Keywords
Green turtles, loggerheads, mark recapture, barker models, survivorship, demography
Abstract
Loggerheads (Caretta caretta) are listed as Threatened and green turtles (Chelonia mydas) are listed as Endangered under the United States Endangered Species Act. While green turtle nest production in Florida has increased markedly in recent years, loggerhead nest production has followed a more tenuous path. Reasons for these differences are unknown. Limited demographic information is available for these species of conservation concern. I used Barker models, which incorporated mark-recapture, live-resight and dead recovery data, implemented in Program MARK. These models were used to estimate apparent survival for immature loggerhead (
Notes
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Graduation Date
2013
Semester
Spring
Advisor
Weishampel, John
Degree
Master of Science (M.S.)
College
College of Sciences
Department
Biology
Degree Program
Biology
Format
application/pdf
Identifier
CFE0004755
URL
http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/CFE0004755
Language
English
Release Date
May 2013
Length of Campus-only Access
None
Access Status
Masters Thesis (Open Access)
Subjects
Dissertations, Academic -- Sciences, Sciences -- Dissertations, Academic
STARS Citation
Sterner, Andrew, "Modeling Survival Of Immature Loggerheads (caretta Caretta) And Green Turtles (chelonia Mydas) From 10 Years Of Mark-recapture Data At The Florida Power And Light St. Lucie Plant" (2013). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 2581.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/etd/2581