Environmental Impacts on Loggerhead Sea Turtle Nesting on Edisto Island, South Carolina

• Main Author: Goins, Faythe J.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: DigitalCommons@UMaine 2018
• Subjects: Loggerhead Sea Turtle; Marine Science; South Carolina; Environmental Impacts; Marine Biology; Botany Bay; Edisto; Northwest Atlantic
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/honors/331; https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/context/honors/article/1332/viewcontent/Goins__Faythe_Thesis_2018.pdf

The Northwest Atlantic population of loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta), listed as threatened on the US Endangered Species List, may be susceptible to climatic changes and monthly variation due to their slow generation time, temperature dependent sex determination, natal homing, and anthropoge...