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This section is compiled by the Archie Carr Center for Sea Turtle Research (ACCSTR), University of Florida. The ACCSTR maintains the Sea Turtle On-line Bibliography: (<http://accstr.ufl.edu/biblio.html>).

It is requested that a copy of all publications (including technical reports and non-refereed journal articles) be sent to both:

1) The ACCSTR for inclusion in both the on-line bibliography and the MTN. Address: Archie Carr Center for Sea Turtle Research, University of Florida, PO Box 118525, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA.

2) The editors of the Marine Turtle Newsletter to facilitate the transmission of information to colleagues submitting articles who may not have access to on-line literature reviewing services.

AGUIRRE, A.A., T.M. O'HARA, T.R. SPRAKER & D.A. JESSUP. 2002. Monitoring the health and conservation of marine mammals, sea turtles & their ecosystems. In: A.A. Aguirre, R.S. Ostfeld, G.M. Tabor, C.A. House & M.C. Pearl (Eds.). Conservation Medicine - Ecological Health in Practice, Oxford Univ. Press, New York. pp. 79-94. (Columbia Univ, Wildlife Trust, 61 Route 9 W, Palisades, NY 10964 USA. E-mail: aguirre@wildlifetrust.org)

AKESSON, S., A.C. BRODERICK, F. GLEN, B.J. GODLEY, P. LUSCHI, F. PAPI & G.C. HAYS. 2003. Navigation by green turtles: which strategy do displaced adults use to find Ascension Island? Oikos 103: 363-72. (Dept. of Animal Ecology, Lund Univ, Ecology Building, SE-223 62 Lund, Sweden. E-mail: susanne.akesson@zooekol.lu.se)

ALVARADO-DIAZ, J., E. ARIAS-COYOTL & C. DELGADO-TREJO. 2003. Clutch frequency of the Michoacan Green Seaturtle. Journal of Herpetology 37: 183-85. (Univ Michoacana San Nicolas Hidalgo, Inst Invest Sobre Recursos Nat, JJ Tablada 700-4, Morelia 58090, Michoacan, Mexico. E-mail: jadiaz@zeus.ccu.umich.mx)

ANDREWS, H.V., S. KRISHNAN & P. BISWAS. 2002. Leatherback nesting in the Andaman & Nicobar Islands. Kachhapa 6: 15-18. <http://www.kachhapa.org/newsletter/>

ANDREWS, H. & K. SHANKER. 2002. A significant population of leatherback turtles in the Indian Ocean. Kachhapa 6: 19. <http://www.kachhapa.org/newsletter/>

ANON. 2003. Australia acts to protect marine turtles. Marine Pollution Bulletin 46: 1055-56.

AVENS, L., J. BRAUN-MCNEILL, S. EPPERLY & K.J. LOHMANN. 2003. Site fidelity and homing behavior in juvenile loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta). Marine Biology 143: 211-20. (Univ N Carolina, Dept Biol, CB 3280, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 USA. E-mail: Larisa.Avens@noaa.gov)

BELL, B.A., J.R. SPOTILA, F.V. PALADINO & R.D. REINA. 2003. Low reproductive success of leatherback turtles, Dermochelys coriacea, is due to high embryonic mortality. Biological Conservation 115: 131-38. (Dept. of Bioscience and Biotechnology, 3141 Chestnut St., Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. E-mail: barbaraaln@hotmail.com)

BENTIVEGNA, F., S. HOCHSCHEID & C. MINUCCI. 2003. Seasonal variability in voluntary dive duration of the Mediterranean loggerhead turtle, Caretta caretta. Scientia Marina 67: 371-75. (Stn Zool A Dohrn, Villa Comunale 1, I-80121 Naples, Italy. E-mail: flegra@alpha.szn.it)

BOLTEN, A.B. & B.E. WITHERINGTON, Eds. 2003. Loggerhead Sea Turtles. Smithsonian Books, Washington, D.C. 319 pp. Available from Smithsonian Books (<http://www.sipress.si.edu> or 1-800-233-4830).

