Data/hora: 08/06/2024 19:17:08

Provedor de dados: | 50
País: | Colombia
Título: | Somatic growth rates of the Hawksbill Turtle, Eretmochelys imbricata, in Gorgona Natural National Park, Colombia, between 2004 and 2018
Autores: | Cañas-Uribe,Mariana; Payán,Luis F.; Amorocho,Diego F.; Páez,Vivian P.
Data: | 2020-12-01
Ano: | 2020
Palavras-chave: | Sea turtle; Cheloniidae; Tropical Eastern Pacific; Body condition index; Foraging areas.
Resumo: | ABSTRACT The Hawksbill Turtle, Eretmochelys imbricata, is globally assessed as Critically Endangered, and information in the Eastern Pacific Ocean is limited. For this reason, this investigation evaluated the somatic growth rates in an immature hawksbill sea turtle aggregation using capture-mark-recapture on the coral reefs at Playa Blanca and La Azufrada in the Gorgona Natural National Park, Colombia. Between 2004 and 2018, we made 89 captures of 49 hawksbill individuals. The mean curved carapace length (CCL) obtained was 41.6 cm (range 32-58 cm), and the mean straight-line carapace length (SCL) was 39.1 cm (range 30.0-54.1 cm), showing these reefs to be critical foraging grounds for immature individuals. The mean body condition index was 1.3 (range 1.0-1.5), suggesting that environmental conditions maintain the health of this aggregation in good conditions. Using the von Bertalanffy growth model and establishing a maximum length (L∞) of 63 cm of CCL (where the lowest coefficient of variation is obtained), we estimated a k of 0.081 and an average annual growth rate of 1.5 ± 1.8 cm/year. This indicated that individuals in this aggregation reach a CCL of 63 cm at 33-34 years of age, close to the sexual maturity for the tropical eastern Pacific region (approximately 66 cm CCL). This indicates the vulnerability of this species due to its late maturity and slow growth. Because of this, conservation efforts for this species must be long-term to ensure its recovery, since species with these characteristics tend to express very low population growth rates.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0122-97612020000300013

Editor:

INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES MARINAS Y COSTERAS "JOSE BENITO VIVES DE ANDRÉIS" (INVEMAR)

INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES MARINAS Y COSTERAS -JOSE BENITO VIVES DE ANDRÉIS- (INVEMAR)

Relação: | 10.25268/bimc.invemar.2020.49.suplesp.1061
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Boletín de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras - INVEMAR  v.49 suppl.1 2020
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess