A5029578072- Turtle Biology and Conservation
- Amphibian and Reptile Biology
- Ichthyology and Marine Biology
- Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Avian ecology and behavior
- Crustacean biology and ecology
- Multiple Sclerosis Research Studies
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Marine animal studies overview
- Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
- Disability Education and Employment
- Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Family and Disability Support Research
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
- Cerebral Palsy and Movement Disorders
- Autoimmune and Inflammatory Disorders Research
- Venomous Animal Envenomation and Studies
- Retirement, Disability, and Employment
- Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology
- Physiological and biochemical adaptations
- Optimism, Hope, and Well-being
- Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Resilience and Mental Health
- Marine Ecology and Invasive Species
University of North Carolina Wilmington
2023
Clinical Research Atlanta
2013-2022
Sea Turtle Conservancy
2012-2022
University of Florida
2012-2022
Madison Group (United States)
2019
University of Wisconsin–Madison
2013-2017
The University of Texas at Arlington
2012
Centre d'Etudes Biologiques de Chizé
2012
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
2012
Universidad Nacional
2012
Sea turtles are an iconic group of marine megafauna that have been exposed to multiple anthropogenic threats across their different life stages, especially in the past decades. This has resulted population declines, and consequently many sea turtle populations now classified as threatened or endangered globally. Although some worldwide showing early signs recovery, still face fundamental threats. is problematic since important ecological roles. To encourage informed conservation planning...
Assessments of population trends based on time-series counts individuals are complicated by imperfect detection, which can lead to serious misinterpretations data. Population threatened marine turtles worldwide usually nests or nesting females. We analyze 39 years nest-count, female-count, and capture-mark-recapture (CMR) data for loggerhead (Caretta caretta) Wassaw Island, Georgia, USA. Annual females, not corrected yield significant, positive in abundance. However, multistate open robust...
Relocation of eggs is a common strategy for conservation declining reptilian populations around the world. If individuals exhibit consistency in their nest-site selection and if heritable trait, relocating deposited vulnerable locations may impose artificial that would maintain traits favoring unsuccessful selection. Conversely, most scatter nesting effort consistently select nest sites are uncommon, then be less concern. During 2005 season loggerhead turtles (Caretta caretta) at Mon Repos...
Abstract Plastic has emerged as an abundant, stable substratum for oceanic dispersal of organisms via rafting. However, the ecological mechanisms underlying community diversity on plastic debris remain poorly understood. On a cruise from California to Hawai’i, we surveyed debris, some likely originating 2011 Tōhoku tsunami, examine relationship between rafting and both habitat area stalked barnacle ( Lepas spp.) abundance. For sessile taxa richness, observed interaction in which positive...
Recent investigations of water balance in sea snakes demonstrated that amphibious kraits (Laticauda spp.) dehydrate seawater and require fresh to restore deficits body water. Here, we report similar findings for Pelamis platurus, a viviparous, pelagic, entirely marine species hydrophiine ("true") snake. We sampled at Golfo de Papagayo, Guanacaste, Costa Rica they do not drink but variable incurred by dehydration. The threshold dehydration which first is −18.3 ± 1.1 % (mean SE) loss mass,...
Abstract ContextMarine turtle eggs incubate in dynamic beaches, where they are vulnerable to both saltwater and freshwater flooding. Understanding the capacity for marine tolerate flooding will aid management efforts predict mitigate impacts of climate change, including sea-level rise increases coastal AimsEvaluate interactive effects duration incubation stage on hatching success loggerhead (Caretta caretta) eggs. MethodsGroups 20 from multiple clutches were incubated plastic containers a...
Abstract A survey of the epibionts inhabiting carapace loggerhead sea turtles Caretta caretta (Linnaeus) nesting on Canaveral National Seashore, Florida was conducted from 2003–2004. Epibionts were sampled and identified to lowest taxonomic level possible. Eleven newly documented epibiont species observed 52 individual loggerheads. We present first records urchins as epibionts. Data are presented behavioural, physical, ecological characteristics some these understand better relationship...
OBJECTIVE: To examine the effect of college or university training on earnings individuals with disabilities receiving services through public vocational rehabilitation system. METHODS: A non-experimental case-control study design. Data for 17
Nesting beach management is a vital element of the population recovery efforts for vulnerable loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) across globe. In southeast United Sates, nests are threatened by numerous anthropogenic and natural threats, including predation eggs native non-native predators. We analyzed nest other egg; loss using an exceptional 10-year data set (2009–2018) that covered nesting beaches on 12 islands Georgia coast. Our objectives were to 1) determine which predators cause...
The feeding systems of durophagous vertebrates are well suited for studying how the performance structures is affected by growth. For these animals, that deviate from isometric growth (i.e. allometry) may be biologically meaningful in terms disproportionate increases bite-force generation across ontogeny. We measured body size, cranial morphology and an ontogenetic series loggerhead musk turtles Sternotherus minor compared scaling coefficients with predictions based on isometry. found...
Competition for space drives many marine propagules to colonize the external surfaces of other organisms, a phenomenon known as epibiosis. Epibiosis appears be universal among sea turtles and an extensive body scientific literature exists describing turtle-epibiont interactions. When viewed in isolation, however, these epibiont “species lists” provide limited insights into factors driving patterns taxonomic diversity on global scale. We conducted exhaustive review collate information...
The yellow-bellied sea snake, Pelamis platurus (Elapidae, Hydrophiinae), has the largest distribution of any snake species, and patterns related to its regional color variation suggest there is population structuring in this species. Here, we use mitochondrial (ND4, Cyt-b) nuclear (RAG-1) DNA (1) test whether genetic associated with local pattern, (2) assess large-scale are correlated geographic across Pacific Ocean. We found low levels shallow structure that pattern distribution. divergence...
Carbon and nitrogen stable isotope (δ13C δ15N) analysis has been used to elucidate foraging migration behaviours of endangered sea turtle populations. Isotopic tissue samples from nesting females can provide information about their locations before reproduction. To determine whether loggerhead (Caretta caretta) eggs a good proxy for maternal values, we addressed the following three objectives: (i) evaluated isotopic effects ethanol preservation lipid extraction on yolk; (ii) examined offset...
Abstract Population differentiation and diversification depend in large part on the ability propensity of organisms to successfully disperse. However, our understanding these processes with high dispersal is biased by limited genetic resolution offered traditional genotypic markers. Many neustonic animals disperse not only as pelagic larvae, but also juveniles adults while drifting or rafting at surface open ocean. In theory, heightened should limit opportunities for species population...
BACKGROUND: There is a persistent gap in the employment rate of working-age people with disabilities and those without disabilities, outcomes differing across impairment groups by demographics. OBJECTIVE: Our goal to identify differences