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Loggerhead Turtle <i>Caretta caretta</i> nesting activity in Chebba (Centre Tunisia): Assessment, problems and recommendations

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Title Loggerhead Turtle Caretta caretta nesting activity in Chebba (Centre Tunisia): Assessment, problems and recommendations
 
Creator Jribi, Imed
 
Subject Loggerhead turtle
Caretta caretta
Nesting
Chebba
Tunisia
 
Description 163-169
As the presence of loggerhead turtle nests has occasionally been reported in Chebba (Tunisia), we carried out a survey in "Essir" and "Sidi Messaoud" beaches during summer 2013 to assess the actual state of the nesting population. We report ten nesting events by loggerhead sea turtles. In comparison to past records, this number is relatively high and suggests that Chebba may host a much higher nesting activity than previously thought and higher monitoring effort is recommended, especially in certain beaches. Results indicate that beaches monitored so far are suitable for development, resulting in high hatching and emergence success; incubation durations indicate that majority of hatchlings produced are males.
 
Date 2017-03-02T05:53:16Z
2017-03-02T05:53:16Z
2017-01
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0975-1033 (Online); 0379-5136 (Print)
http://nopr.niscair.res.in/handle/123456789/40604
 
Language en_US
 
Rights CC Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 India
 
Publisher NISCAIR-CSIR, India
 
Source IJMS Vol.46(01) [January 2017]