Resident areas and migrations of female green turtles nesting at Buck Island Reef National Monument, St. Croix, US Virgin Islands
| Autor: | Hart, KM, Iverson, AR, Benscoter, AM, Fujisaki, I, Cherkiss, MS, Pollock, C, Lundgren, I, Hillis-Starr, Z |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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| Zdroj: | Endangered Species Research, Vol 32, Pp 89-101 (2017) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 1863-5407 1613-4796 |
| DOI: | 10.3354/esr00793 |
| Popis: | Satellite tracking studies can reveal much about turtlesí spatial use of breeding areas, migration zones, and foraging sites. We assessed spatial habitat-use patterns of 10 adult female green turtles Chelonia mydas nesting at Buck Island Reef National Monument (BIRNM), US Virgin Islands (USVI; 17∞47.4íN, 64∞37.2íW) from 2011 to 2014. Turtles ranged in size from 89.0 to 115.9 cm curved carapace length (CCL) (x̄ ± SD: 106.8 ± 7.7 cm). The inter-nesting period for all turtles ranged from 31 July to 4 November, and sizes of the 50% core-use areas ranged from 4.2 to 19.0 km2. We observed consistency of inter-nesting habitat-use patterns, with all turtles using near-shore ( |
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