The importance of sample size in marine megafauna tagging studies

AMM Sequeira, MR Heupel, MA Lea… - Ecological …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Telemetry is a key, widely used tool to understand marine megafauna distribution, habitat
use, behavior, and physiology; however, a critical question remains:“How many animals …

Influence of incubation temperature on sea turtle hatchling quality

DT Booth - Integrative Zoology, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Since the 1980s it has been known that incubation temperature influences the sex ratio of
sea turtle hatchlings emerging from their nests, and there has been much speculation on …

[HTML][HTML] Overhauling ocean spatial planning to improve marine megafauna conservation

AMM Sequeira, GC Hays, DW Sims… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Tracking data have led to evidence-based conservation of marine megafauna, but a
disconnect remains between the many 1000s of individual animals that have been tracked …

Artificial light on water attracts turtle hatchlings during their near shore transit

M Thums, SD Whiting, J Reisser… - Royal Society …, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
We examined the effect of artificial light on the near shore trajectories of turtle hatchlings
dispersing from natal beaches. Green turtle (Chelonia mydas) hatchlings were tagged with …

[HTML][HTML] Testing the VEMCO Positioning System: spatial distribution of the probability of location and the positioning error in a reservoir

R Roy, J Beguin, C Argillier, L Tissot, F Smith… - Animal …, 2014 - Springer
Background Recent improvements in fixed acoustic monitoring receivers allow the tracking
of individual aquatic animals over long periods of time with regular fine-scale positions. The …

Using the VEMCO Positioning System (VPS) to explore fine-scale movements of aquatic species: applications, analytical approaches and future directions

DL Orrell, NE Hussey - Marine Ecology Progress Series, 2022 - int-res.com
Recent advancements in telemetry have redefined our ability to quantify the fine-scale
movements of aquatic animals and derive a mechanistic understanding of movement …

Implications of location accuracy and data volume for home range estimation and fine-scale movement analysis: comparing Argos and Fastloc-GPS tracking data

JA Thomson, L Börger, MJA Christianen, N Esteban… - Marine Biology, 2017 - Springer
The advent of Fastloc-GPS is helping to transform marine animal tracking by allowing the
collection of high-quality location data for species that surface only briefly. We show how the …

Artificial light disrupts the nearshore dispersal of neonate flatback turtles Natator depressus

P Wilson, M Thums, C Pattiaratchi, M Meekan… - Marine Ecology …, 2018 - int-res.com
After emerging from nests, neonate sea turtles entering the water are thought to orientate
away from shore using wave cues to guide them out to sea. Artificial light may interfere with …

Acoustic positioning and movement patterns of red snapper Lutjanus campechanus around artificial reefs in the northern Gulf of Mexico

LJ Williams-Grove, ST Szedlmayer - Marine Ecology Progress Series, 2016 - int-res.com
Over a 3 yr period fine-scale (m) movements of red snapper Lutjanus campechanus were
estimated with the Vemco VR2W Positioning System (VPS) on 3 artificial reefs, and wider …

Nano-tags for neonates and ocean-mediated swimming behaviours linked to rapid dispersal of hatchling sea turtles

R Scott, A Biastoch, C Roder… - … of the Royal …, 2014 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Dispersal during juvenile life stages drives the life-history evolution and dynamics of many
marine vertebrate populations. However, the movements of juvenile organisms, too small to …