Sentences with phrase «ocean turtle population»

Ostional's international fame is due to the teeming ocean turtle population that shows up regularly to lay eggs here.

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Scientists have known that warming ocean waters are skewing sea turtle populations toward having more females, but quantifying the imbalance has been hard.

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Saba, who has conducted modeling studies on the impacts of climate change on endangered leatherback turtles in the eastern Pacific Ocean, says the Northwest Atlantic loggerhead study offers a new approach in understanding how climate variability affects sea turtle populations.

Around five million years ago, the loggerhead turtle was globally distributed in the Atlantic and the Pacific, until the rise of the Isthmus of Panama split the population into two groups (one in each ocean).

Researchers investigating the impacts of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on sea turtles found that over 320,000 juvenile sea turtles from populations throughout the Atlantic Ocean were likely present in the northern Gulf of Mexico during the 87 - day oil spill.

Extreme Nature Tours conducts these tours in areas in which the population of turtles is highest to give visitors the opportunity to watch these graceful creatures get their young ready to embark on their challenge - filled lives in the ocean.

Accessible only by boat or plane, this roadless wilderness of ocean, river, rainforest, and the jungle is home to 3 types of nesting sea turtles, an incredibly diverse bird population, Jaguars and howler monkeys, and of course, world - class Tarpon and Snook fishing.

After the meal a presentation on Sea Turtles was shared with the guests, mentioned the species living in our oceans, behavioral traces, reproduction and some concern regarding population reduction.

The world's oceans are changing at an unprecedented pace, and scientists» methods for assessing sea turtle populations must evolve rapidly too.

«Hawksbill turtles (Eretmochelys imbricata) are critically endangered and the majority of hawksbill habitat use and movement research to date has been centred in the Wider Caribbean and Indo - Paciï ¬ c regions... As recently as 2007, hawksbills were considered functionally extirpated in the eastern Paciï ¬ c Ocean, based on scarce reports of their presence and the sparse coral reef distribution in the region... This study represents the ï ¬ rst initiative to track individuals from this remnant hawksbill population and describes novel habitat use that will inform regional conservation efforts.»