Impacts of fisheries bycatch on marine turtle populations worldwide: toward conservation and research priorities

BP Wallace, CY Kot, AD DiMatteo, T Lee… - …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Fisheries bycatch is considered the most serious threat globally to long‐lived marine
megafauna (eg, mammals, birds, turtles, elasmobranchs). However, bycatch assessments to …

Satellite tracking large numbers of individuals to infer population level dispersal and core areas for the protection of an endangered species

G Schofield, A Dimadi, S Fossette… - Diversity and …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Tracking the dispersal patterns and habitat use of migratory species is necessary to
delineate optimal areas for protection, with large sample sizes being more representative of …

Climate influences the global distribution of sea turtle nesting

DA Pike - Global Ecology and Biogeography, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Aim To understand whether climate limits current sea turtle nesting distributions and shapes
the ecological niche of the terrestrial life‐history stage of these wide‐ranging marine …

Population stock structure of leatherback turtles (Dermochelys coriacea) in the Atlantic revealed using mtDNA and microsatellite markers

PH Dutton, SE Roden, KR Stewart, E LaCasella… - Conservation …, 2013 - Springer
This study presents a comprehensive genetic analysis of stock structure for leatherback
turtles (Dermochelys coriacea), combining 17 microsatellite loci and 763 bp of the mtDNA …

[HTML][HTML] Are coastal protected areas always effective in achieving population recovery for nesting sea turtles?

R Nel, AE Punt, GR Hughes - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Sea turtles are highly migratory and usually dispersed, but aggregate off beaches during the
nesting season, rendering them vulnerable to coastal threats. Consequently, coastal Marine …

[图书][B] The biology of sea turtles

J Wyneken, KJ Lohmann, JA Musick - 2013 - books.google.com
Since the first volume of The Biology of Sea Turtles was published in 1997, the field has
grown and matured in ways few of the authors would have predicted—particularly in the …

Resilience of marine turtle regional management units to climate change

MMPB Fuentes, DA Pike, A Dimatteo… - Global Change …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Enhancing species resilience to changing environmental conditions is often suggested as a
climate change adaptation strategy. To effectively achieve this, it is necessary first to …

Phenological response of sea turtles to environmental variation across a species' northern range

AD Mazaris, AS Kallimanis… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Variations in environmental parameters (eg temperature) that form part of global climate
change have been associated with shifts in the timing of seasonal events for a broad range …

Mitochondrial DNA reveals Pleistocenic colonisation of the Mediterranean by loggerhead turtles (Caretta caretta)

M Clusa, C Carreras, M Pascual… - Journal of Experimental …, 2013 - Elsevier
As the loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta) is a philopatric species with a strong genetic
structure, the analysis of mtDNA can be used to track evolutionary and colonisation events …

Spatio-temporal distribution and migration of adult male loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) in the Mediterranean Sea: further evidence of the importance of …

P Casale, D Freggi, A Cina, M Rocco - Marine Biology, 2013 - Springer
Ten adult male loggerhead sea turtles, captured by trawlers or dip nets, were satellite-
tracked from a neritic foraging ground in the Mediterranean in order to investigate adult …