An investigation of survivorship, mortality, and recruitment of adult female loggerhead sea turtles nesting at Cumberland Island National Seashore, 1987-1991, with special reference to the possible effect of the TED program on nesting behavior

Richardson JI. 1992. An investigation of survivorship, mortality, and recruitment of adult female loggerhead sea turtles nesting at Cumberland Island National Seashore, 1987-1991, with special reference to the possible effect of the TED program on nesting behavior. Fish and Wildlife Service Unit Cooperative Agreement No. 14-16-0009-1551, Work order no. 11. Georgia Sea Turtle Cooperative, Institute of Ecology, University of Georgia. Athens, GA

An investigation of survivorship, mortality, and recruitment of adult female loggerhead sea turtles nesting at Little Cumberland Island and Cumberland Island National Seashore, 1987-1991. Includes introduction to tagging studies in the area; methodology (all night tagging patrols); results and discussion (numbers of nests and nesting females, tagging history, nesting behavior of Cumberland loggerheads); conclusions (possible effect of the turtle exclusion device (TED) program on nesting behavior, other potential causes of increased numbers of nesting visits)

Type
Published Report
Authors
Richardson, James
Date of Issue
1992-06-12
Publisher
Georgia Sea Turtle Cooperative, Institute of Ecology, University of Georgia
Units
CUIS
Keywords
Animal Studies, Loggerhead Sea Turtle (Caretta caretta), Monitoring, Mortality, Nests & Nesting

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