CHOUDHURY, B.C. 2003. Editorial: TEDs in India: from conflict to consultation. Kachhapa 8: 1-2. <http://www.kachhapa.org/newsletter/>

CONE, S.M. 2003. Article:V. The environment and the law: the environment and the World Trade Organization. New York Law School Journal of International & Comparative Law 22: 245-57.

DAWSON, P. & M.R. BOOPENDRANATH. 2003. CIFT-TED: Construction, installation and operation. Kachhapa 8: 5-7. <http://www.kachhapa.org/newsletter/>

DHARANI, S. 2003. Turtle conservation by local communities in Madras. Kachhapa 8: 22. <http://www.kachhapa.org/newsletter/>

DIEZ, C. E. & R. P. VAN DAM. 2003. Sex ratio of an immature hawksbill seaturtle aggregation at Mona Island, Puerto Rico. Journal of Herpetology 37: 533-37. (Dept. de Recursos Naturales y Ambientales, P.O. Box 9066600, San Juan, PR 00906-6600, USA. E-mail: cediez@caribe.net)

DONGRE, S.K.M. 2003. School education to support sea turtle conservation: experiences from Goa and Orissa. Kachhapa 8: 20-21. <http://www.kachhapa.org/newsletter/>

EKANAYAKE, E.M.L., T. KAPURUSINGHE, M.M. SAMAN & M.G.C. PREMAKUMARA. 2002. Estimation of the number of leatherback (Dermochelys coriacea) nesting at the Godavaya turtle rookery in southern Sri Lanka during the nesting season in the year 2001. Kachhapa 6: 13-14. <http://www.kachhapa.org/newsletter/>

GARDNER, S.C., M.D. PIER, R. WESSELMAN & J.A. JUAREZ. 2003. Organochlorine contaminants in sea turtles from the eastern Pacific. Marine Pollution Bulletin 46: 1082-89. (Ctr Invest Biol Noroeste SC, Mar Bermejo 195, Col Playa Palo Santa Rita, La Paz 23090, Baja California, Mexico. E-mail: sgardner@cibnor.mx)

GEIS, A., T. WIBBELS, B. PHILLIPS, Z. HILLIS-STARR, A. MEYLAN, P. MEYLAN, C. DIEZ & R. VAN DAM. 2003. Predicted sex ratio of juvenile hawksbill seaturtles inhabiting Buck Island Reef National Monument, US Virgin Islands. Journal of Herpetology 37: 400-404. (T. Wibbels, Univ Alabama, Dept Biol, 1300 Univ. Blvd., Birmingham, AL 35294 USA. E-mail: twibbels@uab.edu)

GIRI, V. & N. CHATURVEDI. 2003. Status of marine turtles in Maharashtra, India. Kachhapa 8: 11-15. <http://www.kachhapa.org/newsletter/>

GODFREY, M.H., V. DELMAS & M. GIRONDOT. 2003. Assessment of patterns of temperature-dependent sex determination using maximum likelihood model selection. Ecoscience 10: 265-72. (M. Girondot, Univ Paris 11, UMR 8079, BAT 362, F-91405 Orsay, France. E-mail:marc.girondot@ese.u-psud.fr)

GODFREY, M. H. & M. PEDRONO. 2002. Guest Editorial: Marine turtles: What about reintroduction? Kachhapa No. 6: 3-7. <http://www.kachhapa.org/newsletter/>

GREER, L.L., J.D. STRANDBERG & B.R. WHITAKER. 2003. Mycobacterium chelonae osteoarthritis in a Kemp's ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys kempii). Journal of Wildlife Diseases 39: 736-41. (Los Angeles Zoo, 5333 Zoo Dr., Los Angeles, CA 90027, USA. E-mail: lgreer@zoo.lacity.org)

