Environmental pollution and biodiversity: Light pollution and sea turtles in the Caribbean

M Brei, A Pérez-Barahona, E Strobl - Journal of Environmental Economics …, 2016 - Elsevier
… ., 2004), the impact of rising coastal illumination has gone largely unexplored (Hill, 2006, …
light pollution in Caribbean coastal areas may have affected the critically endangered sea turtle

Coastal light pollution and marine turtles: assessing the magnitude of the problem

RL Kamrowski, C Limpus, J Moloney… - Endangered Species …, 2012 - int-res.com
… Firstly, we assessed the proportion of nesting marine turtles within Australia that are exposed
to coastal light pollution as it is detected from space. This proportion was assessed at both …

Association between nighttime artificial light pollution and sea turtle nest density along Florida coast: A geospatial study using VIIRS remote sensing data

Z Hu, H Hu, Y Huang - Environmental Pollution, 2018 - Elsevier
… concerning nest density and light pollution correlation at a … of sea turtles in relation to light
pollution. Understanding the factors that affect the distribution and vulnerability of sea turtles is …

The effect of on-shore light pollution on sea-turtle hatchlings commencing their off-shore swim

Z Truscott, DT Booth, CJ Limpus - Wildlife Research, 2017 - CSIRO Publishing
… green turtle hatchlings respond to land-based light pollution … shore by light pollution, and if
so, does moon light affect this … have entered the sea, hatchling sea turtles returning to shore …

[HTML][HTML] Exploring scenarios of light pollution from coastal development reaching sea turtle nesting beaches near Cabo Pulmo, Mexico

GM Verutes, C Huang, RR Estrella, K Loyd - Global ecology and …, 2014 - Elsevier
… in Mexico, our approach and free, open-source software can be applied in other places
around the world to better understand and manage the threats of light pollution to sea turtles. …

Quantifying the impact of light pollution on sea turtle nesting using ground-based imagery

J Vandersteen, S Kark, K Sorrell, N Levin - Remote Sensing, 2020 - mdpi.com
… the actual light pollution perceived by animals, using sea turtles as a case … coast of Heron
Island, a coral cay in the southern Great Barrier Reef of Australia, and an important sea turtle

Influence of industrial light pollution on the sea-finding behaviour of flatback turtle hatchlings

RL Kamrowski, C Limpus, K Pendoley… - Wildlife …, 2015 - CSIRO Publishing
… studies show that artificial light disrupts the sea-finding ability of marine turtle hatchlings.
Yet … sea-finding for flatback turtles. Given the current industrialisation of Australia’s coastline, …

[HTML][HTML] Light pollution affects nesting behavior of loggerhead turtles and predation risk of nests and hatchlings

E Silva, A Marco, J da Graça, H Pérez, E Abella… - … of Photochemistry and …, 2017 - Elsevier
… studies on the effects that light pollution has on sea turtles, and almost all of them focus solely
on hatchlings and specifically the alterations to their sea-finding abilities immediately after …

Assessing coastal artificial light and potential exposure of wildlife at a national scale: the case of marine turtles in Brazil

LP Colman, PH Lara, J Bennie, AC Broderick… - Biodiversity and …, 2020 - Springer
… To determine the proportion of nesting marine turtles that are likely to be potentially exposed
to coastal light pollution, we used data on nest counts collected by Projeto TAMAR. During …

Conservation hotspots for marine turtle nesting in the United States based on coastal development

MMPB Fuentes, C Gredzens, BL Bateman… - Ecological …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
… Exposure to light pollution The vast majority (97.8%) of the marine turtle nesting sites studied
were potentially exposed to light pollution (category 2–8; Table 2) within 1 km (Table 1). …