Keywords
How to Cite
Abstract
Hawkes Bay site is one of the major favorable nesting sites for green turtles (Chelonia mydas) in Pakistan. Many environmental factors influence the nesting patterns of green turtles at this beach. The main objective of this study is to evaluate the importance of monitoring habitat of wildlife with the help of GIS and remote sensing. Seasonal influence on nesting pit density is quite noticeable on high resolution imageries. Pearson’s correlation coefficient analysis was used to highlight the strong relation of temperature and nesting pits. As a result of this research monitoring of spatio-temporal variation and impacts of temperature rise on nesting grounds observed.
References
Firdous F. Sea turtle education and conservation in Karachi, Pakistan. ASEAN Reviews Of Biodiversity And Environmental Conservation (ARBEC) 2001. http://www. arbec.com.my/sea-turtles/art5julysept01.htm
Khan MZ, Ghalib SA, Hussain B. Status and new nesting sites of sea turtles in Pakistan. Chelonian Conservation and Biology 2010; 9(1): 119-123. http://dx.doi.org/10.2744/CCB-0767.1
Groombridge B. IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals.IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK. (ed.) 1994.
Seminoff JA. (Southwest Fisheries Science Center, U.S.) 2004. Cheloniamydas. In: IUCN 2013. IUCN Red List of threatened species. version 2013; 2. . Downloaded on 21 May 2014.
Reference available from: http://www.ioseaturtles.org/ pom_detail.php?id=32. cited date: 26 May 2014.
Khan MZ. et al. Current status and distribution of reptiles of Sindh. Journal Of Basic And Applied Sciences 2012; 8: 26-34.
Retrieved from: http://learnwithshamu.com/animal-info/info-books/sea-turtle/habitat-&-distribution.html, dated: 26 May 2014.
IUCN Red list of threatened species Chelonia mydas 2013.
Minton SA. A contribution to the herpetology of West Pakistan. Bull Ahmer Mus Nat Hist 1966; 134: 127-84.
Salm R. Marine turtle management in Seychelles and Pakistan. Environmental Conservation 1976; 3(4): 267-268. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0376892900018993
Firdous F. Conservation of turtles at Hawkes bay and Sandspit beaches, Karachi. Proceedings of International Conference on Marine Sciences of the Arabian Sea 1988; American Institute of Biological Sciences, Washington, D.C; 217-222.
Firdous F, Asrar. Decline of marine turtle nesting populations in Pakistan. Marine Turtle News Letter 1999; 83: 13-14.
Qureshi MT. Sea turtles of Pakistan. Kartik Shankar and BC Choudhary: Marine turtles of the Indian sub-continent 2006; UNDP Universities Press, India; 217-224.
Mazaris AD, Koranaraki E, Matsinos YG, Margaritoulis D. Modeling the effect of sea surface temperature on sea turtle nesting activities by investigating seasonal trends. Natural Resource Modeling 2004; 17: 4.
Schroeder B, Murphy S. Population surveys (ground and aerial) on nesting beaches. research and management techniques for the conservation of sea turtles (K.L. Eckert, K.A. Bjorndal, F.A. Abreu-Grobois and M. Donnelly,eds.), IUCN/SSC Marine Turtle Specialist Group, Washington, DC 1999; 4: 45-55.
Bjorndal KA, Wetherall AJ, Bolten BA, Mortimer AJ. Twenty- six years of green turtle nesting at tortuguero. Costa rica: an encouraging trend, Cons. Biol 1999; 13: 126-134. http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1523-1739.1999.97329.x
Carr A, Carr HM. Modulated reproductive periodicity in chelonia. Ecology 1970; 51: 335-337. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1933675
Hays GC. The implications of variable remigration intervals for the assessment of population size in marine turtles. Journal of Theoretical Biology 2000; 206: 221-227. http://dx.doi.org/10.1006/jtbi.2000.2116
Fish MR. et al. Predicting The impact of sea-level rise on Caribbean sea turtle nesting habitat. Conservation Biology 2005; 19(2): 482-491. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1523-1739.2005.00146.x
Weishampel JF, Bagley DA, Ehrhart LM, Rodenbeck BL. Spatiotemporal patterns of annual sea turtle nesting behaviors along an East Central Florida beach. Biological Conservation 2003; 110: 295-303. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0006-3207(02)00232-X
Miller DJ. Reproduction in sea turtles.the biology of sea turtles (Lutz LP, Musick AJ, Eds). CRC Press.Boca Raton; Florida 1997.
Spotila JR, O’Connor MO, Paladino FV. Thermal biology of sea turtles.the biology of sea (Lutz LP, Musick AJ, Eds).CRC Press. Boca Raton; Florida 1997; 297-313.
Davenport J. Temperature and the life-history strategies of sea turtles. Journal of Thermal Biology 1997; 22: 479-488. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0306-4565(97)00066-1
Godley BJ, Broderick AC, Hays GC. Nesting of green turtles (Cheloniamydas) at Ascension Island, South Atlantic. Biological Conservation 2001; 97: 151-158. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0006-3207(00)00107-5
Stoneburner DL, Richardson JI. Observation on the role of temperature in loggerhead turtle nest site selection. Copeia 1981; 1: 238-241. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1444068
Wood DW, Bjorndal KA. Relation of temperature, moisture, salinity and slope to nest site selection in loggerhead sea turtles. Copeia 2000; 1: 119-128. http://dx.doi.org/10.1643/0045-8511(2000)2000[0119:ROTMSA
Reference available from URL: http://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov. cited date: 26 May 2014
Reference available from URL: http//learntech.uwe.ac.uk/da. cited date: 26 May 2014
Reference available from URL: http://askshamu.com/animal-info/info-books/sea-turtle/habitat-&-distribution.html. cited date: 26 May 2014
Lindsey NF Thermal determinants of nest site selection in loggerhead sea turtles, carrata carrata at Casey Key, Florida. Graduate dissertation, Scholar commons, University of South Florida 2012.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
Copyright (c) 2014 Farheen Khanum, Syed Jamil H. Kazmi, Saima Shaikh