Long-term conservation efforts contribute to positive green turtle Chelonia mydas nesting trend at Tortuguero, Costa Rica

By Sebastian Tröeng, E. Rankin. 2005

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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In Global and Planetary Change

1. G. Hays
2. Bj Godley
3. AC Broderick
4. M. Chaloupka
5. Michael S. Coyne
6. C. Limpus
7. Sebastian Tröeng
8. MJ Witt

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. G. Hays
2. M. Chaloupka
3. Bj Godley
4. AC Broderick
5. C. Limpus
6. Sebastian Tröeng
7. K. Bjorndal
8. A. Bolten

Citations in the corpus

• Are green turtles globally endangered (2006, result): “For example, while the MTSG assessment calculates the Tortuguero population of green turtles as having increased by 100% since the 1970s, more recent data (Troëng & Rankin, 2005) suggest that an increase of nearer 250% has occurred.”
• Variation in adult annual survival probability and remigration intervals of sea turtles (2007, background): “The Tortuguero green turtle rookery represents a recovering population (Solow et al. 2002; Troëng and Rankin 2005) and hence breeding output should be high as sea turtles do not appear to suffer from the Allee effect (Hays 2004).”
• Encouraging outlook for recovery of a once severely exploited marine megaherbivore (2008, background): “The long-term increase in green turtle nester or nest abundance shown here for the four Pacific (Fig. 1) and two Atlantic rookeries (Fig. 2) is due mainly to protection over recent decades from human exploitation (Ehrhart & Bagley, 1999; Limpus et al ., 2003; Weishampel et al . 2003; Balazs & Chalou”
• Satellite tracking highlights the need for international cooperation in marine turtle management (2006, background): “…for other Caribbean rookeries: a density-dependent effect on foraging grounds (Bjorndal et al. 2000) may have facilitated compensatory population growth in extant Caribbean green turtle rookeries, such as Tortuguero, which has experienced a positive population trend (Troëng & Rankin 2005).”
• Migration of green turtles Chelonia mydas from Tortuguero, Costa Rica (2005, background): “The largest remaining green turtle rookery in the Atlantic is at Tortuguero Beach, Costa Rica (N10 35.51 W83 31.40 to N10 21.46 W83 23.41) (Troëng and Rankin 2005).”
• Conservation status of the loggerhead sea turtle in Brazil: an encouraging outlook (2007, background): “…egg poaching, to help recover depleted Atlantic sea turtles populations has also been shown recently for a green turtle nesting population at Tortuguero, Costa Rica (Troëng & Rankin 2005) and for a leatherback turtle nesting population at St. Croix, US Virgin Islands (Dutton et al. 2005).”
• Estimation of age at maturation and growth of Atlantic green turtles (Chelonia mydas) using skeletochronology (2010, background): “Given our estimates of 30–44 years to maturation, it is possible that those turtles that were juveniles when protected by the Endangered Species Act in 1978 may now be contributing to the populations of nesting adults for which a positive trend has recently been detected (Troëng and Rankin 2005; Cha”
• Marine turtles and IUCN Red Listing: A review of the process, the pitfalls, and novel assessment approaches (2008, background): “Even in science, we are guilty of sustaining the misconception, as the terms Threatened or Endangered are commonly found in the opening paragraphs in many peer-reviewed papers on marine turtles when describing the species' status, even though the specific populations under study have often been anyt”
• Migration of hawksbill turtles Eretmochelys imbricata from Tortuguero, Costa Rica (2005, background): “at Tortuguero since 1971 (Troëng and Rankin 2005).”
• Unravelling migratory connectivity in marine turtles using multiple methods (2010, background): “As a result, the species is of high conservation concern, although some popula- tions are rebounding following the reduction of direct take (Balazs & Chaloupka 2004, Tröeng & Rankin 2005; Broderick et al. 2006).”
• Extinction risk and bottlenecks in the conservation of charismatic marine species (2012, background): “Early efforts to reduce direct exploitation on land have led to increases in local populations (Troëng & Rankin 2005), and recent evidence from U.S. fisheries suggests that significant reductions in mortality also can be made at sea (Finkbeiner et al. 2011).”