GUILBEAUX, M. 2003. Sea turtles, their management & policy in the Republic of Palau: an assessment of stakeholder perception. A Report of the Palau Conservation Society. Vol. 1 & 2: 164 pp.(E-mail: mike@conservationpractice.org)

HARMS, C.A., K.M. MALLO, P.M. ROSS & A. SEGARS. 2003. Venous blood gases and lactates of wild loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) following two capture techniques. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 39: 366-74. (Univ N Carolina, Coll Vet Med, Ctr Marine Sci & Technol, Dept Clin Sci, 303 Coll. Circle, Morehead City, NC 28557 USA. E-mail: craig_harms@ncsu.edu)

HAYS, G.C., S. AKESSON, A.C. BRODERICK, F. GLEN, B.J. GODLEY, F. PAPI & P. LUSCHI. 2003. Island-finding ability of marine turtles. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B - Biological Sciences 270: S5-S7. (Sch Biol Sci, Univ. Wales Swansea, Swansea SA2 8PP, UK, E-mail: g.hays@swan.ac.uk)

HIRAYAMA, R. & H.Y. TONG. 2003. Osteopygis (Testudines: Cheloniidae) from the Lower Tertiary of the Ouled Abdoun phosphate basin, Morocco. Palaeontology 46: 845-56 Part 5. (Teikyo Heisei Univ Technol, Fac Informat, Uruido 2289-23, Chiba 2900193, Japan. E-mail: renhrym@ab.mbn.or.jp)

ISLAM, M.Z. 2002. Threats to sea turtles in St. Martin's Island, Bangladesh. Kachhapa 6: 8-12. <http://www.kachhapa.org/newsletter/>

JAEGER, G.H., M.A. WOSAR, C.A. HARMS & G.A. LEWBART. 2003. Use of a supraplastron approach to the coelomic cavity for repair of an esophageal tear in a loggerhead sea turtle. Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association 223: 353-55.

KEAR, B.P. 2003. Cretaceous marine reptiles of Australia: a review of taxonomy and distribution. Cretaceous Research 24: 277-303. S Australian Museum, Adelaide, SA 5000, Australia. E-mail: kear.ben@saugov.sa.gov.au)

KITSOS, M.S., M. CHRISTODOULOU, S. KALPAKIS, M. NOIDOU & A. KOUKOURAS. 2003. Cirripedia Thoracica associated with Caretta caretta (Linnaeus, 1758) in the northern Aegean Sea. Crustaceana 76, Part 4: 403-9. (Aristotle Univ Thessaloniki, Dept Zool, Sch Biol, GR-54124 Thessaloniki, Greece. E-mail: akoukour@bio.auth.gr)

KUBOTA, R., T. KUNITO & S. TANABE. 2003. Occurrence of several arsenic compounds in the liver of birds, cetaceans, pinnipeds & sea turtles. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 22: 1200-1207. (S. Tanabe, Ehime Univ, Ctr Marine Environm Studies, Tarumi 3-5-7, Matsuyama, Ehime 7908566, Japan. E-mail: shinsuke@agr.ehime-u.ac.jp)

KURIAN, A. & V.N. NAYAK. 2003. Influence of environmental factors on the hatching success of olive ridley turtles: a preliminary study. Kachhapa 8: 8-11. <http://www.kachhapa.org/newsletter/>

LEWISON, R.L., L.B. CROWDER & D.J. SHAVER. 2003. The impact of turtle excluder devices and fisheries closures on loggerhead and Kemp's ridley strandings in the western Gulf of Mexico. Conservation Biology 17: 1089-97. (Duke Univ, Marine Lab, Nicholas Sch Environm & Earth Sci, 135 Duke Marine Lab Rd., Beaufort, NC 28516 USA. E-mail: rebecca.lewison@duke.edu)

