Intensive and wide-ranging beach surveys uncover temporal and spatial stranding patterns of marine megafauna

JHF Prado, NW Daudt, MS Perez… - ICES Journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We describe the temporal and spatial patterns of three tetrapod groups (sea turtles,
seabirds, and cetaceans) stranded in southeast Brazil, based on daily beach surveys of …

A macroplastic vulnerability index for marine mammals, seabirds, and sea turtles in Hawai 'i

EL Murphy, LR Gerber, CM Rochman… - Science of the Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Plastic pollution is having devastating consequences for marine organisms across the
planet. However, the population level effects of macroplastic pollution remain difficult and …

High incidence of sea turtle stranding in the southwestern Atlantic Ocean

M Cantor, AS Barreto, RM Taufer… - ICES Journal of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Sea turtles are globally threatened due to short-and long-term exposure to anthropogenic
activities. Many life-history traits make it difficult to study these species in the wild. Stranding …

Evaluation of sea turtle morbidity and mortality within the Indian Ocean from 12 years of data shows high prevalence of ghost net entanglement

K Himpson, S Dixon, T Le Berre - Plos one, 2023 - journals.plos.org
Anthropogenic activities can negatively affect sea turtle populations. Quantifying the effect of
human actions on these threatened species can help guide management strategies to …

Spatial distribution of sea turtles on South Atlantic subtropical reefs

J Mello-Fonseca, CAMM Cordeiro… - Marine Ecology Progress …, 2021 - int-res.com
Environmental conditions have a strong influence on sea turtle population dynamics. Sea
turtles spend most of their lives in foraging areas; however, there is a lack of information on …

Sea turtle stranding records and fishing interactions on an Oceanic Atlantic Island (Tenerife, Canary Islands)

C Hurtado-Pampín, R De la Cruz-Modino… - Journal of the Marine …, 2024 - cambridge.org
Sea turtle populations have significantly declined in recent years due to anthropogenic
causes. Historical stranding records in the Canary Islands archipelago (Spain) reveal a high …

Patterns and spatial distribution of sea turtle strandings in Alagoas, Brazil

EM Bernieri, LS Medeiros, UH Lopes, FGV Boas… - Marine Pollution …, 2024 - Elsevier
This study makes a descriptive analysis of necropsied sea turtles registered in the Biota
Conservation Institute database between May 2018 and May 2022 on the coast of Alagoas …

Spatio-temporal variability among loggerhead turtle, Caretta caretta, strandings off southern Brazil

GF da Fonseca, MK Broadhurst… - ICES Journal of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Since 2015, Brazilian legislation governing resource extraction in the Santos Basin has
required daily monitoring of beaches (∼ 1490 km) in Rio de Janeiro (RJ), São Paulo (SP) …

[HTML][HTML] Assessment of the ingestion of anthropogenic debris by green turtles along the south-central coast of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

BG Gomes, SM Guimarães, AB Tagliolatto… - Ocean and Coastal …, 2024 - SciELO Brasil
Among the various forms of pollution, anthropogenic debris has been widely documented to
cause entanglement and premature death of sea turtles, in addition to being ingested by …

Anthropogenic threats associated with mortality and biomass of stranded sea turtles on the northern coast of São Paulo State, Brazil

VL Nunes, CHG Cutrim… - International Journal …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Beach monitoring programmes along the Brazilian coast in recent years have provided
stranding data which can be analysed to show the effects of human impacts on sea turtle …