Nesting Ecology of the Leatherback Turtle, Dermochelys coriacea, at Parque Nacional Marino Las Baulas, Costa Rica: 1988–1989 to 1999–2000

By R. Reina, Philippe A. Mayor, J. Spotila, R. Piedra, F. Paladino. Copeia, 2002

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Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Parasitology

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Field lethal incubation temperature of olive ridley sea turtle Lepidochelys olivacea embryos at a mass nesting rookery (2010, unknown): “Although far less abundant, other turtle species such as greens and leatherbacks also exhibit year round nesting, with a discrete peak reproductive window including the months between October and March (Cornelius 1986, Reina et al. 2002).”
Leatherback turtles as oceanographic indicators: stable isotope analyses reveal a trophic dichotomy between ocean basins (2006, background): “For example, eastern Pacific (EP) leatherbacks, on average, are smaller, less massive, have smaller clutch sizes, and longer remigration intervals (period between subsequent nesting seasons) than their North Atlantic (NA) counterparts (Boulon et al. 1996; Reina et al. 2002; Dutton et al. 2005).”
Energy budget calculations indicate resource limitation in Eastern Pacific leatherback turtles (2006, unknown): “…not reported for St. Croix leatherbacks, we assumed that clutch frequencies between the 2 populations were similar because PNMB leatherback ECFs were consistently 1 to 2 nests greater than observed clutch frequencies (OCF) (Reina et al. 2002), and the St. Croix OCF was 5.26 (Boulon et al. 1996).”
Leatherback, Dermochelys coriacea, Nesting Along the Atlantic Coast of Africa (2007, background): “Over the last few years, populations of leatherback turtles, Dermochelys coriacea, from the Pacific Ocean have undergone abrupt declines (Sarti et al. 1996; Eckert and Sarti 1997; Spotila et al. 2000; Reina et al. 2002).”
Variation in adult annual survival probability and remigration intervals of sea turtles (2007, background): “The importance of short remigration intervals in maintaining nesting populations can also be demonstrated by leatherback rookeries in the Atlantic (most common remigration interval 2 years; Rivalan et al. 2005) and the Pacific Ocean (most common remigration interval 3 years; Reina et al. 2002 ).”