Natural biotoxins and anthropogenic toxicants pose a significant risk to sea turtle health.
Documented effects of contaminants include potential disease progression and adverse …

Because of their vulnerable population status, assessing exposure levels and impacts of
toxins on the health status of Gulf of Mexico marine turtle populations is critical. From 2011 to …

Blooms of Karenia brevis (also called red tides) occur almost annually in the Gulf of Mexico.
The health effects of the neurotoxins (ie, brevetoxins) produced by this toxic dinoflagellate …

Many species of marine life in southwestern Florida, including sea turtles, are impacted by
blooms of the toxic dinoflagellate, Karenia brevis. Sublethal exposure to toxins produced by …

Five green (Chelonia mydas) and 11 Kemp's ridley (Lepidochelys kempii) sea turtles found
dead, or that died soon after stranding, on the southern Texas (USA) coast during 2 Karenia …

Blooms of the toxic dinoflagellate, Karenia brevis, occur almost annually off the Florida
coast. These blooms, commonly called “red tides”, produce a group of neurotoxins …

Data on Karenia brevis red tides (≥ 10 5 cells l-1) and on dead or debilitated (ie stranded)
Kemp's ridleys Lepidochelys kempii, loggerheads Caretta caretta, green turtles Chelonia …

In 2005 and 2006, the central west Florida coast experienced two intense Karenia brevis red
tide events lasting from February 2005 through December 2005 and August 2006 through …

Beginning in October 2000, subadult loggerhead sea turtles Caretta caretta showing clinical
signs of a neurological disorder were found in waters off south Florida, USA. Histopathology …

Chemical contamination of marine turtles has been well documented in the literature,
although information on the toxicological effects of these contaminants is poorly understood …