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] Improving approaches to mapping seagrass within the great barrier reef: From field to spaceborne earth observation

LJ McKenzie, LA Langlois, CM Roelfsema - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
Seagrass meadows are a key ecosystem of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area,
providing one of the natural heritage attributes underpinning the reef's outstanding universal …

[HTML][HTML] Dietary analysis of two sympatric marine turtle species in the eastern Mediterranean

JL Palmer, D Beton, BA Çiçek, S Davey, EM Duncan… - Marine Biology, 2021 - Springer
Dietary studies provide key insights into threats and changes within ecosystems and
subsequent impacts on focal species. Diet is particularly challenging to study within marine …

[HTML][HTML] The effect of smartphones on the self-rated health levels of the elderly

X Liang, F Xiong, F Xie - BMC Public Health, 2022 - Springer
Background Due to the penetration of Internet use and the popularity of “Internet+ elderly
care” among seniors in recent years, the elderly are gradually integrating into the …

[HTML][HTML] Litter ingestion and entanglement in green turtles: an analysis of two decades of stranding events in the NE Atlantic

Y Rodríguez, F Vandeperre, MR Santos, L Herrera… - Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Survivorship of early life stages is key for the well-being of sea turtle populations, yet studies
on animals that distribute around oceanic areas are very challenging. So far, the information …

What's going to be on the menu with global environmental changes?

J Hallam, NC Harris - Global Change Biology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Ongoing anthropogenic change is altering the planet at an unprecedented rate, threatening
biodiversity, and ecosystem functioning. Species are responding to abiotic pressures at both …

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 …

Travel routes to remote ocean targets reveal the map sense resolution for a marine migrant

GC Hays, N Atchison-Balmond… - Journal of The …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
How animals navigate across the ocean to isolated targets remains perplexing greater than
150 years since this question was considered by Charles Darwin. To help solve this long …

[HTML][HTML] Sea turtles in the cancer risk landscape: a global meta-analysis of fibropapillomatosis prevalence and associated risk factors

AM Dujon, G Schofield, RM Venegas, F Thomas… - Pathogens, 2021 - mdpi.com
Several cancer risk factors (exposure to ultraviolet-B, pollution, toxins and pathogens) have
been identified for wildlife, to form a “cancer risk landscape.” However, information remains …

Diet and foraging niche flexibility in green and hawksbill turtles

CE Clyde-Brockway, M Heidemeyer, FV Paladino… - Marine Biology, 2022 - Springer
We used stable isotopes to investigate isotopic niche size, overlap, and diet composition in
green (black and yellow morphotype Chelonia mydas; 50.0 to 95.0 cm curved carapace …