LUSCHI, P. 2003. Migration and conservation: The case of sea turtles. In: M. Festa-Bianchet & M. Apollonio (Eds.). Animal Behavior and Wildlife Conservation. Island Press, Washington, D.C. pp. 49-61. (Univ Pisa, Dipartimento Etol Ecol Evoluz, Via A. Volta 6, I-56126 Pisa, Italy. E-mail: luschi@discau.unipi.it)

LUSCHI, P., G.R. HUGHES, R. MENCACCI, E. DE BERNARDI, A. SALE, R. BROKER, M. BOUWER & F. PAPI. 2003. Satellite tracking of migrating loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) displaced in the open sea. Marine Biology 143: 793-801. (Address same as above)

SANKAR, O.B. & M.A. RAJU. 2003. Implementation of the Turtle Excluder Device in Andhra Pradesh. Kachhapa 8: 2-5. <http://www.kachhapa.org/newsletter/>

SANTORA, C. 2003. Management of turtle bycatch: Can endangered species be protected while minimizing socioeconomic impacts? Coastal Management 31: 423-34. (New York Zoological Society, Wildlife Conservation Int. Ocean Strategies Program, 2300 Southern Blvd., Bronx, NY 10460, USA. E-mail: csantora@wcs.org)

SCHARER, M.T. 2003. A survey of the epibiota of Eretmochelys imbricata (Testudines : Cheloniidae) of Mona Island, Puerto Rico. Revista de Biologia Tropical 51: 87-90.(Univ Puerto Rico, Dept Marine Sci, Mayaguez, PR 00681 USA. E-mail: Chelonia@wildmail.com)

SHANKER, K. 2002. Where do all the hatchlings go? Kachhapa 6: 21. <http://www.kachhapa.org/newsletter/>

SHANKER, K. 2003. Thirty years of sea turtle conservation on the Madras coast: a review. Kachhapa 8: 16-19. (<http://www.kachhapa.org/newsletter/>)

SHANKER, K., B. PANDAV & B. C. CHOUDHURY. 2003. An assessment of the olive ridley turtle (Lepidochelys olivacea) nesting population in Orissa, India. Biological Conservation 115: 149-60. (Centre for Herpetology/Madras Crocodile Bank Trust, Post Bag 4, Mamallapuram, Tamil Nadu, 603104, India. E-mail:kartikshanker@vsnl.net)

SOUTHWOOD, A.L., R.D. REINA, V.S. JONES & D.R. JONES. 2003. Seasonal diving patterns and body temperatures of juvenile green turtles at Heron Island, Australia. Canadian Journal of Zoology 81: 1014-24. (Univ. Hawaii Manoa, Joint Inst. of Marine and Atmospheric Research, 2570 Dole St., Honolulu, HI 96822, USA. E-mail: Amanda.Southwood@noaa.gov)

STACHOWITSCH, M. 2003. Research on intact marine ecosystems: a lost era. Marine Pollution Bulletin 46: 801-5. (Univ Vienna, Dept Marine Biol, Inst Ecol & Conservat Biol, Althanstr. 14, A-1090 Vienna, Austria. E-mail: stachom5@univie.ac.at)

SULLIVAN, L.C., S. ORGEIG & C.B. DANIELS. 2003. The role of extrinsic and intrinsic factors in the evolution of the control of pulmonary surfactant maturation during development in the amniotes. Physiological and Biochemical Zoology 76: 281-95. (C. B. Daniels, Univ. Melbourne, Dept. Microbiology & Immunology, Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia. E-mail: chris.daniels@adelaide.edu.au)

TANAKA, M. 2003. Bridging the gap between northern NGOs and southern sovereigns in the trade-environment debate: the pursuit of democratic dispute settlements in the WTO under the Rio Principles. Ecology Law Quarterly 30: 113-88.

