Sea turtles are presently considered severely endangered species that are historically
threatened by many environmental factors. Recently, additional threats to sea turtles from …

The impact of a range of different threats has resulted in the listing of six out of seven sea
turtle species on the IUCN Red List of endangered species. Disease risk analysis (DRA) …

Nest protection through egg relocation from natural nests into protected hatcheries is a
common practice used at rookeries around the world to increase hatchling recruitment into …

This review of the green turtle provides the first comprehensive collation of biological data
for the species. While peer reviewed scientific publications are the most significant source of …

A newly described onygenalean fungus, Emydomyces testavorans, has been isolated from
ulcerative shell and skin lesions of freshwater aquatic chelonians. To investigate the shell …

Hatchery practices are pivotal to conservation success. In sea turtle hatcheries, reusing sand
is a norm, but it remains unclear whether such an approach increases the risk of Fusarium …

Many conservation programs consider translocation of turtle nests to hatcheries as a useful
technique. The repeated use of the same incubation substrate over several seasons in these …

The structure and diversity of microbial communities in wild vertebrate populations remain
poorly understood, but are expected to have important consequences for individual survival …

The endangered yellow-spotted river turtle (Podocnemis unifilis) has experienced a
dramatic population decline in the Ecuadorian Amazonia, mainly due to overexploitation of …

The aim of this study is to investigate the fungal diversity of green turtle nests and to examine
phylogenetic relationships among these isolates. During the nesting season, samples of …