Entries for tag "mortality"
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wallacejnichols
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Oct. 17, 2007
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Peckham, SH, D Maldonado Diaz, A Walli, G Ruiz, LB Crowder, and WJ Nichols. 2007. Small-scale fisheries bycatch jeopardizes endangered Pacific loggerhead turtles, PLoS ONE 2: 10. Abstract Background Although bycatch of industrial-scale fisheries can cause declines in migratory megafauna including seabirds, marine mammals, and sea turtles, the impacts of…
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wallacejnichols
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Oct. 17, 2007
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Washington, DC. Ocean Conservancy Scientist, Wallace J. Nichols and University of California-Santa Cruz researcher Hoyt Peckham found surprising results in a recent peer-reviewed loggerhead sea turtle study that Nichols and Peckham conducted over the course of 10 years. The full study will be published on October 17 in the online,…
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wallacejnichols
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April 15, 2007
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Introduction A solitary loggerhead turtle in the middle of a vast ocean may not sound like an adventure film, but stick with her. Along her 9,000-mile voyage to nest, our loggerhead tour guide in Voyage of the Lonely Turtle encounters hammerhead sharks, deep ocean tempests, and man-made death traps in…
