Marine environmental monitoring with unmanned vehicle platforms: Present applications and future prospects

S Yuan, Y Li, F Bao, H Xu, Y Yang, Q Yan… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Basic monitoring of the marine environment is crucial for the early warning and assessment
of marine hydrometeorological conditions, climate change, and ecosystem disasters. In …

A review of how the biology of male sea turtles may help mitigate female-biased hatchling sex ratio skews in a warming climate

GC Hays, T Shimada, G Schofield - Marine biology, 2022 - Springer
In a warming climate, male sea turtles may become increasingly rare due to temperature-
dependent sex determination with females being produced at warmer temperatures. Hence …

Key issues in assessing threats to sea turtles: knowledge gaps and future directions

MMPB Fuentes, E McMichael, CY Kot… - Endangered Species …, 2023 - int-res.com
Sea turtles are an iconic group of marine megafauna that have been exposed to multiple
anthropogenic threats across their different life stages, especially in the past decades. This …

Unoccupied aerial video (UAV) surveys as alternatives to BRUV surveys for monitoring elasmobranch species in coastal waters

AJ McIvor, JLY Spaet, CT Williams… - ICES Journal of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Effective conservation strategies are founded by baseline information on abundance and
diversity estimates. Method choice can influence the success of baseline surveys as method …

[PDF][PDF] 3D model construction and ecological environment investigation on a regional scale using UAV remote sensing

C Chen, Y Chen, H Jin, L Chen, Z Liu… - Intell. Autom. Soft …, 2023 - cdn.techscience.cn
The acquisition of digital regional-scale information and ecological environmental data has
high requirements for structural texture, spatial resolution, and multiple parameter …

[HTML][HTML] Global trends in sea turtle research and conservation: Using symposium abstracts to assess past biases and future opportunities

NJ Robinson, J Aguzzi, S Arias, C Gatto… - Global Ecology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
We quantified research trends in the field of sea turtle science by collating data from 30
years of abstracts presented annually at the International Sea Turtle Symposium–the largest …

Combining UAVs and multi-sensor dataloggers to estimate fine-scale sea turtle density at foraging areas: a case study in the central Mediterranean

C Agabiti, L Tolve, G Baldi, M Zucchini… - Endangered Species …, 2024 - int-res.com
Knowledge of the distribution and density of marine species is key to understanding habitat
use and interactions with human activities. Yet such information for sea turtles remains …

A Review of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Usage as an Environmental Survey Tool within Tidal Stream Environments

J Slingsby, BE Scott, L Kregting, J McIlvenny… - Journal of Marine …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Tidal energy is a rapidly developing area of the marine renewable energy sector that
requires converters to be placed within areas of fast current speeds to be commercially …

Aerial drones reveal the dynamic structuring of sea turtle breeding aggregations and minimum survey effort required to capture climatic and sex-specific effects

LCD Dickson, H Tugwell, KA Katselidis… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Quantifying how animals use key habitats and resources for their survival allows managers
to optimise conservation planning; however, obtaining representative sample sizes of …

[HTML][HTML] Assessment of feeding grounds for loggerhead and green turtles in Korean water through stranding and bycatch data

IK Park, D Park, IH Kim - Biological Conservation, 2025 - Elsevier
Understanding occurrence patterns and the quantitative size of populations is essential to
protect sea turtles. Here, we analyzed stranding and bycatch data to investigate the habitat …