Aerial and snorkelling census techniques for estimating green turtle abundance on foraging areas: a pilot study in Mayotte Island (Indian Ocean)

D Roos, D Pelletier, S Ciccione, M Taquet… - Aquatic Living …, 2005 - cambridge.org
… The large number of green turtles observed in our study suggests that Mayotte Island is
an … Comparisons with other sites would be invaluable in ascertaining whether Mayotte is …

Mayotte Island: another important green turtle nesting site in the southwest Indian Ocean

J Bourjea, J Frappier, M Quillard, S Ciccione… - Endangered Species …, 2007 - int-res.com
abundance time series for the Saziley site (1 of the 2 major green turtle nesting sites of Mayotte
We then estimated the underlying time-specific trend in Mayotte nest abundance over the …

Seasonal diving behaviour and feeding rhythms of green turtles at Mayotte Island

K Ballorain, J Bourjea, S Ciccione, A Kato… - Marine Ecology …, 2013 - int-res.com
… In addition, by documenting the year-round importance of shallow coastal habitats for green
turtles in an emerging tourism destination such as Mayotte (Bernardie-Tahir & Omar 2001), …

Habitat use of a multispecific seagrass meadow by green turtles Chelonia mydas at Mayotte Island

K Ballorain, S Ciccione, J Bourjea, H Grizel, M Enstipp… - Marine biology, 2010 - Springer
island of Mayotte (BK, CS, BJ, EM, GH, GJ-Y., unpublished data), with Halodule uninervis
and Syringodium isoetifolium being the most abundant, … is representative of Mayotte’s marine …

[PDF][PDF] Mayotte, Reunion, Scattered Islands

O Territories - reunion.developpement-durable …
… In Mayotte, sea turtles are both subject to heavy poaching and … These islands are propitious
habitats for sea turtles, sheltering … Green turtles can be seen laying eggs in abundance on all …

Seasonality, abundance, and fifteen-year trend in green turtle nesting activity at Itsamia, Moheli, Comoros

J Bourjea, M Dalleau, S Derville, F Beudard… - Endangered Species …, 2015 - int-res.com
… As there is no robust value of mˆ for Itsamia beaches, we used the value from Saziley beach
(Mayotte), an intensively studied green turtle nesting beach similar to Itsamia beaches in …

Ultralight aircraft surveys reveal marine turtle population increases along the west coast of Reunion Island

C Jean, S Ciccione, K Ballorain, JY Georges, J Bourjea - Oryx, 2010 - cambridge.org
… the relative abundance and distribution of marine turtle … However, the Mayotte study
estimated the total number of turtles … in this particular seagrass bed in Mayotte may not be …

Bycatch of protected megafauna in the artisanal coastal fishery of Mayotte Island, Mozambique Channel

C Pusineri, M Quillard - Western Indian Ocean Journal of Marine Science, 2008 - ajol.info
Mayotte Island is surrounded by one of the largest lagoon in the … turtles occur in Mayotte
waters (Observatory of Sea Turtles, … The abundance of foraging turtles has been assessed in …

Foraging of the green sea turtle Chelonia mydas on seagrass beds at Mayotte Island (Indian Ocean), determined by acoustic transmitters

C Taquet, M Taquet, T Dempster, M Soria… - Marine Ecology …, 2006 - int-res.com
abundance near the … green turtles, we equipped 8 individuals with acoustic transmitters
and passively tracked them using a network of listening stations moored in N’Gouja Bay, Mayotte

Contrasted habitats and individual plasticity drive the fine scale movements of juvenile green turtles in coastal ecosystems

P Chambault, M Dalleau, JB Nicet, P Mouquet… - Movement ecology, 2020 - Springer
… In Mayotte, most of the turtles remained between the coastline and the 10 m isobaths, and
in … could therefore preferentially select seagrass beds when they are sufficiently abundant-…