Marine turtles occupy a wide range of terrestrial and marine habitats, and many aspects of
their life history have been demonstrated to be closely tied to climatic variables such as …

Las tortugas marinas son reptiles que solamente salen al medio terrestre para realizar la
puesta y ésta se realiza en unas pocas playas de las regiones subtropicales y templadas …

The wildlife trade is a major cause of species loss and a pathway for disease transmission.
Socioeconomic drivers of the wildlife trade are influential at the local scale yet rarely …

Incidental capture in fisheries threatens many marine vertebrates, however, conservation
cannot be effective without identifying major sources of mortality. For the critically …

Analyses of mitochondrial (mt) DNA control region sequences from 175 leatherback turtles
Dermochelys coriacea from 10 nesting colonies revealed shallow phylogenetic structuring of …

Large annual fluctuations are seen in breeding numbers in many populations of non–annual
breeders. We examined the interannual variation in nesting numbers of populations of green …

This book presents a comparative view of chelonian reproduction and discusses
ecophysiological implications for their captive breeding. Chelonians, with their protective …

We collected data on nesting ecology and identified individual turtles that nested at Parque
Nacional Las Baulas, Costa Rica, one of the few remaining nesting sites for Pacific …

This article employs political ecology and common property theory to examine sea turtle
conservation, how it is articulated and executed at different sociopolitical and geographic …

The Florida coastline from Melbourne Beach to Wabasso Beach is one the most important
nesting areas for loggerhead turtles (Caretta caretta) in the Western Hemisphere and for …