Water temperature and internesting intervals for loggerhead (Caretta caretta) and green (Chelonia mydas) sea turtles |
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| Institution: | 1. School of Biological Sciences, University of Wales Swansea, Singleton Park, Swansea SA2 8PP, UK;2. The Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Lowestoft Laboratory, Lowestoft NR33 0HT, UK;1. Population Ecology Group, Institut Mediterrani d’Estudis Avançats, IMEDEA (CSIC-UIB), Miquel Marquès, 21, 07190 Esporles, Mallorca, Spain;2. The Leatherback Trust, Goldring-Gund Marine Biology Station, Playa Grande, Costa Rica;3. Department of Biology, Indiana-Purdue University, 2101 E. Coliseum Blvd., Ft. Wayne, IN 46805-1499, USA;4. Parque Nacional Marino Las Baulas, Ministerio de Ambiente y Energía, Playa Grande, Costa Rica;5. Department of Natural Sciences, University of Michigan-Dearborn, 125 Science Building, 4901 Evergreen Road, Dearborn, MI 48128, USA;6. Department of Biodiversity, Earth and Environmental Science, Drexel University, 3245 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA;1. DEPE-IPHC, UMR 7178, CNRS-UdS, 23 rue Becquerel, F-67087 Strasbourg cedex 2, France;2. Association Kwata, 16 avenue Pasteur, BP 672, F-97335 Cayenne cedex, France;3. LOCEAN-UMR 7159, 4 place Jussieu, 75252 Paris cedex 05, France;4. Collecte Localisation Satellites, Direction Océanographie Spatiale, 8-10 rue Hermès, 31520 Ramonville, France;5. Office National de la Chasse et de la Faune Sauvage – Cellule technique Guyane, Campus agronomique, BP 316, 97379 Kourou cedex, France;6. WWF Guyane, N°5 Lotissement Katoury, F-97300 Cayenne, France;7. Centre d’Études Biologiques de Chizé, UMR 7372 CNRS – Université de La Rochelle, 79360 Villiers-en-Bois, France;8. Stockholm University, Department of Meteorology (MISU), Sweden;1. University of Sfax, Laboratory of Biodiversity and Aquatic Ecosystems UR/11ES72, Ecology and Planktonology, Department of Life Sciences, Soukra Road Km 3.5, BP1171, 3000 Sfax, Tunisia;2. Université du Maine, laboratoire Mer Molécules Sante FR-CNRS 3473 IUML, 72085 Le Mans, France;1. Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, 97330, USA;2. Department of Biology, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA, 90041, USA;3. NOAA NMFS – Southeast Fisheries Science Center, Miami, FL, 33149, USA;1. Pamukkale University, Faculty of Science, Department of Biology, Denizli, Turkey;2. Society for the Protection of Turtles, Gonyeli, Cyprus;3. Eastern Mediterranean University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Department of Biological Sciences, 99628, Famagusta, north Cyprus, Mersin 10, Turkey;4. Eastern Mediterranean University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Underwater Research and Imaging Center (URIC), 99628, Famagusta, north Cyprus, Mersin 10, Turkey;5. Marine Turtle Research Group, Centre for Ecology and Conservation, University of Exeter, Penryn, UK |
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| Abstract: | Temperature loggers were attached to the carapace of green turtles (Chelonia mydas) at Ascension Island and Cyprus and to loggerhead turtles (Caretta caretta) at Cyprus, in order to record the ambient temperature experienced by individuals during the internesting interval, i.e. the period between consecutive clutches being laid. Internesting intervals were relatively short (10–14 days) and mean ambient temperatures relatively warm (27–28°C), compared to previous observations for these species nesting in Japan, although a single internesting interval versus temperature relationship described all the data for these two species from the different areas. The implication is that water temperature has both a common and a profound effect on the length of the internesting interval for these two species: internesting intervals are shorter when the water is warmer. |
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