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Determining The Impacts Of Beach Restoration On Loggerhead (Caretta Caretta) And Green Turtle (Chelonia Mydas) Nesting Patterns And Reproductive Success Along Florida's Atlantic Coast, Allison Whitney Hays
Determining The Impacts Of Beach Restoration On Loggerhead (Caretta Caretta) And Green Turtle (Chelonia Mydas) Nesting Patterns And Reproductive Success Along Florida's Atlantic Coast, Allison Whitney Hays
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Artificial beach nourishment, the most common method to mitigate coastal erosion in the United States, is also considered the most ecologically friendly alternative for shoreline stabilization. However, this habitat alteration has the potential to impact nesting marine turtles and developing hatchlings. The first objective of this study was to determine how nourishing beaches with two different design templates affects loggerhead (Caretta caretta) and green turtle (Chelonia mydas) nesting success, the ratio of nests to the total number of nests and non-nesting emergences, and reproductive success, the ratio of hatched and emerged hatchlings to the total number of eggs deposited. Two …