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Marine Turtle Newsletter-Online
Number 131 December 2011

MTN131 Cover
Predation by Mediterranean monk seal on a loggerhread turtle in Greece - see pages 18-23 (photo: S. Touliatou/ARCHELON).

IN THIS ISSUE: PDF download Adobe Acrobat (PDF) Version

Articles

mtn131p1.shtmlEditorial: It's The Humans, Stupid! - Dimitris Margaritoulis

mtn131p2.shtmlReproductive Data of Loggerhead Turtles in Laganas Bay, Zakynthos Island, Greece, 2003-2009 - D. Margaritoulis, A.F. Rees, C.J. Dean & T. Riggall

mtn131p7.shtmlNesting Characteristics at Samandağ and Extended Beaches, Turkey - Şükran Yalçın-Özdilek & Bektaş Sönmez

mtn131p9.shtmlLoggerhead Turtle Bycatch in the Gulf of Gabès, Tunisia: An Overview - Khaled Echwikhi, Imed Jribi, Abderrahmen Bouain & Mohamed Nejmeddine Bradai

mtn131p12.shtmlLoggerhead Turtles Nesting at Rethymno, Greece, Prefer the Aegean Sea as Their Main Foraging Area - Dimitris Margaritoulis & ALan F. Rees

mtn131p15.shtmlAssessing the Use of Turtle Excluder Devices (TEDs) in Bottom Trawlers in the Western Mediterranean Sea: A Preliminary Study - Sebastián Bitón Porsmoguer, Manuel Merchán Fornelino & Jesús Tomás

mtn131p16.shtmlSea Turtle Research and Rehabilitation Centre (DEKAMER), Dalyan, Mugla, Turkey - Yakup Kaska, Barbaros Şahin, Eyup Başkale, Fikret Sarı & Stefanie Owczarczak

mtn131p18.shtmlMediterranean Monk Seals Present an Ongoing Threat for Loggerhead Sea Turtles in Zakynthos - Dimitris Margaritoulis & Smaro Touliatou

mtn131p23.shtmlA Review of Potential Marine Habitats for Marine Turtles in Turkey - Ayşe Oruç, Umut Tural & Tuncay Cesur

mtn131p25.shtmlUnusual Stranding of Live, Small, Debilitated Loggerhead Turtles along the Northwestern Adriatic Coast - Carola Vallini, Silva Rubini, Luciano Tarricone, Cristina Mazziotti & Stefania Gaspari

mtn131p29.shtmlScalation Patterns of Loggerhead Turtles Nesting in Laganas Bay, Zakynthos Island, Greece - Dimitris Margaritoulis & George Chiras

mtn131p32.shtmlFethiye: Turkey's Turtles in Trouble! - Lily Venizelos & Liza Boura

mtn131p34.shtmlMonitoring an Important Sea Turtle Foraging Ground in Drini Bay, Albania - Michael White, Liza Boura & Lily Venizelos

mtn131p38.shtmlSatellite Tracking of Adult Green Sea Turtles from Turkey: A Long Distance Diary - Onur Türkecan & Sedat V. Yerli

mtn131p41.shtmlThe Presence of the Green Turtle, Chelonia mydas, in Italian Coastal Waters During the Last Two Decades - F. Bentivegna, M. Ciampa & S. Hochscheid

mtn131p46.shtmlMorphologic Characters of Albino Green Turtle (Chelonia mydas) Hatchlings on Samandağ Beach in Turkey - Bektaş Sönmez & Şükran Yalçın Özdilek

mtn131p48.shtmlThe Origin in Variability of Nesting Period of the Loggerhead Turtle (Caretta caretta) in the Kuriat Islands, Tunisia - Sonia Ben Hassine, Imed Jribi, Mohamed Nejmeddine Bradai, Abderrahmen Bouain & Marc Girondot


Editors: Editorial Board

Lisa M. Campbell
Nicholas School of the Environment
and Earth Sciences, Duke University
135 Duke Marine Lab Road
Beaufort, NC 28516 USA

Managing Editor:

Michael S. Coyne
SEATURTLE.ORG
1 Southampton Place
Durham, NC 27705 USA

Matthew H. Godfrey
NC Sea Turtle Project
NC Wildlife Resources Commission
1507 Ann St.
Beaufort, NC 28516 USA

Founding Editor:

Nicholas Mrosovsky
University of Toronto, Canada

Brendan J. Godley & Annette C. Broderick (Editors Emeriti)
George Balazs
Angela Formia
Colin Limpus
Nicholas J. Pilcher
Manjula Tiwari
Kartik Shanker
Jeanette Wyneken

This issue of the MTN was converted to HTML by ALan Rees

Acknowledgements:

Publication of this issue was made possible by donations from the following individuals: Holger Vetter, Ivan Cumpian, Anne Voigt and organisations: Conservation International, International Sea Turtle Society, IUCN - Marine Turtle Specialist Group, US National Marine Fisheries Service-Office of Protected Resources, Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council. The MTN-Online is produced and managed by Michael Coyne.

The opinions expressed herein are those of the individual authors and are not necessarily shared by the Editors, the Editorial Board, the University of Exeter, or any individuals or organizations providing financial support. Produced with assistance from:

NOAA WESTPAC MTSG Conservation International
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