Population and Kin Structure of Hawksbill Turtles: Insights on Natal Homing Precision, Time to Maturity and the Male Component of the Breeding Population

KE Levasseur - 2019 - search.proquest.com
Marine turtles have long endured population declines and face a growing number of
contemporary threats, highlighting the need for population assessments and conservation …

Precise natal homing and an estimate of age at sexual maturity in hawksbill turtles

KE Levasseur, SP Stapleton, JM Quattro - Animal Conservation, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The geographic specificity of natal philopatry (how precisely breeding individuals return to
their natal origins) influences breeding biology, genetic diversity and habitat range, and …

Kinship genomics approach to study mating systems in a depleted sea turtle rookery

SS Prakash, MM Lal, PH Dutton, C Rico… - Regional Studies in …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Knowledge of demographic processes and life history strategies is necessary for
the conservation and management of endangered sea turtle populations, but it is difficult to …

Non-random mating between nesting sites of Hawaiian hawksbill turtles: demographic discontinuity within a small isolated population

JB Horne, A Frey, AR Gaos, S Martin, PH Dutton - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Hawksbill sea turtles (Eretmochelys imbricata) from the Hawaiian archipelago form a small,
genetically isolated, population consisting of only a few tens of individuals breeding …

Non-random mating within an Island rookery of Hawaiian hawksbill turtles: demographic discontinuity at a small coastline scale

JB Horne, A Frey, AR Gaos… - Royal Society Open …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Hawksbill sea turtles (Eretmochelys imbricata) from the Hawaiian archipelago form a small
and genetically isolated population, consisting of only a few tens of individuals breeding …

Exceptionally high natal homing precision in hawksbill sea turtles to insular rookeries of the Caribbean

KE Levasseur, SP Stapleton, MC Fuller… - … Ecology Progress Series, 2019 - int-res.com
Marine turtles migrate back to their natal region during reproduction, but the precision of this
homing behavior and how the precision varies among populations and across …

[PDF][PDF] Northernmost records of hawksbill sea turtle nests and possible trans-Atlantic colonization event

SA Finn, WP Thompson, BM Shamblin… - Marine Turtle …, 2016 - researchgate.net
The hawksbill sea turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata) is considered to be mostly tropical in its
distribution in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans (Witzell 1983; Meylan & Redlow 2006) …

Hawksbill turtle terra incognita: conservation genetics of eastern Pacific rookeries

AR Gaos, RL Lewison, MJ Liles, V Gadea… - Ecology and …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Prior to 2008 and the discovery of several important hawksbill turtle (Eretmochelys
imbricata) nesting colonies in the EP (Eastern Pacific), the species was considered virtually …

Genetic variation, multiple paternity, and measures of reproductive success in the critically endangered hawksbill turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata)

BI González‐Garza, A Stow… - Ecology and …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico contains some of the largest breeding groups of
the globally distributed and critically endangered hawksbill turtle (E retmochelys imbricata) …

Post-hatchling sea turtle biology

MC Boyle - 2006 - researchonline.jcu.edu.au
The post-hatchling stage of a sea turtle's life history has often been referred to as the'lost
years', reflecting the lack of understanding about this phase in their life. Obtaining …