Relation of Temperature, Moisture, Salinity, and Slope to Nest Site Selection in Loggerhead Sea Turtles

By Daniel W. Wood, K. Bjorndal. Copeia, 2000

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Climate influences the global distribution of sea turtle nesting (2013, background): “Sea turtles also select a wide range of physical or environmental factors at local spatial scales (e.g. Mortimer, 1990; Wood & Bjorndal, 2000).”
The significance of predation in nest site selection of turtles: an experimental consideration of macro- and microhabitat preferences (2003, background): “Similarly if a female nests too far from shore, her risk of direct predation increases, as does offspring mortality because hatchlings must spend more time traversing over land to the water (Wood and Bjorndal 2000).”
Nest site selection in leatherbacks, Dermochelys coriacea: individual patterns and their consequences (2004, background): “Problems may also arise when nests are laid too near the supralittoral vegetation, as roots may penetrate into the nest chambers and destroy the eggs (Wood & Bjorndal 2000).”
Analysis of nest occupancy and nest reproduction in two sympatric raptors: common buzzard Buteo buteo and goshawk Accipiter gentilis (2002, background): “Selection of a nest site can be viewed as an adaptive trade-off between the cost for searching and defending the site and the reproductive benefits of selecting a site enhancing reproductive success (Pulliam 1989, Wood and Bjorndal 2000 ).”
Spatiotemporal patterns of annual sea turtle nesting behaviors along an East Central Florida beach (2003, methodology): “Perhaps there is even a finer-scale behavior related to microsite conditions, e.g. sand temperature or presence of vegetation on dunes, which determines the final nest-site choice (Stoneburner and Richardson, 1981; Wood and Bjorndal, 2000).”