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

Creator:

Piacenza, Susan E. H.

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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...

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conversations on monitoring sea turtles in Florida gave important context to sea turtle monitoring. Heather
It’s in Their Bones: Ecological Drivers of Kemp’s Ridley Sea Turtle (Lepidochelys kempii) Somatic Growth and Population Dynamics

Creator:

Ramirez, Matthew D.

Abstract:

Somatic growth variation manifests from the cumulative effects of a suite of biological, ecological, and environmental processes and can have profound effects on individual fitness and species population dynamics. As ectotherms whose growth dynamics are greatly influenced by environmental factors, sea turtles display considerable variation in somatic growth within and...

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ocean. Thank you to Heather Haas for assistance in obtaining funding for some of these projects and