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Surfacing behavior of Loggerhead (Caretta caretta) sea turtles in estuarine and coastal waters of North Carolina
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2010
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Description:"To be in compliance with the Endangered Species Act, the United States Department of the Navy is required to assess the potential environmental impacts of conducting at-sea training operations on sea turtles. As a result, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) was contracted to examine the seasonal distribution and density of sea turtles within North Carolina's Core and Pamlico Sounds where the U.S. Navy Marine Corps Air Station ( MCAS ) Cherry Point performs at-sea bombing operations. The NMFS's current assessment of sea turtle populations likely underestimated sea turtle density because they did not account for surfacing behavior when calculating density (Goodman et al. 2007). To improve the assessment, we satellite tagged sea turtles to estimate the amount of time they spent at the surface of the water, and then applied a correction factor to previous density estimates"--Executive summary.
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Content Notes:by Joanne Braun-McNeill, M. April Goodman, B. Wren Patton.
"July 2010."
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 51-52).
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