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retrospective analysis of sea turtle nest depredation patterns at Canaveral National Seashore, Florida
| Title: | A retrospective analysis of sea turtle nest depredation patterns at Canaveral National Seashore, Florida. |
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| Name(s): |
Welicky, Rachel. Charles E. Schmidt College of Science Department of Biological Sciences |
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| Type of Resource: | text | |
| Genre: | Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation | |
| Date Issued: | 2010 | |
| Publisher: | Florida Atlantic University | |
| Physical Form: | electronic | |
| Extent: | ix, 44 p. : ill. | |
| Language(s): | English | |
| Summary: | Nest predation can significantly reduce hatchling recruitment in sea turtle populations. This study uses 20 years of data from Canaveral National Seashore, Florida, which has pristine and altered beaches. Chi-square tests were used to determine if secondary predation events were related to the nest's primary depredation event. To determine if human beach use and nest predation are spatially or temporally linked, we ranked human beach use and examined predation frequency across all screened and marked nests (n=40,441). Lastly, I quantified nest predation risk spatially and temporally. I found that primary predation increases the chance of a nest suffering subsequent predation. Primary and multiple predation events occurred with greater frequency in limited use areas and with lowest frequency in moderate use areas. Predation risk decreased by an average of 29.5% from 2000-2008. Nests deposited midseason were 9.8% more likely to be predated than nests deposited early or late. | |
| Identifier: | 649818035 (oclc), 2683130 (digitool), FADT2683130 (IID), fau:3488 (fedora) | |
| Note(s): |
by Rachel Welicky. Thesis (M.S.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2010. Includes bibliography. Electronic reproduction. Boca Raton, Fla., 2010. Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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| Subject(s): |
Predation (Biology) Wildlife managment -- Canaveral National Seashore (Fla.) Sea turtles -- Atlantic Coast (U.S.) Sea turtles -- Nests -- Canaveral National Seashore (Fla.) Canaveral National Seashore (Fla.) |
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| Persistent Link to This Record: | http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/2683130 | |
| Use and Reproduction: | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ | |
| Host Institution: | FAU |
