Eight Nests Recorded for a Loggerhead Turtle Within One Season

One of the objectives of monitoring sea turtle nesting beaches is to calculate the number of reproductive females nesting in a given year. Difficulties inherent in adequately calculating this value include tag loss, incomplete capture-recapture records, variation in remigration schedules, variable f...

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Published in:Journal of rehabilitation research and development 2006-06, Vol.43 (3), p.16-17
Main Author: Tucker, AD
Format: Article
Language:English
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Summary:One of the objectives of monitoring sea turtle nesting beaches is to calculate the number of reproductive females nesting in a given year. Difficulties inherent in adequately calculating this value include tag loss, incomplete capture-recapture records, variation in remigration schedules, variable female reproductive output, and especially unrecorded nesting events occurring outside the sampling area. To overcome many of these acknowledged problems, a more rigorous determination of within season clutch frequency can be derived by deploying satellite tags to track nesting females. This approach requires that female sea turtles be instrumented at their first nesting and followed through all inter-nesting intervals until a final nest is laid and then observe a post-reproductive migration.
ISSN:0748-7711