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

2005 ◽  
Vol 121 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-116 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sebastian Troëng ◽  
Eddy Rankin
Keyword(s):  
Costa Rica ◽  
Green Turtle ◽  
Chelonia Mydas

Discovery of a Major East Pacific Green Turtle (Chelonia mydas) Nesting Population in Northwest Costa Rica

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 169
Author(s):  
Luis G. Fonseca ◽  
Pilar Santidrián Tomillo ◽  
Wilbert N. Villachica ◽  
Wagner M. Quirós ◽  
Marta Pesquero ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Costa Rica ◽  
Green Turtle ◽  
Chelonia Mydas ◽  
East Pacific

scholarly journals Redescription of Charaxicephaloides polyorchis Groschaft and Tenora 1978 (Digenea: Pronocephalidae) from the green turtle Chelonia mydas in Costa Rica

2009 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Santoro ◽  
P. Brandmayr ◽  
E. Greiner ◽  
J. Morales ◽  
B. Rodríguez-Ortíz
Keyword(s):  
Costa Rica ◽  
Host Species ◽  
Green Turtle ◽  
Chelonia Mydas ◽  
Original Description ◽  
Northwest Coast ◽  
Green Turtles ◽  
New Information

AbstractCharaxicephaloides polyorchis Groschaft and Tenora, 1978 is redescribed on the basis of specimens collected from the stomach of green turtles Chelonia mydas in Costa Rica. Our specimens are consistent with the original description which was based on four flukes from the same host species from the northwest coast of Cuba. Our redescription provides a new range of variations and adds new information on this species. This represents only the second record of C. polyorchis in green turtles.

Blood parameters of the Eastern Pacific green turtle (Chelonia mydas) foraging in the Golfo Dulce, Costa Rica

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (5) ◽  
pp. 793-800
Author(s):  
Priscilla Howell ◽  
Ana Meneses ◽  
Marcela Suárez-Esquivel ◽  
Andrea Chaves ◽  
Didiher Chacón ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Costa Rica ◽  
Green Turtle ◽  
Chelonia Mydas ◽  
Blood Parameters ◽  
Eastern Pacific

Spatial Distribution of Green Turtle (Chelonia mydas) Nests at Tortuguero, Costa Rica

Copeia ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 1992 (1) ◽  
pp. 45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen A. Bjorndal ◽  
Alan B. Bolten
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Distribution ◽  
Costa Rica ◽  
Green Turtle ◽  
Chelonia Mydas

scholarly journals Post-nesting movements and feeding grounds of a resident East Pacific green turtle Chelonia mydas population from Costa Rica

2012 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 233-245 ◽  
Author(s):  
GS Blanco ◽  
SJ Morreale ◽  
H Bailey ◽  
JA Seminoff ◽  
FV Paladino ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Costa Rica ◽  
Green Turtle ◽  
Chelonia Mydas ◽  
East Pacific ◽  
Feeding Grounds

Recruitment and El Niño-Southern Oscillation long-term effects on green turtle (Chelonia mydas) nest abundance

2021 ◽  
Vol 168 (12) ◽  
Author(s):  
José Francisco Carminatti Wenceslau ◽  
Mohd Uzair Rusli ◽  
Mohd Fadzil Akhir ◽  
Giacomo Santini ◽  
Juanita Joseph
Keyword(s):  
El Niño ◽  
Green Turtle ◽  
El Nino ◽  
Southern Oscillation ◽  
Chelonia Mydas ◽  
El Niño Southern Oscillation ◽  
El Nino Southern Oscillation ◽  
Long Term Effects ◽  
Nest Abundance

scholarly journals Foraging Habits of Green Sea Turtles (Chelonia mydas) in the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lyndsey N. Howell ◽  
Donna J. Shaver
Keyword(s):  
Gulf Of Mexico ◽  
Green Turtle ◽  
Carapace Length ◽  
Foraging Ecology ◽  
Chelonia Mydas ◽  
Foraging Habitat ◽  
Seagrass Meadows ◽  
Green Sea Turtles ◽  
Green Turtles

Knowledge of green turtle (Chelonia mydas) foraging ecology in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico (GOM) is critical as populations begin to recover from heavy harvesting in prior centuries. We present a comprehensive long-term assessment of green turtle diets from carcasses salvaged from 1987 to 2014 along the Texas coast. Digestive tract contents were examined from 420 green turtles, ranging in size from 7.3 to 86.0 cm in straight carapace length (SCLmax). Green turtles as small as 16.2 cm SCLmax recruit from the oceanic environment to nearshore foraging habitat in the northwestern GOM and consume macroalgae principally. A successive shift in diet and habitat to inshore seagrasses was evident by the seagrass-dominated diet of turtles larger than 30 cm SCLmax. Animal matter remained a frequently ingested diet item suggesting these immature green turtles are better classified as omnivores. The overall evidence indicates that Texas’ recovering green turtle assemblage is exhibiting foraging plasticity within seagrass meadows changing species composition and density.

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