Sea turtles in the eastern margin of the North Atlantic: the northern Ibero-Moroccan Gulf as an important neritic area for sea turtles
| Autor: | Juan Antonio Camiñas, José Carlos Báez, Juan Jesús Bellido López, Estefanía Torreblanca |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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loggerhead turtles
Environmental Engineering strandings south Iberian Peninsula Sede Central IEO Aquatic Science Oceanography Lepidochelys kempi law.invention law gulf of Cádiz Pesquerías Turtle (robot) Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics Primary productivity geography geography.geographical_feature_category biology Strait of Gibraltar Continental shelf Significant part biology.organism_classification Fishery Habitat leatherback turtles Period (geology) Sea turtles |
| Zdroj: | e-IEO. Repositorio Institucional Digital de Acceso Abierto del Instituto Español de Oceanografía instname Mediterranean Marine Science; Τόμ. 19 Αρ. 3 (2018); 662-672 Mediterranean Marine Science; Vol. 19 No. 3 (2018); 662-672 |
| ISSN: | 1791-6763 1108-393X |
| DOI: | 10.12681/mms.15835 |
| Popis: | This study summarizes nearly 20 years (1997-2015) of tracking strandings of sea turtles along the Andalusian coast. In this period 2495 specimens were recorded, most of them loggerhead turtles Caretta caretta (92.6%) and leatherback turtles Demochelys coriacea (7.1%). Two other species were almost insinificant, green turtle Chelonia mydas (0.2%) and Kemp’s ridley Lepidochelys kempi (0.1%). Significant part of the turtles were recorded in the Atlantic coast, although in this area the incidence of alive specimens was low. Spring and summer were the seasons with more specimens stranded, probably related to warmer and more productive waters. The size of the loggerhead turtles observed highlights an important presence of inmature specimens in Andalusian waters, although mature individuals were not rare. In the case of leatherback turtles, adult stage is the only detected in the specimens recorded. These results, combined with the fact that the Atlantic coast has a large continental shelf and a high primary productivity near the coast, suggesting that the gulf of Cádiz may represent a neritic habitat used by the sea turtles. In this case, new and more effective politics of conservation are needed in order to protect sea turtles in this area. Sí |
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