학술논문
Resident areas and migrations of female green turtles nesting at Buck Island Reef National Monument, St. Croix, US Virgin Islands
Document Type
article
Author
Source
Endangered Species Research, Vol 32, Pp 89-101 (2017)
Subject
Language
English
ISSN
1863-5407
1613-4796
1613-4796
Abstract
Satellite tracking studies can reveal much about turtlesí spatial use of breeding areas, migration zones, and foraging sites. We assessed spatial habitat-use patterns of 10 adult female green turtles Chelonia mydas nesting at Buck Island Reef National Monument (BIRNM), US Virgin Islands (USVI; 17∞47.4íN, 64∞37.2íW) from 2011 to 2014. Turtles ranged in size from 89.0 to 115.9 cm curved carapace length (CCL) (x̄ ± SD: 106.8 ± 7.7 cm). The inter-nesting period for all turtles ranged from 31 July to 4 November, and sizes of the 50% core-use areas ranged from 4.2 to 19.0 km2. We observed consistency of inter-nesting habitat-use patterns, with all turtles using near-shore (