Status of sea turtles (Chelonia mydas and Caretta caretta) on Samanda? Beach, Turkey: A five-year monitoring study

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dc.contributor.authorYalçın Özdilek, Şükran
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-27T19:02:37Z
dc.date.available2025-01-27T19:02:37Z
dc.date.issued2007
dc.departmentÇanakkale Onsekiz Mart Üniversitesi
dc.description.abstractSamanda? Beach in Turkey is one of the three most important nesting beaches in the eastern Mediterranean for the critically-endangered green turtle (Chelonia mydas), and is also a nesting area for the loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta). In this study, the nesting characteristics of green and loggerhead turtles on Samandag beach were determined during the nesting season from 2001 to 2005. During the five-year monitoring, the mean green and loggerhead turtle nest numbers were 121 (range = 16-325) and 11 (range = 7-20), respectively. The mean ratio of non-nesting emergence to nesting emergence (1.6) was lower than the ratio reported in previous studies. The green-turtle nest density on Samanda? beach (14 km), and Şeyhhizir beach (4.1 km), was 9.3 (range = 1.1-23.2) nests/km and 23.5 nest/km (range = 3.4-64.4), respectively. Loggerhead turtle emergence was randomly distributed, the emergence of green turtles (94.1%), however, was concentrated approx. 3 km north and 3 km south of the Asi River. The emergence of both species took place mainly in July. The average hatching success of green and loggerhead turtles was 70.38% and 71.8%, respectively, with minimum and maximum incubation durations of 43-67 and 44-61 days, respectively. © Finnish Zoological and Botanical Publishing Board 2007.
dc.identifier.endpage347
dc.identifier.issn0003-455X
dc.identifier.issue5
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-36149000567
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ2
dc.identifier.startpage333
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12428/13601
dc.identifier.volume44
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopus
dc.language.isoen
dc.relation.ispartofAnnales Zoologici Fennici
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
dc.snmzKA_Scopus_20250125
dc.subjectEurasia; Hatay; Orontes River; Samandag; Turkey; Caretta caretta; Chelonia mydas; Cheloniidae; Testudines; beach; biomonitoring; breeding season; emergence; endangered species; environmental monitoring; hatching; incubation; nest site; population distribution; turtle
dc.titleStatus of sea turtles (Chelonia mydas and Caretta caretta) on Samanda? Beach, Turkey: A five-year monitoring study
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