… behavior of marine turtles. As a compromise we suggest that BM2 is a conservative
estimate of the stock contributions to the NC foraging ground, however, we will limit further …

… Loggerhead turtles in this study deposit up to eight nests a season (Tucker, 2009) and
have documented reproductive histories spanning 21 years (Mote Marine Laboratory, unpubl. …

… and for the available loggerhead and green turtle data. Finally, we discuss the implications
of MCMC estimation for stock analysis, in general, and for turtle stock analysis, in particular. …

… after a lag, as turtles are slow to mature. We examined 850 loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta)
by‐… We identified proportions of turtles from 19 distinct management units ( MU s), using …

… In all tests that required estimates of sequence divergence, we used the Tamura-Nei model
of nucleotide substitutions, which was designed for control region sequences (Tamura & Nei …

… As well as considering the basic estimate of contribution to each of the known mixed stocks,
… to known stocks [eg N/(N + S + G) would represent the contribution to the Northern stock …

… -stock analysis to produce stock composition estimates for juvenile loggerhead turtles that …
We found that nearly all of the loggerheads caught in NED waters belonged to the Northwest …

… This may explain the larger discrepancy amongst stock estimates from the two
approaches obtained for the Adriatic juvenile aggregation with respect to STUN juv (Fig. 3). …

… Tucker AD (2010) Nest site fidelity and clutch frequency of loggerhead turtles are better
elucidated by satellite telemetry than by nocturnal tagging efforts: implications for stock estimation…

… Although we report a decline in abundance, the apparent survival estimate for adult
female loggerhead turtles nesting in the Northern Gulf of Mexico was at the high end of those …