Delineating spatial use combined with threat assessment to aid critical recovery of northeast Australia's endangered hawksbill turtle, one of western Pacific's last …

CA Madden Hof, C Smith, S Miller, K Ashman… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The current rate of decline in the globally significant western Pacific hawksbill turtle nesting
population on Milman Island on the northern Great Barrier Reef (neQLD) suggests that it …

[HTML][HTML] Global trends in sea turtle research and conservation: Using symposium abstracts to assess past biases and future opportunities

NJ Robinson, J Aguzzi, S Arias, C Gatto… - Global Ecology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
We quantified research trends in the field of sea turtle science by collating data from 30
years of abstracts presented annually at the International Sea Turtle Symposium–the largest …

Marine turtle regional management units 2.0: an updated framework for conservation and research of wide-ranging megafauna species

BP Wallace, ZA Posnik, BJ Hurley… - Endangered Species …, 2023 - int-res.com
Delineating spatial boundaries that accurately encompass complex, often cryptic, life
histories of highly migratory marine megafauna can be a significant conservation challenge …

Key issues in assessing threats to sea turtles: knowledge gaps and future directions

MMPB Fuentes, E McMichael, CY Kot… - Endangered Species …, 2023 - int-res.com
Sea turtles are an iconic group of marine megafauna that have been exposed to multiple
anthropogenic threats across their different life stages, especially in the past decades. This …

Recent decline of green turtle Chelonia mydas nesting trend at Tortuguero, Costa Rica

J Restrepo, EG Webster, I Ramos… - Endangered Species …, 2023 - int-res.com
Trends in abundance of different life stages present important opportunities to manage the
conservation of threatened species. For marine turtles, most trend assessments are based …

[HTML][HTML] Piscichuvirus-associated severe meningoencephalomyelitis in aquatic turtles, United States, 2009–2021

W Laovechprasit, KT Young, BA Stacy… - Emerging Infectious …, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Viruses from a new species of piscichuvirus were strongly associated with severe
lymphocytic meningoencephalomyelitis in several free-ranging aquatic turtles from 3 coastal …

Perceived social benefits and drawbacks of sea turtle conservation efforts in a globally important sea turtle rookery

S Vieira, V Jiménez, B Ferreira-Airaud, A Pina… - Biodiversity and …, 2024 - Springer
Conservation interventions have wide-ranging social impacts-both positive and negative.
Yet a limited understanding of how conservation initiatives affect people's livelihoods often …

Satellite Tracking of Head-Started Juvenile Green Turtles (Chelonia mydas) Reveals Release Effects and an Ontogenetic Shift

N Barbour, H Bailey, WF Fagan, W Mustin, V Baboolal… - Animals, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Tracking juvenile animals is often difficult due to their small body sizes. We
put miniature satellite tags on 40 captive-raised (“head-started”) green sea turtles (Chelonia …

Reducing sea turtle bycatch with net illumination in an Indonesian small-scale coastal gillnet fishery

DA Gautama, H Susanto, M Riyanto… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Small-scale fisheries are economically and culturally important throughout the world's
coastal waters. These fisheries, however, often have high bycatch rates of protected marine …

Tracking nest-rescued green sea turtles in oceanic currents sheds light on eastern Caribbean “lost years”

JJ Levenson, R Cooper, A Weissman, D Bell… - Frontiers in Amphibian …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Although sea turtles are well-studied charismatic marine species, little is known about the
juvenile stage, especially the oceanic phase between hatching on their natal beaches and …