Sentences with phrase «turtle population»

What is still unclear is whether or not sea turtle populations are being helped enough that they may recover after the substantial losses they're suffering.

The long - term variability of marine turtle populations remains poorly understood, limiting science and management.

There are immediate implications for marine turtle population ecology and management.

The findings don't let people off the hook, the authors say, but they do provide new insight into the ways climate can shape turtle populations.

By contrast, turtle population assessments often rely on models of adult population growth, entirely independent of environmental factors [31].

When they are cultivated properly by a stable turtle population then the system works.

TURTLE TROUBLE Green sea turtle populations in parts of the Great Barrier Reef are becoming increasingly female because their eggs are being incubated at higher temperatures due to warming ocean waters.

For the study, scientists caught green turtles at the Howick Group of islands where both northern and southern green turtle populations forage in the Great Barrier Reef.

More research is needed to fully understand the importance of basking and the effect climate change will have on basking behaviors of green turtle populations around the world.

Warming waters are turning some sea turtle populations female — to the extreme.

Warm the nesting beaches enough, and sea turtle populations with few to no male mates might get feminized to extinction, biologists have warned.

«Genetic research can alert us to the occurrence of inbreeding and its potential negative effects on turtle populations, and inform conservation strategies to save this species.»

Akumal means «place of the turtle» in Mayan, Akumal is renowned for its beautiful beaches and green sea turtle population making this oasis a premium snorkeling location.

That turtle had recently been released in the area to bolster the state - endangered turtle population in southwest Illinois.

In an ongoing effort to track bog turtle populations, biologists from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service spent several days visiting southern Appalachian bogs in western North Carolina.

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

Given that leatherback turtle populations have declined by 98 % in the past 40 years (mostly due to being caught in fishing nets), this migration map is crucial in helping to save leatherback lives: thanks to this map, the scientists have already singled out 11 countries that can be invited to help conserve this endangered species.

And as the coast warms, the northern male turtle population will find it harder to meet such breeding demands, the researchers fear.

These results suggest that turtle populations throughout the Atlantic Ocean could have been present during the spill and that further investigation of possible negative impacts to these populations is warranted.

Future studies should consider environmental baselines in assessments of marine turtle population variability and persistence.

Anthropogenic pressures are considered the major driver of marine turtle populations [13], [14], [15].

Though the ecological effects of these climate oscillations have been described in various settings, the influence of decadal indices to long - term marine turtle population trends is largely unexplored.

Outcomes from Mariana's study provide crucial information for the future management and conservation of sea turtle populations as climate change progresses.

Calis has its own water park and parts of the beach are also popular with the local turtle population, who come in to lay their eggs in the sand.

Located along what is known as «Sea Turtle Corridor», the island boasts a healthy turtle population with nesting and foraging areas for Hawksbills and Green Turtles

These islands are also home to the largest natural turtle population in Vietnam.

We know the Gilis have a great turtle population so it's important that we do not take them for granted.

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

Low Isles is famous for it resident turtle population, soft coral gardens and giant clams, sea cucumbers not to forget the chance of fining Nemo.

Bright blue waters, abundant marine life, healthy reefs, a thriving turtle population, resident dolphins and migrating pilot and sperm whales are definite highlights.

The Kemp's Ridley sea turtle sets itself apart from other turtle populations in several ways: They're the smallest of all the Gulf of Mexico turtle species, measuring only about 2 feet when fully grown; they're the world's most endangered sea turtle; and they're known for their synchronized nesting activities, called arribadas, in which hundreds or thousands of females come ashore on the same day to lay their eggs.

Faced with the probability that the project was likely to damage the Blanding's turtle population at Ostrander Point, the Tribunal overruled the provincial government and its ministries.

With warming global temperatures and most sea turtle populations naturally producing offspring above the pivotal temperature [14], it is clear that climate change poses a serious threat to the persistence of these populations.

Archeology indicates that the indigenous communities hunted the Arnavon hawksbill population for thousands of years without seriously impacting turtle populations.

Comparing the results of the two studies Eisernberg estimates «the decline in this pig - nosed turtle population to be more than 50 % since 1981... such a decline is likely to be widespread as the species is under similar pressures elsewhere in Papua New Guinea.»

So warming temperatures may cause the feminisation of sea turtle populations through the production of only female hatchlings.

Their study, titled Environmental Warming and Feminization of One of the Largest Sea Turtle Populations in the World, warns that global warming could turn the world's sea turtle populations female, possibly leading to their extinction.

A recent National Research Council (NRC) report concluded, for example, that advances in turtle population ecology will come primarily from improvements in monitoring human impacts [16].

Rated as one of the «Top 10 Beaches in Mexico» by TripAdvisor ® and with a name meaning «place of the turtle» in Mayan, Akumal is renowned for its beautiful beaches and green sea turtle population making this oasis a premium snorkeling location.

Our recent study published in Nature Climate Change found that by altering the sex ratio of turtle populations in favour of females, climate change could lead to a population increase in the short term.

More specifically, she investigated how the reproductive output and nesting grounds used by the northern Great Barrier Reef green turtle population will be affected by 1) increased temperature, 2) sea level rise, and 3) cyclonic activity.

The study authors, from NOAA's Marine Mammal and Turtle division in La Jolla, California, analyzed sea turtle populations on beaches at the northern and southern ends of Australia's Great Barrier Reef.

Environmental warming and feminization of one of the largest sea turtle populations in the world.

Sea turtle populations can get by with fewer males than females (SN: 3/4/17, p. 16), but scientists aren't sure how many is too few.

The steep declines in green turtle catch rates, the researchers maintain, indicate a potential decline of green turtle populations that use Nicaragua's foraging grounds, particularly smaller rookeries in the Caribbean.

The fisheries are an important source of finance, protein and cultural identity, but information can be scarce on their status — despite often being listed as one of the major threats to turtle populations.

These models were then used to assess observed changes in nest counts and to project future nesting trends in the Northwest Atlantic loggerhead sea turtle population, the largest in the world.

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.

In the 1980s and 1990s, 42 percent of all deaths of Florida panthers were caused by cars, and a recent study concluded that road mortality is so high that it may threaten the persistence of some turtle populations in the northeastern United States.

«Experts we surveyed found that entanglement in plastic and other pollution could pose a long term impact on the survival of some turtle populations and is a greater threat to them than oil spills.