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Northeast Brazil shows highest hawksbill turtle nesting density in the South Atlantic
2013; Inter-Research; Volume: 21; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.3354/esr00505
ISSN1863-5407
AutoresAJB Santos, Cláudio Bellini, DHG Vieira, LD Neto, Gilberto Corso,
Tópico(s)Ichthyology and Marine Biology
ResumoESR Endangered Species Research Contact the journal Facebook Twitter RSS Mailing List Subscribe to our mailing list via Mailchimp HomeLatest VolumeAbout the JournalEditorsSpecials ESR 21:25-32 (2013) - DOI: https://doi.org/10.3354/esr00505 Northeast Brazil shows highest hawksbill turtle nesting density in the South Atlantic A. J. B. Santos1,*, C. Bellini2, D. H. G. Vieira3, L. D. Neto3, G. Corso4 1Fundação Pró-TAMAR, Alameda do Boldró s/no,53990-000 Fernando de Noronha-PE, Brazil 2Projeto Tamar-ICMBio RN, CLBI-Setor Oeste, Av. Joaquim Patrício, 4000, Distrito Litoral-Pium, 59160-530 Parnamirim-RN, Brazil 3Fundação Pró-TAMAR, Ladeira do Madeiro s/no, Praia da Pipa, 591780-000 Tibau do Sul-RN, Brazil 4Departamento de Biofísica e Farmacologia, Centro de Biociências, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Campus Universitário, Lagoa Nova, 59072-970 Natal-RN, Brazil *Email: armando@tamar.org.br ABSTRACT: To date, hawksbill turtle Eretmochelys imbricata nesting in Brazil has been estimated by recording clutch numbers. To better address conservation assessments and more reliably estimate the number of females, the Projeto TAMAR-ICMBio initiated a mark and recapture program of nesting females to gather data on critical parameters such as clutch frequency and remigration interval. The study area on the southern coast of Rio Grande do Norte was divided into 2 data-recording efforts: index (IA) and protected (PA) areas. Overall, 243 nesting hawksbill turtles were tagged along 42 km of nesting beach; 153 of these were within the 4 km area of intensive tagging. We estimated a remigration interval of 2.1 yr and a clutch frequency of between 2.3 and 2.6 clutches per female. Furthermore, the number of active breeding females was estimated to be between 705 and 791. The average number of clutches per kilometer was 21.1 in the IA and 20.7 in the PA (although some sections were as high as 37.5 and 48.5 nests km-1, respectively). This represents the highest density of hawksbill clutches per kilometer found so far for the South Atlantic, and highlights the importance of southern Rio Grande do Norte for the conservation of the Critically Endangered hawksbill turtle. KEY WORDS: Brazil · Clutch frequency · Conservation · Eretmochelys imbricata · Remigration interval Full text in pdf format Supplementary material PreviousNextCite this article as: Santos AJB, Bellini C, Vieira DHG, Neto LD, Corso G (2013) Northeast Brazil shows highest hawksbill turtle nesting density in the South Atlantic. Endang Species Res 21:25-32. https://doi.org/10.3354/esr00505 Export citation RSS - Facebook - Tweet - linkedIn Cited by Published in ESR Vol. 21, No. 1. Online publication date: June 20, 2013 Print ISSN: 1863-5407; Online ISSN: 1613-4796 Copyright © 2013 Inter-Research.
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