Browsing by Subject "Kemp's ridley"
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(2014-05-06)Nearly annual record Kemp’s ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys kempii) nesting activity on the upper Texas coast (UTC; defined as beaches from Sabine Pass to Matagorda Peninsula), where scientifically verifiable nesting ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2004-09-30)The critically endangered Kemp's ridley sea turtle experienced a dramatic decline in population size (demographic bottleneck) between 1947 and 1987 from 160,000 mature individuals to less than 5000. Demographic bottlenecks ...
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(2009-05-15)The Kemp’s ridley sea turtle, Lepidochelys kempii, is recovering from devastating declines that reduced nesting activity from a single-day estimate of 10,000- 40,000 females in 1947 to fewer than 300 during all of 1985. ...
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(2022-12-07)Sea turtles exhibit temperature dependent sex determination where higher temperatures produce a greater number of female hatchlings. This leaves them vulnerable to climate change where an increase global temperatures can ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-08-29)Little is known of trace metal concentrations and their possible role in the mortality of critically endangered Kemp??s ridley sea turtles (Lepidochelys kempii). Research described herein characterized concentrations of ...