Jeanne A Mortimer

Speciality

turtles

Expeditions

• BIOTA Turtle Monitoring Expedition
• Turtle monitoring and tagging expedition
• Friends of the Chagos Expedition
• Diego Garcia Turtle Monitoring
• OTEP Expedition

Publications

• Sea turtle populations and habitats in the Chagos Archipelago
• Sex steroid concentrations in immature hawksbill turtles (Eretmochelys imbricata) in the Chagos Archipelago
• Population genetic structure and developmental migrations of sea turtles in the Chagos Archipelago and adjacent regions inferred from mtDNA sequence variation.
• Sea Turtle populations of the Chagos Archipelago, British Indian Ocean Territory
• Confronting climate change in the Indian Ocean: a look at coral reefs and nesting beaches
• How numbers of nesting sea turtles can be overestimated by nearly a factor of two
• Male hatchling production in sea turtles from one of the world’s largest marine protected areas, the Chagos Archipelago
• Use of Long-Distance Migration Patterns of an Endangered Species to Inform Conservation Planning for the World’s Largest Marine Protected Area
• Assessment of the Conservation Status of the Leatherback Turtle in the Indian Ocean and South- East Asia
• Reefs and islands of the Chagos Archipelago, Indian Ocean: why it is the world’s largest no-take marine protected area

Datasets

• Distribution of mtDNA variants in the Indian Ocean (including Chagos)
• Sex steroid concentration in immature hawksbill turtles in the Chagos Archipelago
• Population and available suitable habitat estimates for green turtles (Chelonia mydas) and hawksbills turtles (Eretmochelys imbricata) in the Chagos Archipelago.

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