TOMAS, J., A. FORMIA, M. FERNANDEZ & J.A. RAGA. 2003. Occurrence and genetic analysis of a Kemp's ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys kempii) in the Mediterranean Sea. Scientia Marina 67: 367-69. (Cavanilles Research Institute of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, University of Valencia, Aptdo. 22085, E-46071 Valencia, Spain. E-mail: jesus.tomas@uv.es)

TURKOZAN, O., E. TASKAVAK & C. ILGAZ. 2003. A review of the biology of the loggerhead turtle, Caretta caretta, at five major nesting beaches on the south-western Mediterranean coast of Turkey. Herpetological Journal 13: 27-33. (E. Taskavak, Ege University, Faculty of Fisheries, Department of Fisheries, 35100-Bornova, Izmir, Turkey. E-mail:taskavak@sufak.ege.edu.tr)

WORM, B., H.K. LOTZE & R.A. MYERS. 2003. Predator diversity hotspots in the blue ocean. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 100: 9884-9888.(alhousie Univ, Dept Biol, Halifax, NS B3H 4J1, Canada. E-mail: bworm@ifm.uni-kiel.de)

WRIGHT, B. & B. MOHANTY. 2002. Olive ridley mortality in gill nets in Orissa. Kachhapa 6: 20. <http://www.kachhapa.org/newsletter/>

WURSIG, B. & G.A. GAILEY. 2002. Marine mammals and aquaculture: Conflicts and potential resolutions. In R.R. Stickney & J.P. McVey (Eds.). Responsible Marine Aquaculture. CABI Pub., New York. pp. 45-59 (Texas A&M Univ, Dept Marine Biol, 4700 Avenue U, Bldg. 303, Galveston, TX 77551 USA).

MEDASSET. 2003. Update report on marine turtle conservation in Zakynthos (Laganas Bay), 2003, Greece. Council of Europe T-PVS/Files (2003) 13: 19. (MEDASSET, 1c Licavitou St., 106 72 Athens, Greece. E-mail: medasset@hol.gr)

MEDASSET & M. AUREGGI. 2003. Update report and review of nature conservation measures in Patara Spa, 2003, Turkey. Council of Europe T-PVS/Files (2002) 12: 25. (Address same as above)

MEDASSET & M. KASPAREK. 2003. Conservation status of green turtles (Chelonia mydas) in the eastern Mediterranean: Kazanli, Akyatan, Samandag, 2003, Turkey. Council of Europe T-PVS/Files (2002) 14: 9. (Address same as above)

OROS, J., A. TORRENT, F. AGUIRRE & J. BRICHIS. 2003. Protocolo de necropsia en tortugas marinas. Unidad de Histologia y Anatomia Patologica Veterinaria, Facultad de Veterinaria ULPGC. In Spanish in VCD-CD format. (E-mail at: joros@dmor.ulpgc.es.)

SEMINOFF, J.A., Compiler. 2003. Proceedings of the Twenty Second Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation. NOAA Technical Memorandum NMFS-SEFSC-503: 308 pp. (Available online at <http://www.sefsc.noaa.gov/PDFdocs/TM503.pdf> or send mailing label to: W. Witzell, NMFS, 75 Virginia Beach Drive, Miami, FL 33149, USA.)

MARTIN, C. 2003. The behaviour of free-living marine turtles: underwater activities, migrations & seasonal occurrences. Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Wales, Swansea, U.K. 190 pp. (E-mail: mail@corinne-martin.co.uk)

PARRA MONTES DE OCA, L.I. 2002. Diagnostico de la situacion actual de las poblaciones de tortugas marinas en la costa occidental del Golfo de Venezuela, Estado Zulia. [Diagnosis of the current status of the populations of sea turtles in the western coast of the Gulf of Venezuela.]. Licenciado En Biología Thesis, Departamento de Biologia, Facultad Experimental de Ciencias, Universidad del Zulia, Maracaibo, Venezuela. 154 pp. (E-mail: lparra69@hotmail.com)

WHITING, S.D. 2001. The ecology of immature green and hawksbill turtles foraging on two reef systems in north-western Australia. Ph.D. Dissertation. Northern Territory University, Darwin, Australia. 372 pp.