Dear All
An Intertaxon point. There has been some talk in
recent days on CTURTLE listserv regarding research efforts regarding sonar and
sea turtles.
Some of you are working on same, esp wrt
marine mamal issues and the proposed US Naval Sonar Testing Ranges off
the Atlantic USA.
Please note that there are possibly significant
aggregations of marine turtles in these areas behaving in a manner that make
them difficult to detect. I would draw your attention to a recent paper from our
group:
Hawkes et al "Only some like it hot —
quantifying the environmental niche of the loggerhead sea turtle" recently
published in Diversity and Distributions and available from our website at:
http://www.seaturtle.org/mtrg/pubs/"
With a modest number of adult females we show
useage of all three proposed areas.
Best
Brendan
Dr. Brendan J. Godley
Senior Lecturer in
Conservation Biology
Centre for Ecology & Conservation
School of
Biosciences
University of Exeter, Cornwall Campus
TR10 9EZ,
UK