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Global research priorities for sea turtles: informing management and conservation in the 21st century
... and other marine debris as well as the need to parame- terise sublethal effects (e.g. dietary dilution or chemi- cal absorption; McCauley & Bjorndal 1999). Coastal and marine pollution is increasing dramatically ...
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The role of turtles as coral reef macroherbivores
... Ecological resilience may derive from overlapping function within scales, and reinforcement across scales [45]. Within coral reef systems, even some of the largest herbivorous reef fishes have relatively small home ...
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Strandings of Leatherback turtles (Dermochelys coriacea) along the western and southern coast of the Gulf of Venezuela
... stranded turtles was heavily skewed towards juvenile Leatherback ...Leatherback Turtles using the GV may migrate at similar times and by similar routes as the adult ...Leatherback Turtles broadly ...
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Magnetic navigation behavior and the oceanic ecology of young loggerhead sea turtles
... The fact that two magnetic fields within the central portion of the Canary Current System failed to elicit oriented swimming is consistent with this hypothesis. Numerous juvenile loggerheads from the southeastern USA are ...
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The effect of biologging systems on reproduction, growth and survival of adult sea turtles
... recaptures for ‘non-tracked’ females, suggesting that device attachment is unlikely to be the cause of the in- crease observed in ‘tracked’ females. The small sample size in this study, however, may have prevented the ...
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Cardiorespiratory synchrony in turtles
... In turtles, the existence of bidirectional shunting has been documented in several studies (Burggren and Shelton, 1979; Heisler and Glass, 1985; White et ...
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Swim speed and movement patterns of gravid leatherback sea turtles (Dermochelys coriacea) at St Croix, US Virgin Islands
... Type-1 speed patterns usually occurred during vertical dives in which the turtle initiates each dive with a bout of high-speed swimming that gradually slows as it descends to maximum depth and then gradually accelerates ...
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Detection of Antibodies to a Disease Associated Herpesvirus of the Green Turtle, Chelonia mydas
... green turtles in Florida are exposed to LETV and identify the urgent need to investigate this disease ...of turtles for exposure to LETV in the absence of overt ...infected turtles or by contact with ...
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European pond turtle (Emys orbicularis persica) as a biomarker of environmental pollution in Golestan and Mazandaran provinces, Iran
... as turtles, would be very useful for biomonitoring of environmental ...pond turtles and their ecosystem in Golestan and Mazandaran ...pond turtles were analyzed by atomic absorption spectrophotometer ...
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Good vibrations: a novel method for sexing turtles
... chicken turtles (Deirochelys reticularia miaria; family: Emydidae), Mis- sissippi mud turtles (Kinosternon subrubrum hippocrepis; family: Kinosternidae), common musk turtles (Ster- notherus odoratus; ...
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Turtles and vessels: threat evaluation and behavioural studies of green turtles in near-shore foraging grounds
... green turtles that surface too briefly for effective use of standard ...green turtles in shallow coastal foraging ...green turtles in coastal foraging habitat in Queensland, ...
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Turtles and vessels: threat evaluation and behavioural studies of green turtles in near-shore foraging grounds
... (c) Turtles encountered at the sea surface fled more frequently than those in the water column, but small sample sizes precluded analysis by offset ...green turtles (Cm) demonstrated bias at shorter ...
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Outbreaks of Salmonellosis From Small Turtles
... own turtles but was exposed at a beach shop in the week before illness ...small turtles at Florida shops yielded Salmonella indistinguishable by PFGE from those isolated from the ...small turtles; ...
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Sea turtles and survivability in demersal trawl fisheries: Do comatose olive ridley sea turtles survive post-release?
... instrumented turtles (Fig. 2) are similar to dive depths recorded for turtles in other parts of the world (Australia, [38, 39]; French Guiana, [40]), as well as from previous studies in this region on nest- ...
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Establishing a protocol for thromboelastography in sea turtles
... FIG 1: Three representative thromboelastographic tracings using citrated plasma or whole blood from sea turtles and various methods of activation. Red TEG: activation with frozen thromboplastin using fresh plasma ...
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Global conservation priorities for marine turtles
... marine turtles are circumglobally distributed, inhabit nearly all oceans, occupy unique ecological niches, and exhibit intra-specific variations in population sizes, and trends, as well as reproduction and ...
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Microplastic ingestion ubiquitous in marine turtles
... marine turtles to confirm the presence and ingestion of suspected microplastics and other synthetic materials, we recom- mend this protocol for surveying other large marine vertebrate gut content or to be used in ...
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Over-wintering Characteristics of West-Central Wisconsin Blanding's Turtles, Emydoidea blandingii
... ping Turtles (Graham and Butler ...Blanding’s Turtles remained somewhat active in winter in their Missouri study site near the southern portion of the species’ range, moving by as much as 13 m at water ...
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Secure-Turtles: Building a Secure Execution Environment for Guest VMs on Turtles System
... We proposed Secure-Turtles, a secure nested virtual system based on Turtles system, which can run L2 guest VMs securely. In this system, we build a trust chain from the L0 host hypervisor, the L1 guest ...
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Knowing sea turtles: local communities informing conservation in Koh Rong Archipelago, Cambodia
... sea turtles in Cambodia was ...sea turtles around Cambodia were examined by Ing (1999, 2000), while Fauna & Flora International conducted a rapid assess- ment of nesting sites along the coastline ...
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