The Green Turtle Status Review Team (SRT) has undertaken a review consistent with
section 4 (a)(1) of the Endangered Species Act (ESA), using the best available scientific …

Osteohistological data are commonly used to study the life history of extant and extinct
tetrapods. While recent advances have permitted detailed reconstructions of growth …

In the western Atlantic young sea turtles in their surface-pelagic juvenile stage, a stage often
described as the lost year (s), have been hypothesized to occupy habitat dominated by …

Although sea turtles have received substantial focus worldwide, research on the immature
life stages is still relatively limited. The latter is of particular importance, given that a large …

While the specific life histories of different species and populations vary to some extent, sea
turtles typically are long-lived, slow-growing, and wide-ranging, occupying multiple habitats …

Age at maturation data are integral to understanding dynamics of threatened and
endangered sea turtle populations. However, full characterization of this parameter requires …

Mediterranean populations of loggerhead Caretta caretta and green sea turtles Chelonia
mydas are subject to several anthropogenic threats, with documented mortality from …

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 …

For decades, fisheries have been managed to limit the accidental capture of vulnerable
species and many of these populations are now rebounding. While encouraging from a …

Characterization of a population of green turtles inhabiting the northeastern Gulf of Mexico
was made possible by the mortality of a subset of> 4500 sea turtles that stranded during a …