Encouraging outlook for recovery of a once severely exploited marine megaherbivore

By M. Chaloupka, K. Bjorndal, G. Balazs, A. Bolten, L. Ehrhart, C. Limpus, H. Suganuma, Sebastian Tröeng, Manami Yamaguchi. 2008

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Subfields: Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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In Ecology

1. G. Hays
2. Bj Godley
3. AC Broderick
4. M. Chaloupka
5. G. Schofield
6. M. Hamann
7. P. Luschi
8. P. Casale

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. G. Hays
2. Bj Godley
3. AC Broderick
4. M. Chaloupka
5. P. Casale
6. P. Luschi
7. G. Schofield
8. K. Bjorndal

Citations in the corpus

• Herbivory on freshwater and marine macrophytes: A review and perspective (2016, background): “Although many reptilian herbivores remain endangered, certain species such as the green turtle (Chelonia mydas) have recently shown signs of population recovery in response to three decades of conservation efforts (Chaloupka et al., 2008).”
• Ontogeny in marine tagging and tracking science: technologies and data gaps (2012, methodology): “Passive flipper tags and PIT tags have been used to track the survival, movements and nesting characteristics of turtles large enough to retain tags through time (e.g. Limpus et al. 2003, Chaloupka et al. 2008).”
• Are we working towards global research priorities for management and conservation of sea turtles (2016, background): “…to successful population recovery at nesting sites around the world (Dutton et al. 2005, Marcovaldi & Chaloupka 2007, AbreuGrobois & Plotkin 2008, Chaloupka et al. 2008, Allen et al. 2010, Mortimer et al. 2011, Ehrhart et al. 2014, Weber et al. 2014, Balazs et al. 2015b, Bourjea et al. 2015b).”
• Marine turtles and IUCN Red Listing: A review of the process, the pitfalls, and novel assessment approaches (2008, background): “For example, the Chichi-jima green turtle nesting population in the Ogasawara Islands of southern Japan has been increasing since the early 1980s (Chaloupka et al., 2007), although harvest data suggest the current population size is substantially lower than that at the beginning of the 20th century ”
• Hawksbill sea turtles in seagrass pastures: success in a peripheral habitat (2010, background): “Numbers of nesting green turtles are increasing at some Caribbean and Atlantic nesting beaches (Godley et al. 2001; Chaloupka et al. 2008), so the number of green turtles sharing seagrass pastures with hawksbills may be increasing.”
• Green turtle nesting on Trindade Island, Brazil: abundance, trends, and biometrics (2011, background): “…green turtle populations, such as Tortuguero, Costa Rica; Ascension Island, UK; Aves Island, Venezuela; Suriname; and Florida, USA (Schulz 1975, Bjorndal & Carr 1989, Penaloza 2000, Godley et al. 2001, 2002, Seminoff 2004, Troëng & Rankin 2005, Broderick et al. 2006, Chaloupka et al. 2008).”
• Migratory corridors and foraging hotspots: critical habitats identified for Mediterranean green turtles (2015, background): “Extreme levels of historical harvest have left most populations severely depleted (Seminoff & Shanker, 2008), and whilst some have shown encouraging rebound capacity (Chaloupka et al., 2008), incidental bycatch in fisheries has impeded recovery in other areas (Lewison et al.”
• Global analysis of satellite tracking data shows that adult green turtles are significantly aggregated in Marine Protected Areas (2012, background): “The largely herbivorous green turtle (Chelonia mydas) has a circumglobal distribution in tropical and subtropical regions and after centuries of intensive harvest, some populations are recovering under increased protection (Broderick et al., 2006; Chaloupka et al., 2008).”
• Global Conservation Priorities for Marine Turtles (2011, background): “Specifically, large, stable or increasing, highly diverse populations under low to moderate threats were categorized as Low Risk-Low Threats, which places value on the ongoing census and conservation efforts directed toward these RMUs because these initiatives tend to generate valuable information a”
• So excellent a fishe: a global overview of legal marine turtle fisheries (2014, background): “Undoubtedly, bans on large-scale turtle take have helped marine turtle populations to recover (Chaloupka et al., 2008), and current illegal take levels in some countries do not rival those of the previously legal turtle fishery (J.”
• 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”
• Trophic ecology of a green turtle breeding population (2013, unknown): “Tortuguero hosts the largest rookery of green turtles in the Atlantic by an order of magnitude (Chaloupka et al. 2008).”
• Conservation implications of sea turtle nesting trends: elusive recovery of a globally important loggerhead population (2019, background): “This differs from the strong declining (e.g., Spotila et al. 2000, Tapilatu et al. 2013, Mazaris et al. 2017) or increasing trends observed elsewhere for loggerheads and other sea turtle species (Marcovaldi and Chaloupka 2007, Chaloupka et al. 2008, Mazaris et al. 2017).”