may be more requirements. turtles when with cooler likely. Research migrating. temperatures, and in into the impacts the second, a shift in from this source the main nesting of disturbance beaches used. has shown Human-related resultant pressures may reductions in degrade or reduce clutch size. the availability of Either way, alternative suitable impacts on nesting/internesting populations habitat, or the would be productivity of significant if foraging grounds. unmanaged, The mobility and especially foraging ecology of disturbance marine turtles may during nesting enable them to that could force select alternative nesting females suitable habitat to relocate to localities to forage if sub-optimal necessary and nesting available. The actual locations. adaptive capacity of Evidence of marine turtles to basking these pressures is behaviour poorly understood. It ceasing after the is not known what introduction of the thresholds of tourism to Heron pressure may be if Island suggests marine turtles were marine turtles do forced to transition not adapt to to alternative nesting tourism or foraging localities associated if previous localities disturbance. were lost or degraded or were not productive enough to support provisioning.
may be more likely. Research into the impacts from this source of disturbance has shown resultant reductions in clutch size. Either way, impacts on populations would be significant if unmanaged, especially disturbance during nesting that could force nesting females to relocate to sub-optimal nesting locations. Evidence of basking behaviour ceasing after the introduction of tourism to Heron Island suggests marine turtles do not adapt to tourism associated disturbance. requirements. turtles when migrating. with cooler temperatures, and in the second, a shift in the main nesting beaches used. Human-related pressures may degrade or reduce the availability of alternative suitable nesting/internesting habitat, or the productivity of foraging grounds. The mobility and foraging ecology of marine turtles may enable them to select alternative suitable habitat localities to forage if necessary and available. The actual adaptive capacity of marine turtles to these pressures is poorly understood. It is not known what the thresholds of pressure may be if marine turtles were forced to transition to alternative nesting or foraging localities if previous localities were lost or degraded or were not productive enough to support provisioning.
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