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Quantitative Tools for Monitoring Strategy Evaluation and Assessment of Sea Turtle Populations

Creator:

Piacenza, Susan E. H.

Abstract:

Green sea turtles, Chelonia mydas, have endangered and threatened populations globally, but several populations show signs of population recovery. In Hawaii, nesting female green turtles have increased 5.7% year⁻¹ since 1973, but wide fluctuations in census counts of nesting females make recovery diagnosis difficult. For effective management planning, it is...

Resource Type:

Dissertation