Satellite tracking in sea turtles: How do we find our way to the conservation dividends?

VF Jeffers, BJ Godley - Biological Conservation, 2016 - Elsevier
As species of conservation concern, sea turtles have historically been difficult to study
because of their elusive nature and extensive ranges, but improvements in telemetry have …

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 …

Plastic pollution and small juvenile marine turtles: a potential evolutionary trap

EM Duncan, AC Broderick, K Critchell… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The ingestion of plastic by marine turtles is now reported for all species. Small juvenile
turtles (including post-hatchling and oceanic juveniles) are thought to be most at risk, due to …

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 …

First satellite tracks of South Atlantic sea turtle 'lost years': seasonal variation in trans-equatorial movement

KL Mansfield, ML Mendilaharsu… - … of the Royal …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
In the South Atlantic Ocean, few data exist regarding the dispersal of young oceanic sea
turtles. We characterized the movements of laboratory-reared yearling loggerhead turtles …

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 …

The use of mesoscale eddies by juvenile loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) in the southwestern Atlantic

P Gaube, C Barceló, DJ McGillicuddy Jr, A Domingo… - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Marine animals, such as turtles, seabirds and pelagic fishes, are observed to travel and
congregate around eddies in the open ocean. Mesoscale eddies, large swirling ocean …

Shared habitat use by juveniles of three sea turtle species

MM Lamont, AR Iverson - Marine Ecology Progress Series, 2018 - int-res.com
The first step in understanding how sympatric species share habitat is defining spatial
boundaries. While home range data for juvenile sea turtles exists, few studies have …

Multiple-threats analysis for loggerhead sea turtles in the southwest Atlantic Ocean

M López-Mendilaharsu, B Giffoni, D Monteiro… - Endangered Species …, 2020 - int-res.com
Priority-setting approaches for widely distributed and long-lived species can be challenging.
This is especially true for sea turtles, which are species of conservation concern. The aim of …

Incidental capture and mortality of sea turtles in the industrial double‐rig‐bottom trawl fishery in south‐eastern Brazil

AB Tagliolatto, B Giffoni, S Guimarães… - Aquatic …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Incidental capture by fisheries is one of the principal threats to sea turtles. This study
analysed spatial and temporal patterns of sea turtle bycatch, and estimated the direct initial …