How learning more about mass nesting can help conserve sea turtles
Tuesday, October 18, 2011 - 18:00
in Biology & Nature
Ecologists are a step closer to understanding one of nature's most extraordinary sights the 'arribada' or synchronised mass nesting of female olive ridley sea turtles. The new study, published today in the British Ecological Society's Journal of Animal Ecology, is the first to combine three different approaches genetics, demography and behaviour, and the results should help conserve these vulnerable marine creatures.