Endangered Green Turtles (Chelonia mydas) of the Northern Mariana Islands: Nesting Ecology, Poaching, and Climate Concerns

Endangered Green Turtles (Chelonia mydas) of the Northern Mariana Islands: Nesting Ecology, Poaching, and Climate Concerns

Marine turtles in the western Pacific remain threatened by anthropogenic impacts, but the region lacks long-term biological data for assessing conservation status and trends. The Central West Pacific (CWP) population of green turtles (Chelonia mydas) was listed as Endangered by the U.S. in 2016, hig...

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Main Authors: Tammy M. Summers, Summer L. Martin, Jessy R. Hapdei, Joseph K. Ruak, T. Todd Jones
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-01-01
Series:Frontiers in Marine Science
Subjects:
Central West Pacific
sea turtles
population assessment
nesting demographic data
nest temperature
climate change
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmars.2017.00428/full

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