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| Cañas-Uribe,Mariana; Payán,Luis F.; Amorocho,Diego F.; Páez,Vivian P.. |
| 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... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Sea turtle; Cheloniidae; Tropical Eastern Pacific; Body condition index; Foraging areas.. |
| Ano: 2020 |
URL: http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0122-97612020000300013 |
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