Climate change and marine turtles: recent advances and future directions

AR Patrício, LA Hawkes, JR Monsinjon… - Endangered Species …, 2021 - int-res.com
Climate change is a threat to marine turtles that is expected to affect all of their life stages. To
guide future research, we conducted a review of the most recent literature on this topic …

Toward a coordinated global observing system for seagrasses and marine macroalgae

JE Duffy, L Benedetti-Cecchi, J Trinanes… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
In coastal waters around the world, the dominant primary producers are benthic
macrophytes, including seagrasses and macroalgae, that provide habitat structure and food …

Envisioning the future of aquatic animal tracking: technology, science, and application

RJ Lennox, K Aarestrup, SJ Cooke, PD Cowley… - …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Electronic tags are significantly improving our understanding of aquatic animal behavior and
are emerging as key sources of information for conservation and management practices …

Satellite tracking sea turtles: Opportunities and challenges to address key questions

GC Hays, LA Hawkes - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Over 25 years ago the first satellite tracking studies of sea turtles were published. The
technology and attachment methods have now come of age with long-term tracks over a …

Perspectives on using marine species as bioindicators of plastic pollution

G Bonanno, M Orlando-Bonaca - Marine pollution bulletin, 2018 - Elsevier
The ever-increasing level of marine pollution due to plastic debris is a globally recognized
threat that needs effective actions of control and mitigation. Using marine organisms as …

First Atlantic satellite tracks of 'lost years' green turtles support the importance of the Sargasso Sea as a sea turtle nursery

KL Mansfield, J Wyneken, J Luo - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
In-water behaviour and long-term movements of oceanic-stage juvenile sea turtles are not
well described or quantified. This is owing to technological or logistical limitations of tracking …

Informing research priorities for immature sea turtles through expert elicitation

NE Wildermann, C Gredzens, L Avens… - Endangered Species …, 2018 - int-res.com
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 …

Monitoring pelagic Sargassum inundation potential for coastal communities

J Trinanes, NF Putman, G Goni, C Hu… - Journal of Operational …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Pelagic Sargassum is a buoyant macroalgae that forms rafts at the ocean surface and
serves as a biologically rich habitat for hundreds of diverse marine species. Since 2011 …

Plastic ingestion in post-hatchling sea turtles: assessing a major threat in Florida near shore waters

CB Eastman, JA Farrell, L Whitmore… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Pollution from anthropogenic marine debris, particularly buoyant plastics, is ubiquitous
across marine ecosystems. Due to the persistent nature of plastics in the environment, their …

Ocean currents and marine life

GC Hays - Current Biology, 2017 - cell.com
Ocean currents have many profound impacts on marine life, moving not only animals and
plants around the ocean but also redistributing heat and nutrients. While some of these …