Nesting Space Dynamics and Its Relationship with the Arribada of Olive Ridley Turtles at Gahirmatha Rookery, East Coast of India

Sea turtles use beaches that are suitable for the successful development of embryos. Heavy nesting on beaches may have detrimental effects on the survival of embryos as the result of the destruction of nests by conspecifics and physiological stress of the incubation substrate. We studied nesting spa...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of herpetology Jg. 52; H. 4; S. 381 - 386
Hauptverfasser: Behera, Satyaranjan, Tripathy, Basudev, Sivakumar, K., Choudhury, B. C., Dutta, S. K., Pandav, Bivash
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: the Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles 01.12.2018
Society for the Study of Amphibians and Reptiles
Schlagworte:
beaches
coasts
CONSERVATION
females
hatching
India
Lepidochelys olivacea
nesting
prediction
sea turtles
India
ISSN:0022-1511, 1937-2418, 1937-2418
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Zusammenfassung:Sea turtles use beaches that are suitable for the successful development of embryos. Heavy nesting on beaches may have detrimental effects on the survival of embryos as the result of the destruction of nests by conspecifics and physiological stress of the incubation substrate. We studied nesting space dynamics and the impacts of nesting Olive Ridley Sea Turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea) females on the hatching success in Gahirmatha rookery, along east coast of India. A reduction in beach area following a recent post super-cyclone presented an opportunity to test the hypothesis predicting that nest density would negatively affect nest and hatching success. The average calculated area was 475.4 cm2 for one nest cavity; therefore, the nest capacity of the beach was estimated to be 85,176 clutches. The high degree of nest overlap resulted in relatively low hatching success. We expect, however, that if erosion is arrested, the nesting space is likely to expand and thereby increase long-term hatching success at Gahirmatha.
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ISSN:0022-1511
1937-2418
1937-2418
DOI:10.1670/17-027