Expeditions

BIOTA Turtle Monitoring Expedition

Field of study

Turtle monitoring, turtle nesting beach temperature and morphology

Funder(s)

British Indian Ocean Territory Administration (BIOTA)

Start

10/2013

End

/10/2013

Description

Turtle monitoring, turtle nesting beach temperature and morphology on Diego Garcia.

Expedition leader

Nicole Esteban

Expedition leader email

n.esteban@swansea.ac.uk

Members

• Jeanne Mortimer
• Nicole Esteban
• Graeme Hayes
• N Guzman
• Jacques-Olivier Jacques-Olivier Laloë

Publications

• Male hatchling production in sea turtles from one of the world’s largest marine protected areas, the Chagos Archipelago - 2016
• How numbers of nesting sea turtles can be overestimated by nearly a factor of two - 2017

Sites

• Diego Garcia