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

• Main Authors: Wenceslau, José Francisco Carminatti, Mohd Uzair Rusli, Mohd Fadzil Akhir, Santini, Giacomo, Juanita Joseph
• Format: Article
• Language: English; English
• Published: Springer Verlag 2021
• Subjects: GC229-296.8 Currents; QL640-669.3 Reptiles and amphibians
• Online Access: https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/31853/1/Recruitment%20and%20El%20Ni%C3%B1o-Southern%20Oscillation%20long-term%20effects%20on%20green%20turtle%20%28Chelonia%20mydas%29%20nest%20abundance_ABSTRACT.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/31853/2/Recruitment%20and%20El%20Ni%C3%B1o-Southern%20Oscillation%20long-term%20effects%20on%20green%20turtle%20%28Chelonia%20mydas%29%20nest%20abundance.pdf; https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/31853/; https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s00227-021-03989-7.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-021-03989-7

Efforts for the conservation of green turtles (Chelonia mydas) in the Chagar Hutang Turtle Sanctuary (CHTS), Redang Island, Malaysia, have been in place for over two decades. Here we propose that the recruitment of new mothers to this rookery has a significant influence on the recovery of nest abund...