[PDF][PDF] A pulse check for trends in sea turtle numbers across the globe

GC Hays, G Schofield, M Papazekou, A Chatzimentor… - iScience, 2024 - cell.com
Population declines of vertebrates are common, but rebuilding marine life may be possible.
We assessed trends in sea turtle numbers globally, building 61 time series of abundance …

[HTML][HTML] Identifying biomarkers of pollutant exposure in ocean sentinels: Characterisation and optimisation of B-esterases in plasma from loggerhead turtles …

S Omedes, JL Crespo-Picazo, NJ Robinson… - Chemosphere, 2024 - Elsevier
Sea turtles are frequently proposed as indicator species for assessing ocean health. To
faciliate the use of these species as bioindicators requires the development of tools for …

The Ionian Sea in the eastern Mediterranean: Critical year-round habitats for sea turtles and diverse marine megafauna, spanning all life stages and genders

M Papazekou, C Dimitriadis, D Dalla, CM Comis… - Ocean & Coastal …, 2024 - Elsevier
Conserving marine megafauna is a complex task, particularly due to the gaps in our
knowledge regarding their distribution and susceptibility to human pressures. While the …

Long‐term (29‐year) spatiotemporal patterns of sea turtle deaths in the southern Gulf of Mexico

V Guzmán‐Hernández… - Aquatic …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Sea turtles are key imperilled species that interact with numerous threats in their critical in‐
water and inland habitats, which they occupy along their complex life cycle. Therefore …

[HTML][HTML] Critical areas for sea turtles in Northeast Brazil: a participatory approach for a data-poor context

YCBB de Oliveira, DN Rivera, LC de Alagão Querido… - PeerJ, 2024 - peerj.com
Fishing is one of the main threats to sea turtles due to the risk of entanglement in lost nets,
vessel collision and mortality due to incidental catches. In Brazil, most of the studies …

Tracking nest-rescued green sea turtles in oceanic currents sheds light on eastern Caribbean “lost years”

JJ Levenson, R Cooper, A Weissman, D Bell… - Frontiers in Amphibian …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Although sea turtles are well-studied charismatic marine species, little is known about the
juvenile stage, especially the oceanic phase between hatching on their natal beaches and …