed into an orientation ...in sea turtles ...
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The productivity of return migrants: the case of China’s “Sea Turtles”
... “sea turtles” is not sizable enough to yield informative inference when compared with the whole labor ...“sea turtles,” add a China’s perspective to the bigger picture of the international ...
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Multidisciplinary insights into the conservation and biology of sea turtles in Mozambique
... of turtles (Table ...with turtles, 4) rates of illegal take, 5) enforcement, 6) traditions and culture and 7) perception of changes to fisheries (including sea turtle ...
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The effect of biologging systems on reproduction, growth and survival of adult sea turtles
... in sea turtles [30, 31], contributing widely to priority research questions ...of sea turtles [37, 38], as well as providing improved estimates of sea turtle abundance [39, ...
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Global distribution of two fungal pathogens threatening endangered sea turtles
... extinction. Sea turtles are one of the most endangered groups of animals and only seven species have survived to ...six sea turtle species and that are implicated in low hatch ...to sea turtle ...
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Informing research priorities for immature sea turtles through expert elicitation
... Although sea turtles have received substantial focus worldwide, research on the im- mature life stages is still relatively ...of sea turtle populations comprises immature ...of sea turtle ...
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Body temperature stability achieved by the large body mass of sea turtles
... loggerhead turtles, Caretta caretta, during internesting periods using data ...loggerhead turtles were shorter when the body temperatures were higher. Sea turtles seem to benefit from a ...
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GEOMAGNETIC ORIENTATION OF LOGGERHEAD SEA TURTLES: EVIDENCE FOR AN INCLINATION COMPASS
... Although the magnetic compasses of both birds and sea turtles appear to be based on field line inclination rather than on field polarity, evidence suggests this is not the case for all animals. For example, ...
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Global research priorities for sea turtles: informing management and conservation in the 21st century
... Today’s sea turtle conservation ‘movement’ can trace its roots to nesting beaches, where protection efforts started in the 1950s with a handful of projects and have since expanded to hundreds, if not thousands, of ...
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Spatial ecology and conservation of sea turtles in coastal foraging habitat
... in sea turtles and some marine ...ridley turtles (Lepidochelys kempii) in the western North Atlantic and juvenile loggerhead turtles in the western North Pacific move away from their ...
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