26th Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation (2006)

Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation Island of Crete , Greece , 3 - 8 April 2006

This publication should be cited as follows: Frick, M., Panagopoulou A., Rees A. F. and K. Williams (compilers). 2006. Book of Abstracts. Twenty Sixth Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation. International Sea Turtle Society, Athens, Greece. 376 pp. This publication can be freely downloaded from: http://www.seaturtle.org/ists/ Hard copies can be obtained by writing to: ARCHELON,...

Noaa Technical Memorandum Nmfs-sefsc-477 Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation

Sea Turtle and Pelagic Fish Sensory Biology: Developing Techniques to Reduce Sea Turtle Bycatch in Longline Fisheries

submitted to the 25 Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation. Night-time spectral sensitivity of adult female leatherback sea turtles Levenson, D.H., Eckert, S.A. Crognale, M.A., Duhamel, P., Kubis, S.A. and Harms, C.A. Flicker electroretinography (ERG) was used to measure the spectral sensitivity of adult female leatherback sea turtles in vivo on a nesting beach on the southern Caribbe...

Global sea turtle conservation successes

We document a tendency for published estimates of population size in sea turtles to be increasing rather than decreasing across the globe. To examine the population status of the seven species of sea turtle globally, we obtained 299 time series of annual nesting abundance with a total of 4417 annual estimates. The time series ranged in length from 6 to 47 years (mean, 16.2 years). When levels o...

Predicting the distribution of oceanic-stage Kemp's ridley sea turtles.

The inaccessibility of open ocean habitat and the cryptic nature of small animals are fundamental problems when assessing the distribution of oceanic-stage sea turtles and other marine animals sharing similar life-history traits. Most methods that estimate patterns of abundance cannot be applied in situations that are extremely data limited. Here, we use a movement ecology framework to generate...