Migratory corridor linking Atlantic green turtle, Chelonia mydas, nesting site on Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea to Ghanaian foraging grounds

E Mettler, CE Clyde-Brockway, S Honarvar… - Plos one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
This study uses satellite telemetry to track post-nesting movements of endangered green
turtles (Chelonia mydas)(n= 6) in the Gulf of Guinea. It identifies a migratory corridor linking …

Determining critical inter-nesting, migratory, and foraging habitats for the conservation of East Atlantic green turtles (Chelonia mydas)

EK Mettler, CE Clyde-Brockway, EM Sinclair… - Marine Biology, 2020 - Springer
Satellite telemetry was used to track inter-nesting, post-nesting, and foraging movements of
six green turtles that nested on Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea at the end of the 2019 …

[PDF][PDF] A juvenile green turtle long distance migration in the Western Indian Ocean

C Sanchez, C Lucas, O Odhiambo… - Marine Turtle …, 2020 - researchgate.net
Juvenile sea turtles are known to undertake long migrations (Hays & Scott 2013) and
undergo ontogenetic shifts in their foraging habitats (Bolten 2003; Reich et al. 2007; Arthur …

[PDF][PDF] Sea turtle bycatch off the western region of the Ghanaian Coast

C Tanner - Marine Turtle Newsletter, 2014 - researchportal.bath.ac.uk
Relatively little is known about the migration patterns, genetic variation or nesting behavior
of sea turtles along the approximate 560-km long coast of Ghana, in West Africa (Tanner …

Satellite tracking of migrating loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) displaced in the open sea

P Luschi, GR Hughes, R Mencacci, E De Bernardi… - Marine Biology, 2003 - Springer
Loggerhead turtles (Caretta caretta) are known to migrate towards fixed, individually-specific
residential feeding grounds. To study their spatial behaviour and their navigational ability …

[PDF][PDF] Post-nesting movements of the green turtle, Chelonia mydas, nesting in the south of Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea, West Africa

J Tomas, A Formia, J Castroviejo… - Marine Turtle …, 2001 - repository.library.noaa.gov
Sea turtle research in the Gulf of Guinea is quite recent. Therefore, the developmental,
nesting and foraging habitats, as well as, the migratory routes of most populations have not …

Inter-nesting, migration, and foraging behaviors of green turtles (Chelonia mydas) in the central-southern Red Sea

LK Tanabe, JEM Cochran, ML Berumen - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Sea turtles are migratory with nesting and foraging areas in distinct and often widely
separated habitats. Telemetry has been a vital tool for tracking sea turtle migrations between …

Green turtles highlight connectivity across a regional marine protected area network in West Africa

AR Patrício, M Beal, C Barbosa, D Diouck… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Networks of marine protected areas (MPAs) are invaluable for the protection of species with
high dispersal capacity, yet connectivity within networks is poorly understood. We …

Movements of green turtles from foraging areas of the United Arab Emirates: regional habitat connectivity and use of marine protected areas

NJ Pilcher, MA Antonopoulou, CJ Rodriguez-Zarate… - Marine Biology, 2021 - Springer
Adult sea turtles migrate between foraging areas and nesting sites that may be 100 s–1000
s of km away. Little is known of the connectivity between these sites in the Arabian region for …

First encounter of a stranded Loggerhead marine turtle entangled in a ghost net on the Southeast coast of Mauritius Island

S RAMAH, ANNTC VOON, K BEETUL - Ecology, 2019 - iotn.org
Five species of sea turtles occur in the Southwest Indian Ocean, of which the green
(Chelonia mydas) and the hawksbill (Eretmochelys imbricata) are the most widely …