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Bourjea, Jerome; Frappier, Julie; Quillard, Mireille; Ciccione, Stephane; Roos, David; Hughes, Georges; Grizel, Henri. |
Situated in the north of the Mozambique Channel, Mayotte is the easternmost island of the Comoros Archipelago. From 1998 to 2005, Grande Saziley beach was monitored daily for green turtle Chelonia mydas nesting activity. Track surveys were monitored daily on 5 other adjacent beaches. Although nesting occurs throughout the year, nesting seasonality begins at the end of the wet season and intensifies during the dry season to reach an average nesting peak in June. In order to estimate the number of females nesting in the Saziley site and population trends over the study period, incubation success and number of nests per female and per season were estimated at 0.77 (±0.05 SD) and 3.03 (±0.37) respectively. With an average of 1545 nesting turtles per year... |
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Ano: 2007 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00018/12916/9873.pdf |
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