Monitoring the abundance of green turtles (Chelonia mydas) is necessary to assess
population trends and risks of collapse. This note presents a study aimed at comparing three …

Estimating population abundance of marine turtles on their feeding grounds is needed to
implement effective conservation strategies, but is logistically challenging. In-water …

This study was designed to provide fundamental data for the in-water population of turtles
along the southeast coast of the United States, with particular emphasis on measuring …

Long-term studies of green turtles in coastal marine habitats of the Hawaiian Islands have
been underway since the late 1970's. The overall objective of this research is to obtain …

In 1984 and 1985, during surveys designed primarily to census dugongs, six species of sea
turtles were counted from the air at an overall sampling intensity of 9% over a total area of 31 …

Six species of sea turtles occur in the Pacific Ocean (green turtles, loggerheads,
leatherbacks, hawksbills, olive ridleys and flatbacks). All species, except flatbacks, have …

The summer of 1999 was the eleventh consecutive year that the Marine Turtle Research
group has captured marine turtles over the Sabellariid worm rock reef in the nearshore …

MYTH Those of us who have been conducting long term census studies of green turtle,
Chelonia mydas, populations no longer accept that the status of the population can be …

Long-term records of nesting numbers, or proxies to nesting numbers, show a precipitous
decline in the size of many sea turtle populations. Population declines are most frequently …

Seventy-three green turtles, Chelonia mydas (Linnaeus, 1758), were observed in 84
sightings along 28 transects covering 67% of Rota's shoreline and outer reef perimeter in …